New rule: to comment negatively about immigrants, you have to first disclose why your own family members immigrated to the US seeking a better life, and why people facing much worse shouldn’t have the same opportunity.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Thinking back now, I would've asked her if she thought a Mexican immigrant who has not done anything should be allowed to cross the border illegally to make the double-standard even starker, but my brain had been so fried by her admission that I didn't. I could feel it sizzling.
Nothing makes sense until you can truly mentally accept that there's no objective standard, there's only
"my team good,
anything pro-them =good,
anything anti-them or pro-anyone else =bad."
Any claim that they're mad about X, think X should be punishable etc, is reasoning backwards from there.
Back the Blue...except at the Capitol
Rule of Law...except for Trump and NYPD officers speeding families
Campus Free Speech...but only for young conservatives
No government subsidies to welfare queens...except farmers
No free handouts... except to Elon Musk, a new corporate HQ or sports stadium
I've met people who see life as a constant competition between Our Group and All The Other Groups. All actions and hypocrisy are permitted, and any other standard is naive and childish.
This is all it is. Taking an obvious and huge rhetorical L in a confrontation like that is merely a momentary misfortune - a tragic win for the Others - but it has ZERO impact on her overall worldview.
