Complementing Stewart Lee’s classic demolition of xenophobia (also a meditation on nothingness!), this exchange (pointed out by @SabrinaMahfouz) also deserves a wide audience:

Among the endless idiocies of the horrifying Orange Baby was this, in February 2024:

“We have languages coming into our country … they have languages that nobody in this country has ever heard of. It’s a horrible thing” *

—another comment that might have been more appropriate from the lips of Native Americans confronted by early waves of invaders “settlers”.

This clip is so convincing that its sarcasm eludes some viewers (“My ancestors stole that land fair and square—and if these Native Americans don’t like it, they can go back to where they came from”):

For Tang-dynasty xenophobia, see They come over ‘ere… For Navajo ceremonial and musical culture, click here, part of a series.

* His own language being largely incomprehensible, alternative transcriptions have been proposed:

cause everybody I speak to says they’re horrible, there’s nobody can explain to me how
allowing millions of people from places unknown, from countries unknown, who don’t speak languages, we have languages coming into our country, we have nobody that even speaks those languages. They’re—they’re truly foreign languages, nobody speaks them.