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" [1] 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 [2].

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.

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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 [in the original comment, this was a link to cis putadothere org/articles/2006/back706.html]

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.

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[1] boingboing putadothere net/2008/05/01/online-game-teaches.html
[2] icedgame putadothere com

Comments

It happens to me alot. Boing Boing is working for mexico city you do know that right? Its more like a superhuman drug dealer raping woman, a new book is out called the "border", in it he writes about rape tree's, read the book. Why is it that evil people love mexico and the third world drug dealers who rule over the little people and hate freedom and words of a free people?