Christ, What an Asshole - Xenophobe Edition
Published by BG on Friday, June 08, 2007 at 11:46 AM.Mark Krikorian @ The Corner on National Review Online
(The phrase "a nation of immigrants") has an ideological purpose, to downgrade and delegitimize America before the beginning of mass immigration in 1848, or maybe even before 1880. It is, in a sense, the unofficial motto of multiculturalism. America is much more a "nation of settlers" and a "nation of slaves" that it is a nation of immigrants.
Read: Everything was fine when it was just Western Europeans coming over here.
Mark Krikorian @ The Corner on National Review Online
Compare two holidays. Columbus Day began a century ago in this country as an attempt by Italian immigrants to attache themselves into the founding of America. Move forward to today and see what's happened to the Fourth of July; the main public ceremony that occurs on that day is no longer public readings of the Declaration of Independence but new-citizen swearing-in ceremonies. It has turned into Immigration Day rather than Independence Day...
So after a lengthy legal immigration cycle in which people who wanted to become American citizens had to wade through bureaucracy the likes of which you'll never have to endure, you're going to begrudge the government for hosting citizenship ceremonies on a patriotically significant day? Somehow, it becomes less about Thomas Jefferson and more about those awful berry-picking immigrants who are basically leprosy-ridden criminals because of this?
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