YOU’RE A sensible, principled conservative. You want America to be a land of boundless opportunity and freedom, where people are treated as individuals and judged on their merits. You reject the divisive identity politics of the left – what matters most about any of us, you would insist, is not race or class or ethnic origins: it is personal character and achievement. There are few things about contemporary politics you deplore more than the demonizing or scapegoating of entire groups (“white males,” “the rich,” “the Christian right,” “gun owners”), as though every member of the group is interchangeable and indistinguishable, wholly defined by a single disparaging label.
But let someone mention “illegal immigrants,” and your principles fly out the window.
via Where conservatives have it wrong – The Boston Globe.
I have noted in conversation elsewhere, and I will say it here: it is immigration law that is wrong, not the illegal immigrants.
Just get in line like our ancestors did!
Too true.
So the author was trying to point out the hypocrisy of demonizing or scapegoating an entire group while decrying these actions – by demonizing and scapegoating an entire group as being reactionary (when it comes to illegal immigrants)?
(I was going to make a comment about journalists these days, but realized that would be scapegoating an entire group.)