Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The fallacy of memes

The fallacy of memes:
"One of the memes that always gets under my craw and raises my ire is the half-assed stupid memes that have to do with immigration.
You know the one’s I’m talking about, featuring a picture or a cartoon of a Native American that delivers the message that if you don’t want ‘immigration’, then maybe you should consider what was ‘done’ to the Native Americans.
Stop it,
Stop pimping misinformation in order to foment hatred and resentment.
That’s all you’re doing, you aren’t being constructive or helpful or even the least bit informative.
First of all, I don’t know a single person who is against legal immigration. 
No one, of any political stripe; point that American out to me and I’ll show you a minority of one. What smart people are, is against unrestrained, untracked illegal immigration, crossing this country’s borders (we have them, Native Americans didn’t) without permission. 
And doing so is illegal. 
That makes the people who do so law breakers in the eyes of existing law, and it should remain that way.
You cannot have a welfare state (what America has become) and also have open borders.
This is inarguable, unless it is the purpose of said action to reduce the nation to poverty and eradicate its greatness.
Sadly, there are many who seem to want just that thing."

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