us vs them or US with Them with respect

 I have been busy with family stuff here, so only had time to scan the news, and not time to comment on it.

But a lot of it seems to be biased: It assumes the elites should rule the world, and it sees the upper middle class culture of the west as the norm.

One longs to say: Reality check.

Quick. Is this guy merely an examplevof freedom  of speech or is he a domestic terrorist? 

backstory here.

so why are parents dissenting at a public meeting being threatened that they could be arrested as terrorists?

It is one thing to arrest a father very very angry over the school whose gender policies let a boy into the girls restroom then coveres up the sexual assault of his daughter in the school...but the real aim of this policy appears to be to silence dissent over the school curriculum... as in the tweet insisting that experts, not parents, need to devise the school curriculum.

But teaching Marxism and Gender theory to children is the same as teaching them a religion: one whose rules negate the rules of the family's culture and religion.

Essentially, it is teaching a secular religion to students that is openly anti traditional religion. And silencing those who object. 

This is not a new problem, you know:

The reason for the Catholic school system was that Protestantism (and anti Catholic bias in history) and the King James Bible was taught in public schools.

Another problem that people object to is the rewriting of history. BLM bias in history to teach only the negative aspects of western history. But by ignoring the other part of American history, it distorts history.

Any objection means you are an evil racist.

Which brings us to similar fight is going on about immigration.

I support immigration, but think it needs more regulation to stop the exploitation of the chaos by drug and sex traffickers. And my family love the country. So what is behind opposition to what is essentially unregulated immigration?

in one word. JOBS.

 it isn't purely racism to oppose open immigration: Immigrants will take the jobs that otherwise would go to American born poor whites or poor blacks. So it is essentially an economic problem, being made worse because of unemployment due to the Covid shutdowns.

Make more jobs, and the problem will not go away but will settle down slowly.

So who is helping to resettle and educate the immigrants in the massive flood due to Biden's lax border policies?

Not much reporting, because I suspect much of it is being done by churches and families.

 Is anyone reporting on this, outside of the rabid anti immigrant anti Catholic right wing press? 

Catholics (and yes, other religious groups like the Jews) have been helping immigrants and other resettle and integrate into American society for over 180 years by social welfare and education work.

Assimilation and integration takes time, and the aim is not to hate your home country but to accept the culture of the new one: and in American culture, this means tolerating others who disagree with you.

Nothing is new under the sun: this film is about the Irish, but the director admits he saw in it the story of his Italian family.

so the danger of groups fighting other groups who they see as the enemy is a real danger: and when some push this meme to get popularity or ratings, it is wrong, be it MSNBC or Trumpieboy.

So who is trying to stop the incipient civil war that some thoughtful scholars are worried about in the USA?

Maybe be a peacemaker, and start by remembering not the wrongs of history but the heroes who tried to help normal people build a comfortable life despite prejudice based on racial, ethnic, cultural, or economic differences.

Trivia: Bishop Healey, an African American, worked tirelessly for the civil rights of the Irish immigrants, and presumably the poor Canucks in New England, and Mother Drexel  a debutant and distant relative of Jackie Kennedy, sponsored schools for black and AmerIndian minorities (I spotted her portrait is on a mural in the Osage Nation Council meeting room).

I should ask my son about what is going on in the USA: but my son is an immigrant as is his wife, and his church works with Haitian and Central American immigrants to help them navigate the immigration laws. 1918 article about churches and immigrants. 

Which brings us to another item that is rarely seen in the media:  The importance of the family.

Most immigrants come from traditional, conservative cultures where the family is the first source of help in times of trouble...

this is why the gender ideology is a real problem for them.

It is so bad that Pope Francis has condemned it as an attack on the family... and indeed is seen by some of it's instigators as a way to get rid of the "patriarchal" family, which they hate.

Yet it is the family that allows people to prosper in times of trouble. 

That is why immigrants tend to move to areas where they have family, friends, or people from their own culture.

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but the trick is not rejecting your culture, but to learn to respect the culture of others:  find what you have in common, while respecting your differences.