Wednesday, March 26, 2008

A very disgruntled reader calls me out

It hurt to read this:

Your [sic] so full of yourself you don't realize your [sic] guilty of the same things you accuse Craig Bidle [sic again] of. First you claim he took quotes out of context but you seam [si-- aw, nevermind] to forget to include the context yourself. You take his statements out of context.

But I provide links so readers can check for themselves if I misrepresented the original argument.

You do not realize that Bidle is correct about the racism of anti-immigration nativists.

You're right. I don't. And I never will.

You don't even offer any kind of rebutal to his, very correct, statement about nativists and Nazis.

I assume you're referring to The ideology of Open Borders, which included this quote from Mr. Biddle:

If by “We have a right to our culture” opponents of immigration are speaking of a right to preserve the racial makeup of their culture, then what they seek is not to protect American culture but to “achieve” something on the order of Nazi culture. Nothing more need be said about that.


That's nothing but guilt by association. The Southern Poverty Law Center gets away with this sort of thing all the time. It's sloppy argumentation -- especially for a so-called apostle of Reason. (And speaking of sloppy argumentation, notice that Biddle seems to think that American culture can be preserved without preserving our traditional ethnic make-up.)

Bottom line: you can't equate border security activists with Nazis. There's nothing totalitarian or genocidal about wanting to preserve your country's traditional demographics. For example, here's a well-known politician arguing that immigration reform will not alter America's racial composition:

“First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same… Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset…. Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia….


Do you think that politician was a Nazi because he apparently agreed that it's desirable to avoid a demographic revolution? If so, you're wrong -- that's Senator Edward Kennedy defending the 1965 Immigration Act -- which, it turns out, DID result in a demographic revolution.

Which is why we don't trust those who assure us that if we'll just agree to another amnesty for illegal alien invaders, they'll finally get serious about border security.

2 Comments:

At March 26, 2008 9:36 PM , Blogger damoncrowe said...

What is with all of the Nazi and neo-Nazi manure? Does anyone else find it odd that even though we are advocating a return to a Constitutional Republic, while the rest of America is begging for a imperialistic dictatorship WE are the Nazis? I guess Hitler was a Confederate too? (Scratching my head.)
I loved the Kennedy quote.

 
At March 27, 2008 10:09 AM , Blogger Michael Tuggle said...

Like any other bully, they use whatever works on us. People these days are frightened silly that someone's going to call them a bad name.

When a small-government libertarian like Ron Paul can be smeared as a Nazi, you know we're living in Wonderland, where words mean whatever people want them to mean.

 

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