Give me a better argument...
Submitted by LynnS on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 7:34pm.

...than "illegal immigrants must be watching it." Because the arguments you're using have all been used before against immigrant minority populations.

Catholic schools, Yiddish newspapers, Chinatowns--they were all anti-American dens of iniquity where lazy, disease-harboring immigrants who got here who-knows-how spurned their new nation's tongue and culture, refusing to assimilate.

Those arguments were made less than a hundred years ago. And yet arguing that those institutions are "anti-American" today would make you look pretty damn stupid.

I wonder how these current arguments are going to look a hundred years from now?

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Lynn Siprelle * Fairy Blogmother

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