Comments | ursako: In which our author addresses the ridiculous phrase 'playing by the rules'.

ursako

In which our author addresses the ridiculous phrase 'playing by the rules'.

Mar 26, 2006 21:02

So, so so, due to work-related retardery, I don't get as much political news as I used to. It makes me deeply sad. Every once in a while, I manage to peer over niq's shoulder and catch sight of something interesting regarding, oh, say, my personal demesne, immigration. It's interesting to find so many people acting as if immigration is the new 'crime ( Read more... )

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shoez March 27 2006, 09:17:58 UTC

I think it's strong evidence of a big paradigm shift in America for people to denounce the non-citizen's attempt to follow the American dream. It seems kinda funny to me that our country was supposedly built by a bunch of outcasts who greeted the rest of the world(except blacks, native americans, chinese, etc.) with open arms, and yet people are pushing strong to isolate our country from our neighbors. The idea here seems to be "I'm going to take advantage of this great system of opportunity myself, and I've already been helped by my parents' trips through it, but I'll kill myself before I let a dirty wetback try it." Fucking hypocrites ( ... )

ursako March 27 2006, 19:16:58 UTC

The thing is, nativism is no new thing in American politics. The laws passed at the turn of the century to keep out Chinese, Japanese, the laws after World War II to keep out Eastern Europeans; we only ever played at throwing open our gates to the world.
That said, I'm pretty sentimental about the whole thing too. Bleeding-heart liberal and all that.

Frist is your friend... dkingsbury March 29 2006, 10:27:08 UTC

Throw open the doors! (but only for "high-skilled" applicants ( ... )

Re: Frist is your friend... ursako March 29 2006, 17:59:49 UTC

Honestly, I feel like there should be more of a focus on a path to LPR status and, eventually, citizenship for unskilled workers. (Being a pinko commy liberal wingnut, I will all too happily advocate things that are against the economic self-interest of Our Great Nation.)

Diversity Lottery neil_werewolf March 30 2006, 22:45:12 UTC

The math on the Diversity Lottery looks sort of odd. There are 6.9 million applicants, of which 50K are accepted, and 6.4 million are rejected? Is there a third option that applies to 450K people, or is the math wrong?

Nifty way to put the point, by the way.

Re: Diversity Lottery ursako April 1 2006, 17:27:27 UTC

The other 450K people are, how you say, 'disappeared'. For depopulation purposes. You probably don't want to ask too many questions about them.

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See, this happens every time I mock Nick for being a math major who can't count- it comes back to bite me when I'm trying to make a serious post. Thanks for pointing that out, though, and many props.