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April 29, 2010
The Invisible Hand of the Race Hustlers
The unseen third party in the Arizona immigration debate is "positive discrimination."Asking for people to be actually subject to the same criteria is particularly objectionable because it undermine an implicit public policy goal of giving"disadvantaged" groups a leg up by making things easier for them. It's not discrimination that's bad, but the kind of discrimination that matters. In this world, it is immoral to ask a "poor migrant" to produce papers. That's "Nazism" but a "rich migrant" of the same color is not only subjected to the "papers please" requirement but asked to post bonds, show property ownership, exhibit bank accounts, subject himself to security clearances, health checks and attend interviews with a nameless consular official sitting behind an armored glass. And then if he does all that, he can be asked to wait. And wait.... -- Belmont Club » As American as Apple Pie
Posted by Vanderleun at April 29, 2010 5:36 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.