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ostilast Friday at 6:42 PM1 replyview on HN

"Note that I'm also an immigrant."

This sentence doesn't really help your statement, it just makes you a gatekeeper.


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kccqzylast Friday at 7:01 PM

Exactly. In liberal cities I have lived in, it is almost always the earlier immigrants that resent and denigrate the later immigrants. It's pure gatekeeping. Like "I suffered during the immigration process and therefore you have to suffer at least as much as I have, or it isn't fair." Or like "the recent immigrants aren't as hardworking as older ones and they don't deserve immigration."