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Agree and disagree. OToneH, focussing on true "birth tourism" is a bit like focussing on trans athletes in the Olympics to target a junior high volleyball player.
OTOH, the birth tourism Klein is talking about is the folks he knows in San Francisco tech world who came from . . .
If you support a policy that would entrench the power of whiteness and would undo a basic civil right established for non-white people then you embrace white supremacy. There is no “other hand.” There is no other argument for ending birthright citizenship.
Ezra Klein, for all of his faults, has been pretty good (not perfect) on a range of issues. He has been pretty much the only mainstream podcaster to bring Palestinians onto his platform to make the case against Zionism.
He's not far enough left, he's still (sort of) a Zionist, etc. etc. etc.
There are very few people who are exactly where I want them to be. But "embracing white supremacy" seems like a serious charge against someone who in many other ways has been an ally to progressive causes.
How exactly has he been an ally? He took Paul Ryan at face value and seems to be fooled by everyone- Ahmed Chalabi, SBF when it was clear those people were charlatans. He doesn't even realize how obtuse he is by bringing up Tech workers birth tourism. He doesn't think things through
Being “good on a range of issues” and “progressive” does not exempt one from desiring to keep white people in power and limiting the rights and opportunities of non-white people. That’s most of American history and most “progressives.” He flat-out endorsed a BS concept invented by white supremacists
The fact Ezra believes what he’s saying about birthright citizenship makes sense shows he’s completely unaware of the anti-immigrant assumptions he’s making to reach his (faulty) conclusion.
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He was not "as pro-immigrant as you can possibly be"
Agree and disagree. OToneH, focussing on true "birth tourism" is a bit like focussing on trans athletes in the Olympics to target a junior high volleyball player.
OTOH, the birth tourism Klein is talking about is the folks he knows in San Francisco tech world who came from . . .
It should be obvious that there is, in fact, a huge difference between those folks and liberated Black folks in 1865.
Klein is being obtuse but not white supremacist.
He's not far enough left, he's still (sort of) a Zionist, etc. etc. etc.
I don't think the embracing white supremacist charge is fair, in his case. Yglesias we can talk about.
But you don't have to go to the margins to find it. Klein's mask has been askew since his Iraq War cheerleading days.