re: #5 CuriousLurker

*blinks* Really? You got a sense of exuberant, uncritical, rah-rah enthusiasm? From where? I didn’t see it in the 197-word SPLC article, nor do any of the current comments strike me as being in that vein.

For most of my adult life I have gotten a sense that the powers that be are flat-out lying about the need for immigration.

Born to refugee parents, I consider myself well-disposed to immigration, but afaic the p.t.b. never give an intellectually honest picture of the tradeoffs. Ditto for too many advocates of legalization or amnesty or guest work or whatever it’s called nowadays.

2. re: #6 EiMitch

The way I see it, Zuckerberg is trying to buy good karma (for lack of a better description) to counter the bad he has earned. That much, I won’t criticize or otherwise discourage. But neither will I forget his sins.

That aside, its nice to see someone trying to fight the racist poison that has polluted our politics. I dunno how much good this will actually accomplish, but I’m always glad to see it opposed by someone with clout.

Arguably Zuckerberg is buying good publicity to cover up the damage he is participating in.

As for racism, there would be less of it if so many white middle-class Americans weren’t feeling vulnerable and scared and dispossessed. Some of their complaints are legitimate. So far there has been no major figure to advocate for them (afaic the likes of Buchanan, Palin and Huckabee lack the gravitas and are too obviously self-interested). If someone like that emerges, especially if they can build bridges to a critical mass of nonwhite voters, the results could be tectonic.

3. Racism schmacism: Americans have always loathed each other. I’ll worry if interracial marriages fall sharply.

4. Afaic a nation that doesn’t try to control its borders doesn’t deserve to survive, and won’t. That said, people, sometimes desperate, often illegal, who scramble here in search of a better life do not have my enmity.

My anger is reserved for the American elites who de facto invite the illegals. My anger is reserved for the say 0.01% who deliberately undermine the rule of law for political and economic advantage regardless of the effect on the country as a whole…and lie through their teeth about what they’re doing.