Re: The American 2016 Presidential Elections & The Ongoing American Saga
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If he has Irish ancestors or not, what does it matter? Is it something to be ashamed of? Why did you hijack this thread with such ignorance, anyway? It's ridiculous.
Well-- he HAD to. See, it's like this: When you're losing an argument because you haven't got anything meaningful to bring to the table, the surest way to side-track things is to call the opponent's ancestry into question. By implying that the opponent comes from less than pure stock-- and may in fact be on an inferior race-- you hope to get the discussion away from whatever you were losing on and into something else.
This may work on folk who live in places-- like Australia, the United States and New Zealand, just to name a few--where intermarriage between different people groups has probably happened if the person you're calling out because of ancestry has relatives who have been there long enough.
My ancestry contains Scottish and American Indian for sure. My father's people have been here long enough that I'm 6th generation American-- that gives a lot of time for mixing with somebody else. I only know "for sure" to my Grandfather/Grandmother on that side. My mother's side---- well, that's a bit of a question. She was adopted when she was 5, and pulling any actual family history was a bit of a project. I have what little I have from debatable sources-- my aunt never being among the most truthful of story-tellers.
Kinda fits though. This thread is about American politics, and as we all know candidates for the presidency are not usually found among the most truthful of story-tellers. I expect some whoppers to be told from both sides and all candidates before this is said and done.
Topic: The American 2016 Presidential Elections & The Ongoing American Saga (Read 347709 times)
