If he's offbase what what your point in saying we cheer the Canadian mom and scream about Mexican ones?
My "oh, my" was mostly surprise at how intense his reaction was. I don't expect "intense" from LB. That's why I just acknowledged it with an "oh, my" and left him to settle.
As for off base, a couple of volatile inferences. The first one was that my "we" as in "we cheer" was somehow a reference to this thread. I realize that "we" is vague, but I would expect this thread to be pretty far down the list of potential candidates for the reference of that particular pronoun. I meant we Americans, particularly those of us who grouse about birthright citizenship, which includes me.
The big inference, though, was the racial one. Wow, did that pop out from nowhere!
Do we even know what color Mrs. Jepp was? Yes, she's probably white coming from Calgary but she could well be one of the indigenous peoples or she could be black or brown. Canada has gotten more diverse.
My basis of my point, though, since you asked, was that a baby born American in a US hospital of a foreign mother is just as American and entitled to all those rights and privileges whether the mother was escaping the Canadian health care system as escaping poverty in Mexico. But since one is here legally and one isn't, we go bonkers over the latter but are "glad" about the former. I find that interesting. (It's similar, I bet, to the outrage premium that murder by terrorist evokes among thread denizens.)
According to LB, in remarking about that disparity I was not only "sneering" but sneering at this board. That's quite a figment. It boggles the mind how someone could not only come up with that but generate such intensity over it. And so far eleven poodles have signed on, to boot. Gosh.
(Feel free to read a bit of a sneer into "poodle." Otherwise, this post is sneer free.) |
