May 02, 2008

Xeni Jardin/BoingBoing deletes comments

Xeni Jardin is a lightweight supporter of illegal immigration and pseudo-hipster (tech division) who blogs at BoingBoing. She offers "Online game teaches immigrant kids about rights of due process" (boingboing.net/2008/05/01/online-game-teaches.html) about a video game which portrays a superhuman ICE agent oppressing people of color (and one young lady from Poland) over legal immigration edge cases (icedgame.com).

A couple of on-topic, non-abusive comments I left on the entry were deleted almost immediately after I left them. And, a follow-up comment combining the two received a moderated message and will probably never appear. In the past BoingBoing has had a forum, then they went to technorati only, now they have comments. So, always willing to inform, I signed up and left the two comments in the extended entry.

Boing Boing readers who drop by might want to consider what else Xeni and/or Boing Boing don't want them to see, and whether they should trust anything they read from her or that site.

Comment #1:
#12 is suggesting following the money. Who profits from massive and/or illegal immigration? When (just as an example) a certain blogger from a certain site smears those who support our laws, whose ends does that serve? For those who don't know, Mexico receives around $24 billion per year that their people send home from the U.S., and plenty of companies - and even the Federal Reserve - want a slice of that money, much of which was earned illegally.

In the case of this game it doesn't apply that much since based on a quick glance it seems to involve legal edge cases rather than illegal immigration, but OTOH it doesn't show much respect for - and racializes and demonizes - law enforcement.

For more on the elites, see this

Comment #2:
#22: You might want to reconsider offering an argument for importing a third-world serf class to do our dirty jobs for several reasons, the primary reason being that we've already gone down that road a while back, albeit with some significant differences. Yet, the mindset - and that which supported child labor - is remarkably similar.

The second reason is that "economic" arguments frequently ignore all the costs, both financial and non-financial.

Posted to Bloggage at May 2, 2008 12:46 AM