People unclear on the concept....

[violachic]

Find The Illegal Immigrant- not racist, they say!

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[barkis.livejournal.com]

oh my dear lord.

people are becoming bigger and bigger fucks about this.

[orpheus42.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say it's "racist", per se.

I wouldn't exactly endorse it either, but I wouldn't call it racist. Though that doesn't mean a number of people's reasons for participating aren't racist.

[orpheus42.livejournal.com]

Well, as their nice little society crumbles around them they have to have SOMETHING to latch onto. And it's easier (and safer, in terms of legal fees) to criticize comparatively powerless illegal immigrants instead of corporate robber barons.

[madresal.livejournal.com]

I read that article earlier today. It's pretty messed up.

[sabotabby]

Did you see the Facebook page? They had an extremely racist (not to mention stupid) cartoon up.

Anyway, I don't see how discriminating against people on the basis of which side of an imaginary line they were born on isn't racist.

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

That's straight up bullshit.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Its total bullshit. I can't believe the university hasn't condemned it by now. Its incredible.

[orpheus42.livejournal.com]

no, I didn't see the facebook page, that may change my analysis a bit. But being discriminatory based on "which side of an imaginary line they were born on" is not, by definition, racist. It's nationalist, which is a different sort of prejudicial heresy. Still, mind you, a prejudicial heresy, but different from racism per se.

Not to be a fly in the ointment, but....

[febrile.livejournal.com]

...I support the University's non-condemnation of this as much as I would support their non-condemnation of their theatre department's production of Hair.

I don't know if I can really say "racist," either, but that's probably because the one illegal I was chummy with was from England.