A perspective on anti-immigration, legal or illegal

i received a comment to my post yesterday regarding portugal's campaign to recognize and celebrate the postive contributions of its immigrants to portugese society... the comment read, in part,

"No one I know objects to legal immigration, that includes those of the MinuteMan Project you are so quick to vilify."

my response was this - "vilify's a good word... i'm not a supporter of anything that has an underpinning of white supremacy..." now, admittedly, that was a rather blithe response without benefit of context and, understandably, generated yet another comment which included this question:

"Anyone who is against illegal immigration is necessarily a white supremicst[sic]?"

i've posted on this topic before but it's still a good question and well worth revisiting...

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the simple answer is, no, of course not, and i completely agree with the respected journalist, david neiwert, who says,

"There are many reasonable people seeking immigration reform who are not bigots, xenophobes, racists, or anti-Semites."

but it's very, very important to understand that the issue of immigration, be it legal or illegal, is being used and exploited by many people and groups who ARE racists or, worse yet, identify with or are actively involved in the white supremacy movement... these people tend to see activism against immigration, legal or illegal (although the illegal variety carries more societal legitimacy) as very much in line with their aims... david roddy of the pittsburgh post-gazette comments on how jared taylor, the force behind american renaissance and its parent organization, the new century foundation, has gained msm acceptance...

Race-relations expert Jared Taylor publishes American Renaissance magazine, which features an array of pseudoscientific studies that purport to show the folly of multiculturalism and the inherent failure of the races to live together. Or, as Taylor once wrote, "If whites permit themselves to be displaced, it is not just the high culture of the West that could disappear but such things as representative government, rule of law and freedom of speech, which whites usually get right and everyone else usually gets wrong."

What Taylor represents and how he got himself on no fewer than a half-dozen radio and television stations in large markets to denounce Martin Luther King illustrates the new tactics of white supremacy. Employing the dispassionate language of sociological and genetic studies, and under the veneer of academic inquiry, an assortment of highly educated people now push the theory that everything from unwed motherhood in Atlanta to economic collapse in Gambia can be explained by the genetic code imprinted on the races.

as both neiwert and roddy point out, the jared taylors of the world often adopt seemingly very rational and articulate positions that mask what they are really promoting - a belief in the inherent superiority of white, northern european descent... the following is taken from the web site of american renaissance...

The problems of race cannot be solved without adequate understanding. Attempts to gloss over the significance of race or even to deny its reality only make problems worse. Progress requires the study of all aspects of race, whether historical, cultural, or biological.

sounds reasonable, right...? but it doesn't take long scrolling through the comments on the posts before what's going on becomes clear... (the post this individual is commenting on laments that hollywood remakes are "casting minorities in roles originally played by whites...")

The purpose of this is to destroy white history, to erase the common "white memory". The full scale assault on the white race is just ramping up the death blow.

It is over unless only EUROPEAN whites run ALL aspects of their OWN nation. IT would be like Palestinian Arabs owning Isreali[sic] TV and news papers.

it is THAT kind of thinking that i find the most frightening aspect of the current wave of anti-(legal or illegal) immigrant feelings and why i so cavalierly tossed in my white supremacist comment...

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