• wise_pancake
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    3 months ago

    Famously the statue of Liberty says " Bring us your wealthy, your heterosexual whites, Your Christian elite yearning to breathe free"

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      3 months ago

      Hah, Dirty Blvd by Lou Reed:

      Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor - I’ll piss on 'em
      That’s what the Statue of Bigotry says
      Your poor huddled masses, let’s club 'em to death
      And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard

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        3 months ago

        It hurts to read this because the original poem is so beautiful.

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          Sadly I think the original poem has always been a lie. We’ve historically treated all immigrants like a subhuman species; black people, the Irish, and jews, in particular. (Antisemitism being frowned upon is a relatively new thing)