Re: The Washington Post is now calling Birth Certificates a "weapon of white supremacists"
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Scholar
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Date: September 18, 2018 09:48AM
More Scholarly Wrote:
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> The story is factually correct. Conservatives in
> some states, Virginia among them, did use basic
> government record keeping documents such as birth
> certificates to promote policies of white
> supremacy and white exclusivity. If that
> historical fact makes you uncomfortable, that is
> your problem, not the author's fault.
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> Where the author has failed is in her effort to
> carry forward her argument and apply it to the
> passport violations in south Texas. The author
> ASSUMES the motive underlying the policy is the
> white supremacy and white exclusivity embraced by
> certain Trump supporters. Yet she mentions the
> problem predates Trump which undercuts the
> argument. The author assumes this is a policy
> decision, and that the policy is only directed
> against Hispanics, or against Hispanics of
> primarily non-European racial origin. Whether
> this is factually correct and whether the evidence
> is available elsewhere is beside the point. The
> author needs to tie the two together, not rely on
> the readers to do so.
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> I suspect if someone presented a similar argument
> in the author's class, she would have given them a
> C- for just those reasons. It is a sloppily
> presented argument.
I never disputed the facts of her argument. What I disputed were the relevancy of said facts to her argument, which you dispute, as well.
It is a common mistake of the Left when it presents "arguments". The left-wing presenter assumes that everyone thinks as he does, thus there is no need to connect his facts to his case. While it is not the only reason, it is part of the reason why anyone who disagrees with the Left onn even the smallest point is automatically assumed to be racist, sexist, Nazi, fascist, phalangist, homophobic, illiterate, fundie-con, religious whack-0, rapist or ___________________(fill in superlative here).