Season of Hate, Revisted
In Tropic of Chaos by Christain Parenti, chapter 15 discusses the ways in which an armed lifeboat approach to immigration and climate change is manifested within America. Parenti specifically touches on the anti-immigrant sentiments that extremist right-wing individuals hold toward Latinx individuals who come to this country looking for a better life. The author argues that at its core, hatred towards immigrants is largely based around "...very much a war of ideas" (Parenti, 231). This chapter also spoke on how a majority of Americans at the time the book was written were straight-up xenophobic towards immigrants in the country, 67 percent of Americans surveyed at the time said that they felt it was fine for the police to arrest anyone who had no way to prove legal citizenship, and 62 percent felt it was ok for the police to target individuals for questioning based off of profiling them as being illegal immigrants (Parenti, 232). This specific chapter also focused on ...