I think most people have both intellectual and deeper, visceral reasons for the policies they promote. When people ask me why I defend immigration...Yes, there are lots of good intellectual reasons, but also, *it's what I grew up with*.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1056206835810791425 …
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Anti-immigration people constantly struggle to figure out why I support immigration. Is it because I want more votes for the Democratic party? Is it a scheme to make America less white? Is it a neoliberal plot to reduce wages? They just don't understand.
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What they don't understand is that, like most people, I instinctively want to restore the America of my youth. And since I grew up under Reagan, Clinton, and Bush, my America was an America with immigrants. It was part of our communities, our culture, and our national story.
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Immigration was part of the fabric of daily life and community, but it was also a *nationalist* thing. We told ourselves that America, our country, was great because it was a nation of immigrants. That our nation took people from anywhere and uplifted them, gave them a shot.
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I agree with you. But it shouldn't matter what you grew up with or how you were raised, if you have good intellectual reasons to support it. Because how you were raised won't persuade anyone.
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On the contrary, I think one essential element of persuasion is to let people know where you're coming from. We all have emotional, visceral motivations, and when people know what those are, they know we're not keeping anything secret or trying to put one over on them.
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