Plenty of people trash Bill Maher for being anti-religious bigot, and even though Im not part of organized religion, I dont like his bigotry. But no one is perfect. I enjoy most of Mahers humor, while disagreeing with his anti-religious views. No ones perfect. Take, for example (someone I agree with most of the time) the anti-immigrant views of SAINT GLENN GREENWALD of Rio... Sean Wilentz writes: On certain issues, though, his prose was suffused with right-wing conceits and catchphrases. One example was immigration, on which Greenwald then held surprisingly hard-line views. “The parade of evils caused by illegal immigration is widely known,” Greenwald wrote in 2005. The facts, to him, were indisputable: “illegal immigration wreaks havoc economically, socially, and culturally; makes a mockery of the rule of law; and is disgraceful just on basic fairness grounds alone.” Defending the nativist congressman Tom Tancredo from charges of racism, Greenwald wrote of “unmanageably endless hordes of people [who] pour over the border in numbers far too large to assimilate, and who consequently have no need, motivation or ability to assimilate.” Those hordes, Greenwald wrote, posed a threat to “middle-class suburban voters.”
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 23:05:46 +0000
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