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Is This Anti-Mexican?

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Other Politics
Posted on Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 07:11:14 PM EST
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Digby and many others have written about this TNR article about the National Review cruise. I was struck by this excerpt:

D'Souza summarizes the prevailing sentiment by unveiling what he modestly calls "D'Souza's law of immigration": An immigrant's quality is "proportional to the distance traveled to get to the United States." In other words: Asians trump Latinos.

Being an Indian immigrant, who justified bin Laden and Al Qaida by saying:

Muslims must rise up in defensive jihad against America because their religion and their values are under attack. This aspect of Bin Laden’s critique has been totally ignored, and it’s one that resonates with a lot of traditional Muslims and traditionally people around the world . . .

I think maybe D'Souza might want to be more careful about that. As Jane Galt has pointed out, no Mexicans have perpetrated terrorism in the United States. It was folks from far away, some from near where D'Souza's people came from.

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    D'Souza's hypothesis (none / 0) (#1)
    by diogenes on Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 08:26:33 PM EST
    It looks to me like he made a hypothesis, and some social scientist ought to be able to test it and report on the results without fear of being branded a racist if the results go the wrong way.  If he's wrong, then prove him wrong.
    Jane Galt's apparent argument, that some small number of islamic immigrants from distant countries perpetrated terrorism, doesn't really pertain to the human qualities of millions of immigrants.

    Are you really suggesting (none / 0) (#2)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 08:29:12 PM EST
    racial profiling for immigration purposes?

    Did you go on the cruise?

    I do have to laugh when you say whether someone is a terrorist or not has little to do with their human qualities.

    So this immigration debate is not a security issue? Tell that to your GOP friends please.

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    Canada (none / 0) (#3)
    by glatz on Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 09:25:47 PM EST
    Are does D'Souza's hypothesis also apply to our friendly neighbors to the north. As I recall this is truly the border porous to terrorists.

    Daily Show: What Can Brown Do For You? (none / 0) (#4)
    by Molly Bloom on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 07:53:52 AM EST
    John: Aasif, obviously... not to get personal, but you yourself were not born here. You're, you're
    Aasif: Brown?
    John: Well I was going to suggest, uh...
    Aasif: Brown. It's fine John, I know I'm brown. But I'm from India, I'm tech support/cardiologist brown, not dishwasher/los angeles parking attendant brown. And I say that with no disrespect
    -
    Aasif (while nodding): This bill has nothing to do with the fact that these immigrants are Mexicans
    John: Aasif... You're nodding.
    Aasif: It's a nervous tick, John. Mexicans make me nervous.

    I think this Daily Show quote sums it up nicely.



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