No, she's SAYING immigrants do not deserve civil rights. All the rest is a facile smoke-screen to justify that statement.
The fact that the greatest concerted effort to deny civil (in the case voting) rights was perpetrated against blacks in the 1950-1960's and it was against THOSE efforts that civil rights enforcement was primarily aimed DOES NOT in any way grant nor deny civil rights to other people or groups.
The two issues have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. To pretend otherwise is, at the very least, intellectually dishonest
To put it as simply as I am able, when it comes to civil rights, if they are being denied to people THAT is the issue, not TO WHOM they're being denied. I Coulter is trying to frame the argument around that, and she's wrong to do that.
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Date: 9/24/12 05:51 pm (UTC)The fact that the greatest concerted effort to deny civil (in the case voting) rights was perpetrated against blacks in the 1950-1960's and it was against THOSE efforts that civil rights enforcement was primarily aimed DOES NOT in any way grant nor deny civil rights to other people or groups.
The two issues have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. To pretend otherwise is, at the very least, intellectually dishonest
To put it as simply as I am able, when it comes to civil rights, if they are being denied to people THAT is the issue, not TO WHOM they're being denied. I Coulter is trying to frame the argument around that, and she's wrong to do that.