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A Democratic Reader
Wonders If He’s Alone
A Reader Says We Shouldn’t Be Called “Anti-Immigration.”
From: Fred Fries
Your excellent piece
on the
morons at the WSJ says,
"Where there's a will, there's a way to sue in America.
So it was probably inevitable that the anti-immigrant
political right [Yawn,
usual cheap smear. We’re actually anti-immigration.
There’s a difference. But the WSJ Edit Page is
manifestly part of the anti-American political right.]
would join with...”
Must Vdare.com
and like-minded folk endure being wrongly called
"anti-immigration"? We're not "anti-immigration," only
"anti-excessive immigration."
Advocating the return of the
pre-1965 immigration policy
isn't anti-immigration.
It's pro-immigration and the only way to be
pro-immigration, since immigration by definition
presupposes distinct countries, whose distinctness it
risks destroying if permitted to continue at wildly
excessive levels.
Is the imposition of bag limits on hunters an
anti-hunting measure, or of whale-fishery catch limits
an anti-whale measure? On the contrary, they are the
only possible pro-hunting and pro-whale-fishery
policies.
Imposing reasonable limits on immigration - the pre-1965
policy for example - would be pro-immigration and the
only possible pro-immigration policy. There'll be no
immigration once the world's been
transformed into one big Mexico or China - just
populations shifting about within
one big country.
Can our side shake the "anti-immigration" label? (Or
should that be the "anti-immigration libel"?) We're not
anti-immigration -- the other side is.
Peter Brimelow sighs
Of course, this is true. It’s a point the heroically
reasonable Roy Beck over at NumbersUSA
makes
all the time, and he’s actually been able to get
newspapers to stop calling him “anti-immigration.” Roy
wants NumbersUSA to be called “an immigration-reduction
organization;” I prefer the term “immigration reform.”
I do object strongly to being called “anti-immigrant,”
but, maybe it’s because I’m an immigrant myself that I
don’t usually bother about being called
“anti-immigration.” Or maybe I’m just insensitive. Or
tired of running.
May 21, 2002
