~Illegal immigration and steak~
I want to close the open doors and windows which allow uninvited neighbors and strangers to enter my house. I don't care if they clean my bathroom (a job I don't want to do), they're not invited and I don't want them to enter.
Is that hatred? If we concede, as we truly should, that by far and away the bulk of our uninvited illegal immigrants entering the U.S. are Mexican, does that make me racist specifically toward Mexicans?
I must ask you a question as a response;
Do you like a great steak? With the exception of our vegetarian friends, let's agree most of us are probably extremely fond of a good cut of steak, perfectly seasoned and cooked carefully to our tastes.
OK...Well, what if you're sitting in front of me, and I start THROWING stakes at you. One after another.
Initially, it might be funny! But I KEEP throwing them at you. It would inevitably become messy, and you could easily get hurt at any point; you would have to aggressively protect your face. And then, this guy beside me starts throwing stakes at you, too! And then this guy on the other side as well! You're having DOZENS of stakes thrown at you, one after another!
It would cease to be funny quite quickly, and you'd probably get extremely pissed-off. Most anybody would! So you yell out fiercely, "knock it off!"
... So, what? You don't like steak? You're PISSED OFF, so we must conclude you HATE steak! You have something AGAINST steak! You have some ISSUE with steak!
Of course not! You just don't like uncontrolled amounts of even something you love, being thrown at you from multiple directions, without any reason or logic or structure or predictability or legitimacy or respect or sanity!
That's what illegal immigration is. It has nothing to do with how one feels about Mexicans or any race. It has to do with how one feels about what is happening - What is actually happening. Mexicans (like any of us) are like steak; the bad ones are a shame and the great ones are absolutely fantastic. Illegal immigration is an entirely different issue. It is a violation and an insult and madness, and must stop.
As a matter of race and heritage, I am absolutely no better whatsoever than any Mexican I've ever met. That doesn't mean I can't despise the chaos of our bleeding border.
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