The Other McCain has some observations about the Left. The ‘Magic Dirt’ Fallacy and Other Liberal Errors About Immigration Policy
He starts out by noting that if you disagree with a liberal they will call you a name, not because they can refute any argument you have, but because they assume that will stop all arguments.
Steve Sailer deserves a better reputation than he has, but as it is he is one of the most successful Thought Criminals of our age, having persisted in focusing on facts that liberals wish us to ignore, particularly regarding actual real-world racial differences. One of the problems we encounter in any discussion of race is that liberals always attribute mala fides to their critics. To disagree with a liberal is to stand accused of some malign motive — racism, sexism, “greed,” etc. — because of the unstated premises embedded in any liberal policy argument.
From there he goes on to discuss Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s shooting of National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., and immigration as a whole.
It may be true that “the vast majority” of immigrants “are freedom-loving,” but it very much matters how many of those immigrants are admitted. Suppose that 20% of immigrants are not “freedom-loving.” If the total number of immigrants is a million a year, this means we are adding 200,000 enemies of freedom annually.
There is a nice bit of Thomas Sowell thrown in.
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