I’m sorry, but I don’t buy the “liberals made me racist,” framing of the fascism problem. It’s “look what you made me do,” politics, it excuses reactionary bigotry as understandable if there’s a “crisis.” I’m not trying to paint everyone who disagrees with me as evil, I’m saying that focusing on the legality or illegality of someone’s en…
I’m sorry, but I don’t buy the “liberals made me racist,” framing of the fascism problem. It’s “look what you made me do,” politics, it excuses reactionary bigotry as understandable if there’s a “crisis.” I’m not trying to paint everyone who disagrees with me as evil, I’m saying that focusing on the legality or illegality of someone’s entry into this country is doing the fascists job for them by signaling that it is ok to consider immigrants a threat. Because they are CRIMINALS. They BROKE THE LAW! And we can’t just LET people break the LAW!
We don’t get to choose what laws we obey, but we do have a choice in what laws we ENFORCE and how we do so, as well as the rhetoric we deploy in support of those laws.
I’m sorry, but I don’t buy the “liberals made me racist,” framing of the fascism problem. It’s “look what you made me do,” politics, it excuses reactionary bigotry as understandable if there’s a “crisis.” I’m not trying to paint everyone who disagrees with me as evil, I’m saying that focusing on the legality or illegality of someone’s entry into this country is doing the fascists job for them by signaling that it is ok to consider immigrants a threat. Because they are CRIMINALS. They BROKE THE LAW! And we can’t just LET people break the LAW!
We don’t get to choose what laws we obey, but we do have a choice in what laws we ENFORCE and how we do so, as well as the rhetoric we deploy in support of those laws.
That's okay, I had no expectation of convincing you of anything. You're not buying it has no bearing on whether it's right or wrong.