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Hyphenated-Americans

Posted on 11/1/19 at 8:39 am
Posted by Frankenstein Vol
Member since Oct 2019
707 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 8:39 am
I am in full agreement with Teddy Roosevelt.

If you feel the need to point out that you are a Shithole-American. Maybe you need to go back to the shithole you are so proud of claiming.

Either you are an American or you are not. There is no room for a hyphen.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all ... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic ... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else. - Teddy Roosevelt

Posted by mahdragonz
Member since Jun 2013
6932 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 8:41 am to
Italian-Americans ruining it for every one.
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
78362 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 8:42 am to
The hyphen is useful as a descriptive but absolutely abhorrent as an identity. We are Americans.
Posted by Homesick Tiger
Greenbrier, AR
Member since Nov 2006
54202 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 8:45 am to
I told my fiance there wasn't going to be any - between her last name and my last name if she wanted to marry me. I'm old school.
Posted by Jorts R Us
Member since Aug 2013
14787 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 8:56 am to
I tend to agree but you can't have it both ways. You can't decry the use of hyphens but tell people you disagree with to go back to their country.
Posted by Mickey Goldmill
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2010
23024 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 9:11 am to
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I told my fiance there wasn't going to be any - between her last name and my last name if she wanted to marry me. I'm old school.



You sound like a real winner
Posted by Frankenstein Vol
Member since Oct 2019
707 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 9:30 am to
quote:

You can't decry the use of hyphens but tell people you disagree with to go back to their country.

Yes, I can.

Go back to wherever it is you place before America.

(Your shithole here)-American. Go back to the shithole that is first in your heart.
Posted by Jorts R Us
Member since Aug 2013
14787 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 9:32 am to
quote:

Yes, I can.

Go back to wherever it is you place before America.

(Your shithole here)-American. Go back to the shithole that is first in your heart.


Then don't bitch when people hold on to the hyphenated descriptors.
Posted by Frankenstein Vol
Member since Oct 2019
707 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 9:32 am to
Oh, I've hurt some pussy-arse admins feelings. Must be a Shitholer-American.

Anchoring threads.

Here, you butthurt, little bitch
Posted by Frankenstein Vol
Member since Oct 2019
707 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 9:43 am to
quote:


Then don't bitch when people hold on to the hyphenated descriptors.

You're not even making sense.

That's the whole point. You want to hold onto to the hyphen? Go back.
Posted by Jorts R Us
Member since Aug 2013
14787 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 9:49 am to
quote:

You're not even making sense.

That's the whole point. You want to hold onto to the hyphen? Go back.


My point is that hyphen use is encouraged when background is used as a means of attack. If you want people to think of themselves as Americans, don't treat them unlike other Americans.
This post was edited on 11/1/19 at 9:51 am
Posted by Frankenstein Vol
Member since Oct 2019
707 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 9:57 am to
quote:

If you want people to think of themselves as Americans, don't treat them unlike other Americans.

Then call yourself an AMERICAN...not "I'm a Shithole-American"..No, cocksucker, you're a shitholer. No American in it.
Posted by Jorts R Us
Member since Aug 2013
14787 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 10:08 am to
quote:

Then call yourself an AMERICAN...not "I'm a Shithole-American"..No, cocksucker, you're a shitholer. No American in it.


Now we're getting into the chicken and egg argument.
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
57152 posts
Posted on 11/1/19 at 12:10 pm to
quote:

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic ...


Too Eurocentric. No Asian-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Klingon-Americans, Martian-Americans, African-Americans, blah, blah, blah, so we must discount everything TR said in that statement.
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