Kannafoot, the Hegelian Dialectic, and a Muttdog Immigrant (me)

From Kannafoot:

Hating immigrants is an American tradition.  It would be impossible to find a period where an immigration wave was not hated.  That goes all the way back to the early 1600s!

Those damn Quakers are ruining the colonies... Quakers?

You mean the Baptists... 

Then, of course, we get to the early days under Adams and have the anti-Chinese Alien and Sedition Acts.

Follow it forward and you have hatred of the Irish, the Italians, the Germans, the Poles, now Hispanics. 

It goes on and on. I'm not sure what creates xenophobia, but it has definitely been in our culture since the Mayflower.

Note:  formatting added to improve readability.  Not a word has been changed.

Reference:  the discussion arose based on the Know Nothing Party of the 1840's-1850's which was strongly-opposed to Irish and German immigration and was strongly anti-Catholic.  (WIKI:  Know Nothing)

Rebuttal from the Socialist Left (note: this is not a debate but the pursuit of truth):

For me the sad truth isn't so much these events took place but rather because people have failed to learn basics about American history and are easy prey for what looks more and more to me a deliberate and hugely dangerous play on the Hegelian Dialectic insofar as the worse certain candidates can make Syrians look, the greater the legitimacy of their vicious means to solve the problem.

The Hegelian Dialectic gives me another perspective on the sixties and I was not consciously aware of it but I'm sure it came to me somewhere and I did not join SDS nor did I consider joining the Weathermen. From my current perspective, I see now they were playing precisely to the needs of a state which will crush dissident thinking, something the state usually feels is mandatory during any conflict.

We have another mutual friend who was proud of his participation in SDS and I was somewhat questioning (silently) of the consequence of that but, looking back at the time from the perspective of that Hegelian Dialectic, I'm all the more sure the SDS and Weathermen were too extreme to be helpful to the cause.

And that's the conundrum: if people cannot be swayed by reason then what alternative is there to violence to demonstrate the significance of the point. In my view, we need to find an answer to that before Trump and Carson get them so frothy as to take them beyond any chance of reason.