Immigrant Bashing By Immigrants
9th November 2010
Identity politics doesn’t always lead to clear-cut solutions.
If this election proves anything, it is that immigrant bashing is not a white-only sport. Non-whites can play it just as well. Advocates of liberal immigration policies, therefore, can’t count on the coming end of white domination to automatically propel this country in their direction. They have to keep making their case to the American public regardless of its hue—brown, black, or Avatar blue.
Of course, this being an article in tReason magazine, the assumption here is that More Immigrants Is Good, Restrictionism Is Bad. (When you don’t like a viewpoint, cast it into an ‘-ism’ and all will feel good about trashing it.) But it has some interesting information carried along with the political posturing, sort of by accident.