Here is an excellent example of the problem with Jessica Colotl’s, (the illegal immigrant student in trouble with the law) supporters, from the Atlanta Journal and Constitution’s Cynthia Tucker today:
We’re a recession-weary nation wrestling with a bout of brutal, racially-tinged nativism — seeking scapegoats for economic failure, unsettled by demographic upheaval, unable to cope with a flatter world.
In other words, no way can you that disagree with me have a valid point of view. Further, it is okay for me to project the words of a few on to the rest of you because you are mere simple minded racists.
With friends like Tucker, Colotl is in big trouble.
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She seems to be making the point that racism is behind the anti-immigrant furor these days. That’s not a huge stretch, but difficult to prove, since we don’t have large numbers of Norwegians crossing the border. People like to find scapegoats during tough economic times, and xzenophobia is on the rise, and there seems to be enough anger to make sensible solutions more difficult to devise and implement–witness John McCain abandoning his earlier positions. If you don’t want to discuss that in terms of ethnic bias, OK. I’m not sure it’s fair to say she’s calling everyone who disagrees with her a racist, though.
People can be racists folks, its not a crime. And how can people support ILLGALS? Do they also support rapists rights to rape children? I would shoot them all as being spies.