Let's Be Reasonable

Faux-conservative, David Brooks, has thrown his hat in the ring on the immigration debate. Newsbusters has a wondeful piece covering his recent comments in which he chastises conservatives for not "talking reasonably" on the issue. Take this excerpt from the Newbusters site.

"I was up at a press conference this week where a House Republican said, `You know, we've got to have some people to pick lettuce in this country, so we're not going to have immigrants. Let's make the prisoners do it.’ You want to hit the guy on the head with a baseball bat. We're going to take a largely minority population, forced labor, picking lettuce and cotton. Is this ringing any bells here?"

Here a supposed conservative uses an absolutely textbook leftist tactic, when all else fails, play the race card. It's easy to label someone a racist, because it requires only speculation or innuendo and instantly discredits anything they have to say.

So, Mr. Brooks is saying, that if one were to suggest alternatives in this case for the alleged labor shortage caused by ousting illegals, those alternatives would be suspect in anyway possible to view the comments in their worst possible racist light. In this case, Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) made comments about prisoners being used in place of current illegal labor, which when you actually view it is de facto slave labor.

Whether her comments have merit or not is never explored. The economic feasibility, the logistics, even the ethical and constitutional considerations would have to be weighed heavily to even remotely consider such a stunt. Are these important to people like Brooks? Not really. What's important is that the inference you can make from the general prison population, that it is primarily black, shows that conservatives are only interested in restoring blacks to the plantation.

Plantation is another popular leftist word lately, I think because conservatives were starting to use it to describe the estate minorities are attached to by the chain of government welfare. That sounded like a little too solid of a conclusion, so something had to be done. Now we see it from Senator Clinton's comments all the way down to Mr. Brook's racist inferences. Well, one could also argue that Mr. Brooks by being so obsessed with racism may be harboring his own repressed feelings, but would one have anymore concrete or solid facts than Brooks? Not really.

I think perhaps what was a tad bit more annoying was the "hit you over the head" motif of "Hello, is this ringing any bells here?" Because none of us were aware some blacks used to be slaves until Brooks told us. Well, then again, modern U.S. history being what it is, perhaps he needs to put in that hammer basher of a tail line.

So, since we aren't being reasonable by suggesting viable potential alternatives to the immigration issue, let's be reasonable and at least try and act like adults. As hard as that is, I know, for some leftists, if you want this argument judged seriously and on the merits, then behave civilly instead of constantly trying to paint with your favorite racist brush. Perhaps I'm asking too much, but it'd be a nice welcome change. Then again, the problem might be that they have no solution, like most other issues, not a real one at least, not one that doesn't keep "their minorities" oppressed and dependent on them and money continuing to pour into their left-leaning causes. But that's a history lesson for another day.