The Zapato’s On the Other Foot

A deliciously ironic story from the Associated Piss via the Seattle Pre-Intelligencer, with a hat-tip to Right Wing News.

It was some time ago that United Auto Workers union executives, who bullied their way into ownership of General Motors and Chrysler, suddenly found themselves in the position of negotiating a new labor contract with their own union members throwing them out of the meeting because they demanded a salary cut.

That was one of the sweetest moments in the history of the left-right war in America. A bunch of thug leftists who made careers out of vilifying auto executives now found themselves with the shoe on the other foot, and lo and behold! They faced exactly the same kind of bullying and intimidation they so freely handed out. Turnabout’s fair play.

Now, the irony has spread to one of our nation’s minoooooorities – illegal alien Mexican farm workers in California’s Salinas Valley.

“Longtime residents,” as only willfully blind liberal reporters could call them, are up in arms as a huge new influx of indigenous Mexicans has flooded the region.

But these are not average, Spanish-speaking Mexicans; they are mestizos – descendants of the ancient Indian civilizations that existed before Hernándo Cortez showed up. And to hear these longtime illegal aliens tell it, they are some rowdy, dirty and unwelcome fellow Mexicans.

This story carries every element of what Americans have screamed from the rooftops of their Arizona ranches and Texas border towns since Ted Kennedy undermined border security with his Immigration Act of 1965 – except that the oppressed victims are now illegal aliens themselves, rather than American citizens.

“THEY SPEAK THEIR OWN LANGUAGES, not Spanish, THEY KEEP THEIR OWN CUSTOMS, such as arranged marriages, and, despite a longstanding tradition of sanctuary and tolerance in Greenfield, THEY REMAIN SEPARATE,” gasps Associated Piss reporter Gosia Vozniacka.

The hell, you say!

“In a town FEELING HEAVILY PRESSURED BY THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND GANG ACTIVITY, the influx of Oaxacans and their lack of understanding of U.S. customs has led to an ethnic clash.”

Get right out of town!

The only thing more ironic that the story itself is the author’s complete lack of awareness as to how it resembles the cries of Americans that the media has ignored for nearly fifty years.

“Rachel Ortiz became so displeased with the new migrants that, after more than five decades in Greenfield, she left her cul-de-sac home and moved to Salinas, 30 miles away,” it continues. “Ortiz and others in newly-formed community groups COMPLAINED THAT THE OAXACAN FAMILIES CLUSTERED IN OVERCROWDED APARTMENTS AND GARAGES, THREW TRASH INTO THE STREETS, THRONGED CITY PARKS, HELD LOUD PARTIES. SOME URINATED IN PUBLIC AND WERE INVOLVED IN BREAK-INS.”

No kidding?

“The new migrants RUINED THE TOWN FINANCIALLY, ‘DESTROYED’ ITS SCHOOL SYSTEM, CAUSED VIOLENT CRIMES AND WERE PART OF GANGS, which are pervasive in the Salinas Valley. The migrants, ‘invaders from the south,’ SHOULD BE DEPORTED.”

Please excuse me while I feel not one drop of sympathy.

Now here is the kicker of kickers:

“THE COMMUNITY GROUPS WERE, IN TURN, LABELED ‘RACIST’ BY THE PRESS AND MIGRANT LEADERS.

“An unfair label, Ortiz said, considering members of Beautify Greenfield are mostly Mexican-American. THE GROUP WAS NOT AGAINST OAXACANS PER SE, BUT JUST WANTED TO GET RID OF BLIGHT AND CRIME.“

Well, well, WELL!

You just can’t make this kind of thing up, ladies and gentlemen.

Mexicans – who are presumed to know nothing of class, race or sex bigotry because their entire nation is poor – are turning on other Mexicans because they don’t like their own racial minorities.

Mexicans – who are supposed to be unconcerned about wealth, totally selfless in their concern for their fellowman, family- and culture-oriented to a tee – are suddenly turning on their own countrymen because their community and individual livelihoods are threatened.

Mexicans – who are supposed to be universally hard-working, morally upright people with traditional family values, are threatening other Mexicans with drugs, alcohol abuse, loud parties, gang violence and neighborhood nuisances.

And in an effort to put a stop to it, one group of illegal aliens are leveling at another group of illegal aliens EVERY single charge that American citizens have been making against illegal immigrants for FIFTY years, and the liberal media is lapping it up and reporting it as though no one notices how utterly absurd they sound.

As a lawful immigrant and naturalized US citizen, I have only one thing to say to Mexicans being harassed by their fellow Mexicans:

“You really need to be more sensitive and accepting. After all … all these people want is a better life.”

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