Your Morning Zadie
For Wednesday, September 4th, 2024
Week 76 of our regular morning feature here at Friedman of the Plains Worldwide in which we highlight the great words and works of great men and women, as well as those who are insufferable, delusional, and even fictional.
This Week Zadie Smith
“But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance. ”
Zadie's right on. It's impossible for the bigots to put themselves in the position of immigrants. Empathy doesn't exist for the so-called "real Americans", who are themselves, in the great majority, descendants of...wait for it...immigrants.
right there