[lit-ideas] Re: reforming immigration
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:29:32 +0100
EY> By
EY> definition, it cannot be clear thinking, since
EY> Krugman refuses to examine the basis of his
EY> convictions.
I disagree. But perhaps Krugman should have been
dishonest and cut all of the words below before "we"
> If people like me are going to respond
effectively to anti-immigrant
> demagogues, we have to acknowledge those facts.
I'm, like Krugmann, in theory inviolably biassed towards
immigration. But rather than say "**** off I'm pro-immigration"
I acknowledge such facts as baying anti-immigrant
demagogues proffer and (attempt to) counter their fictions.
That's politics.
His bias is inviolate. In effect, it
> is no different than Karl Rove telling some flack,
> "This is how we are going to spin the Immigration
> issue." This is strategy, not clear thinking.
Oh yes it is different from spin. Let's say someone here tells me
3 million Mexicans cross the border every day, rape half the women
in California, and live off welfare benefits denied to US citizens. Let's
say I tell them what the actual facts are. That's spin? No.
(I don't get your distinction between strategy and clear thinking.)
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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