Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Amster: Shall we wall in the entire nation?
2 comments:
I encourage you to share your own views and experience with me and other readers. How you do that matters, and I'm committed to maintaining a place where readers and commenters can feel safe from adolescent BS. So here's the deal:
There are two kinds of anonymous comments: those by people who have a genuine fear of revenge from the dark side, and those from darksiders just hiding to avoid accountability. You may post comments anonymously, but I reserve the right to treat anonymous comments as found items that belong to me and do with them as I see fit.
If, on the other hand, you're willing to stand by your convictions and post under your own name or a regular handle, your comments belong to you, and I'll edit them only on egregious violations of respect for others.
If this doesn't work for you, I'm sure you'll be happier somewhere else.
It saddened me to read so many negative comments about the professor's article. I have no problem with disagreement. But many of the comments in the Courier show how intolerant people are to different perspectives. It has become a world of black and white thinking, where some want to imprison or fire those who disagree with them. Illegal immigration is a problem. But what has been revealed is an irrational response of xenophobia, hatred, and scapegoating. I thought we could solve our problems rationally, but I was wrong.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's warranted to extrapolate much from the Courier comments. The people who truly inhabit that black-and-white world are no more than 20% of the population, and those who will speak up in public, even anonymously, are a small subset of that. Remember that nearly half the voters reliably vote against this stuff.
ReplyDeleteMost of our population is adults. They're just not always in charge.