This past Sunday, the N&O devoted its Sunday forum to illegal immigration. Many of the letters voiced opposition or support for a previous letter that characterized the term “illegal alien” as “hateful.”
As our regular readers know, the term illegal alien is not hateful at all, but an innocuous legal term that refers to an alien (i.e., a foreign national) who is in the United States illegally.
The truth of the matter is that “illegal alien” is not a hateful term, but a term that the Left hates. Liberals hate the use of illegal alien because it reminds the public of what is at stake here … that opposition to illegal immigration has nothing to do with race or, even immigration, but with respect for the law.
In the end, of course, liberals hate the law too. And, with the law, reason. Hence, all that is left is demonization of one’s opponents — and with this demonization, comes a dehumanization, as we saw with the Nazi regime (recall that the Nazis were socialists) and communist Russia.
Your over-simplification of issues ad absurdum takes credibility from what otherwise would be a fairly entertaining site.
Hitler being a socialist!? He, basically, only joined the Deutsche Arbeiterspartei (which later became the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) because he knew that he could not rise to power in any other party, seeing as how it was one of the weaker ones at the time. Furthermore, communists (extreme left) were some of his main adversaries…
Despicable cruelty and inhumane atrocities have nothing to do with the political spectrum: Franco on the right, Stalin on the Left; Pinochet on the right, etc… etc…
Thanks for your comment.
As for Hitler being a half-hearted socialist, that is beside the point. Likewise, the fact that the Nazi socialists fought with the communists is beside the point — such infighting is typical (e.g. Stalin vs. Trotsky).
I plead guilty to employing the “reductio ad Hitlarum.” Nevertheless, the point remains. And the point is this: Liberalism, the philosophy of the Left, is a branch of the same tree that produced socialism and communism. This tree is modern relativism. Such relativism, as Nietzsche saw, reduces political and moral and religious questions to questions of power. Reason thus no longer has a place in political life. Where there is not reason, there can be no dialogue. Where dialogue is not possible, we are left only with force and fraud. In political discourse, such force is often expressed as demonization. My use of the same tactic at the end of my post was not without a certain irony …