Next week, blacks will wear tags saying “N___” on “Find the N___” day.
Brand new game at NYU: ‘Find the Illegal Immigrant’
A student Republican club at New York University is planning a “Find the Illegal Immigrant” game tomorrow, sparking complaints of racism and a potential protest.
The object of the game is to be the first to point out a club member wearing a nametag reading “Illegal Immigrant,” with the winner receiving a gift certificate. Students need to show their NYU identification to be deemed “INS” agents in order to search for the person wearing the tag.
“The person that is being the ‘illegal immigrant’ is not an actual undocumented worker or illegal immigrant,” Sarah Chambers, 21, president of the College Republicans, told the New York Daily News. “Just because we don’t want illegal immigrants being able to completely disregard the laws of our country doesn’t make us racist.”
NYU officials released a statement explaining why the college is allowing the game. Spokesman John Beckman writes: [...] “Our inclination is always to support free speech. Just as one group of students will conduct this so-called ‘game,’ others will be protesting it. At a university, this is exactly the kind of outcome we hope for from engaged students and scholars.”
Sarah Chambers – Illegal immigrant hunter
What is really racist is the United States immigration policy that lets some, selected few in at the expense of others. “Your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” my ass!
It took me a long, long, long time to be convinced that the US immigration policy is wrong. But the Libertarian arguments finally won me over.
And to think, in a country started by weathy, landed slaveholders!
#10: What has slavery got to with this?
I think if you asked 99 out of 100 people who do you think of when you say ‘illegal immigrant’ these days, they would answer Mexican or more broadly, those from south of the border. If they don’t say it to be polite, they certainly are thinking it. While I agree with the semantic distinction that the term ‘racist’ is stretched in today’s vernacular to include being used where race, per se, is not actually involved, its use in a situation such as this has been co-opted for so long that most people equate ‘illegal immigrant’ with a particular peoples in a ‘racist’ way. In that sense, given what these students are doing, I think equating wearing a sign and pointing out those wearing one with that phrase or one that said n___ or even one that said Jew as the Nazis did is appropriately called racism. Just my opinion.
The issue of criminality is a separate issue, and as I’ve stated before, I believe only legal immigrants should receive the benefits that citizens do. If you are here illegally, apply for legal status or leave.
#20: Sorry, but — hard to believe, but true — I occasionally do things in the ‘real world’ away from the computer and DU. I’ll try not to let it happen again!
#22 – Uncle Dave
“I think if you asked 99 out of 100 people who do you think of when you say ‘illegal immigrant’ these days, they would answer Mexican or more broadly, those from south of the border. If they don’t say it to be polite, they certainly are thinking it”
Well, OK. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. I mean, those from Central America are the problematic übermajority of illegals, the selfsame ones who are depressing the wages, shipping the currency out of the country, running up billions in taxpayer-funded social services, &c, &c. So, if, when someone refers to ‘illegal immigrants’, they’re assumed to be talking about those coming across our southern border, no? So how is this ‘racist’ – or if not ‘racist’, how is it discriminatory or whatever? Where is the problem?
So, what I’m saying is, I don’t think I grasp your point…
I was so inspired by today’s “Find the Illegal Immigrant” event at NYU that I created a new merchandise line at my online store, http://www.bobmccarty.com. Information about it is also posted at my blog, http://www.bobmccarty.wordpress.com. Enjoy!
Here are 2 good ones:
1. Great! now we have hit lerian youth in our colleges
2. Can’t wait to have that bill allowing illegal immigrants vote pass (NY state)
lolololololol
#23: While many (like me) don’t care where the illegal workers are from and are looking at the issue as a fairness to legal citizens and US ecconomic issue, many simply use something like this as an excuse to attack a group (Mexicans, etc) they don’t like in a racist way. Illegal worker = Mexican reinforces the stereotypes in a simplistic way that does nothing positive. Deal with the issues instead of making fun of/attacking the people.
I am a german, so i have experiences with nazi history, how this could happen and how ordinary people could have let it come so far. Do you know how beeing a NAZI begins, with actions like that. It´s like Borats funny “Hunt the Jew” game, don´t you think there are other ways to display you disappointment about the temporary situation?
And don´t you think that the usa (as a country that is doubtlessly the biggest poverty producer in the world) has no right to get angry when some poor guys want to cross the border, don´t you think that this is a natural reaction to poverty and if you were a mexican in the same situation, that you would behave different? No, i guess you wouldn´t. But it´s cool to sit (as we germans use to say) high on your horse and do some popular talk to please other people, or to do lobby work.
Wake up guys, start to think with your brains, not with your guns, it´s about human beeings and not your senseless nationalism. You are the richest country in the world with about 90% of the whole existing money. Where is this money, don´t blame Mexicans, blame your banks, insurances, stock exchangers, oil and gun producers……
be tolerant and show some solidarity, that would fit better and make you appear more sympathic in the rest of the world…
disussions are recommended if you´re interested.
thanks for your patience
Ziggy