All Six of America’s 2016 Nobel Prize Winners Are Immigrants [Aggregation Fallacy]
11th October 2016
Typical ‘some immigrants are awesome so open up the borders!’ non-sequitur thumbsucker. Nobody objects to potential Nobel-prize winners coming into the United States. We’ll take all the advanced-degree-holding STEM workers we can get. (Can you say ‘H-1B Visa’? I’m sure you can. Certainly Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg can.)
Unmentioned: Not one of these guys hired a ‘coyote’ to sneak him across the border so that he could take lawn-care day-labor jobs and send money ‘back home’.
The Identity Politics movement has gotten people trained to think that if you can find a collective noun to describe a group of people, it thereby converts all of those people into exactly identical clones of each other … AND the typical exemplar of that group is whichever one feeds the Narrative about that group.