RE: Your thoughts on the protests
November 10, 2016 at 6:42 pm
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2016 at 6:43 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(November 10, 2016 at 5:53 pm)Irrational Wrote:(November 10, 2016 at 5:51 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: No I would not. Nor did I.
It is not racist for a sovereign nation to physically secure its borders.
It is not racist to escort foreign nationals who enter a country illegally back to the countries of which they are citizens.
It is not racist to deny foreign nationals social services available to native or naturalized citizens.
It is not racist to exclude foreign nationals from participating in the political affairs of their host nation.
It is not racist to restrict immigration to skilled and talented applicant who can positively contribute to society.
It is not racist to limit the number of legal immigrants to that which can be reasonably assimilated.
It is not racist to stop people ideologically opposed to a country's principles of governance from entering that country.
It is not racist to deport foreign nationals that have committed crime back to the countries of which they are citizens.
No, sorry, but there is implicit racism in advocating for at least some of what's on the list.
Adding the qualifier "implicit" can be misleading. If you mean that some of those policies would disproportionately affect some demographic groups then you are correct. Effective immigration policies will always affect the populations of neighboring countries more than the populations of distant ones. That does not make them essentially racist. The question is not whether or not there are disparate effects; but rather, if those disparate effects result from fairly or unfairly applied policies.
