I was inundated yesterday with activists and journalists proclaiming that they now demand conditions-free release of all detained migrants and total border abolitionism. If that's your position, OK, but it's going to require more than emotionalistic slogans to defend it in public
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That's a fine principle to espouse but it should be defended in public without reflexively resorting to sloganeering, overheated moralistic posturing, and "shutting down" anyone who might have reservations around the margins. The online commentariat does not seem capable of this
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Parsing rapid changes in elite opinion, which inevitably has a downstream effect on public policy, is a valid mode of journalistic inquiry and I'm going to continue doing it even if people insist on immediately ascribing bad faith, shouting "fascism," or getting bizarrely angry
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I have a standing offer to engage on the substance with any online critic who believes I'm evil for whatever reason. (Not to "debate," to converse.) This offer is almost never taken up. Which is unfortunate, because it reflects a broader resistance to good faith engagement
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No one is obligated to engage with me directly. However, in a pluralistic democracy do you do have to engage with people who might not share your principles. The way this issue is talked about, especially online, makes that increasingly impossible
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Their operating principle is that they want open borders, but don’t want people calling their position “open borders.”
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It was pretty short period of time I think we saw a shift at the end of Obama’s presidency. But the urgency became apparent when they saw it as a way to defeat trump. You can resist his immigration policy and win elections by bringing in truck loads of voters from other countries
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I believe this was always their view, it was only shrouded by fake appeals to “sensible” laws. When pressed by an impending election the true nature of their lunacy became apparent.
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Don't think Twitter is the right platform to measure that without loonies/loud voices bias.
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This doesn't make sense. Even the most hardcore communist countries have strong border enforcement, often to keep people in.
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Give'em an inch..... , as they say.
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Let's make the Progressives (i.e., Pro-regressives) ILLEGITIMATE.
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