Tag: Harvey

A Different Way To Look At “Illegal”

Here is a different way to look at illegal immigration. I saw a post from Dan Rather the other day about how Spanish speaking people rescuing others from Houston shouldn’t be thought of as anything other than American. Sure, why not? I mean, assuming they actually are Americans.  If the President of Mexico offers aid to Houstonians, we don’t automatically grant him citizenship.

The problem is that the Left has defined the debate. On their terms “citizen” means “white dude”. Immigrant means “Hispanic (regardless of citizenship)”. Illegal immigrant means you are simply a racist, privileged white dude for using that term. Nobody is “illegal”. They are “human”.  Right?

Instead of using the often confused terms of immigrant and illegal immigrant, let’s replace those terms with “Taxpayer” and “Tax Cheat”. After all, that’s what an illegal immigrant has done. They have cheated on their paperwork, or not filed at all. See how the stories change in that context.

Take today, there is a story about how immigrants are battling detection and deportation after Harvey. Really? We are deporting citizens because they emigrated to the USA? No, they mean illegal immigrants, but nobody is illegal so that is a racist term. Let’s try this instead, “Tax cheats battle detection and IRS penalties after Harvey”. Still feel so much sympathy?

Trump considers ending the Dream Act (which wasn’t actually an act, just a regulation) for children of immigrants. What? We are deporting citizen children because their parents came here legally from other countries??  No, of course not.  But again, illegal immigrant is a racist term used by citizens (privileged white dudes). So let’s try it differently. Trump considers crackdown on tax cheats filing illegitimate child tax credit claims. Ah, suddenly it doesn’t sound so bad.

So that’s the assignment. If you see an article that says “immigrant” but means “illegal immigrant”, just substitute “tax cheat”. If you see an article that says “immigrant” and means “legal citizen who emigrated”, read it “taxpayer”.

By the way, if you think this is a ridiculous idea just remember that anyone who is here illegally is either dodging taxes, committing identity theft, or filing the wrong return. Most are paid under the table or with a false tax ID. The reason businesses use their labor is because they are illegally paid less than minimum wage and don’t operate under the same overtime and labor laws that citizens…sorry, taxpayers do. So if you read every story in that lens, taxpayer and tax cheat, you won’t be that far off.

Matt Walsh: How It Ought To Be

Oh Matt. Matt Walsh is sticking by a tweeted photo and commentary of a man carrying a woman and baby out of a flood. Ok, let’s start with what he got right. The baby is probably in no circumstances going to be carrying the man or the woman out of the flood waters. Woman or man protecting the child, we’re good.

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Gender studies professors. Gosh, if your biggest beef with them right now is gender roles? You’re probably not paying attention. Maybe you should go back to science and chromosomes and start with them there.

Now, to the rest of his analogy. Matt, your world view demonstrated by this picture is a tiny box. In that box, you view a woman who is probably 120 lbs and her husband who wears camo, hunts and gathers. He probably drives a big truck. So when it floods, he carries her out. That’s nice. Probably happens a lot. That’s not how it “ought to be”.

How it ought to be is that the parents care for the child and whoever can walk or carry does the walking or carrying.  I’ve known far too many physically strong women, and honestly a fair share of physically weak men, to try to fit the world into that one size fits all box. By the way, if your child is bigger than you, it’s ok if they carry you to safety too.

We can of course debate all day on averages and so on.  Of course there are biological differences.  But people aren’t defined by laws of averages.  They are defined by their individuality.  If average height for a woman is 5’5 and average height for a man is 5’10, that does not mean it ought to be that a 6′ tall woman should let her 5’4 man carry her out of danger.

The same goes for emotional strength, common sense, intelligence, education.  America isn’t about cookie cutter. It’s not about people being limited to their stereotypical boundaries. It’s about people realizing their full potential and being better and more than the standard picture someone else has in their head. That’s how it ought to be.