Originally Posted by hindsight2020

hey now, don't forget about us PR homeys too. Proud member of the "Nope, not 'born' here...nope, didn't 'immigrate' either, you're getting colder..." club. The mountain came to us, the progeny of the literal people those ghastly Insular Cases were written about 120 years ago. That was my great grandfather they were calling an ungovernable coconut head, and for whom extending American constitutional protections would be considered as moot as handing a chimp an alphabet book. Ah the SCOTUS... let me digress here before I drop my already feigned pretense of civility about the topic.


Recommend Daniel Immerwahr book on the macro topic: How to hide an Empire. It provides imo with some Anglo-digestible context to help the typical US "mainlander" understand blind spots wrt OCONUS history and cultures. Apologies for the drift; now back to our regular programming of the grey-collared help cosplaying airline CEO.