>You shouldn't be called a racist because you think that the US should work to ensure no one crosses our southern border without permission.
I would ask anyone who believes that the US should work to to control entry at the southern border to question why they believe this is an important thing to focus on. What is the root of that belief? Why should the US be exclusive? What benefit do you derive from keeping it exclusive, and why is the accident of your birth somehow firmer ground of entitlement to citizenship than any other abstract concept?
Perhaps they are not "a racist" but I strongly believe that the desire to control the border is deeply rooted in racism in America, and anyone having this discussion needs to be willing to consider the basis for their ideas.
Lol. Do you have no self awareness? In a post, where it talks about trying to be more open to conservative viewpoints, you imply that the default reason to support border security is racism? This is exactly the line of thinking that causes people elsewhere in the thread to comment that they rarely meet conservatives. If someone is in an environment where they have to argue just to prove they are not racist, why bother?
I would ask anyone who believes that the US should work to to control entry at the southern border to question why they believe this is an important thing to focus on. What is the root of that belief? Why should the US be exclusive? What benefit do you derive from keeping it exclusive, and why is the accident of your birth somehow firmer ground of entitlement to citizenship than any other abstract concept?
Perhaps they are not "a racist" but I strongly believe that the desire to control the border is deeply rooted in racism in America, and anyone having this discussion needs to be willing to consider the basis for their ideas.