Saturday, May 27, 2006

Los inmigrantes como chivos expiatorios y la construcción de una Crisis

The essay I had published on CounterPunch has been translated and republished in Spanish on Rebelion.org. I also found it (in English) on this website with nutty comments like this one:
6. To: Starshadow (#1)

"The more obvious and simpler solution would be to raise the minimum wage for everyone."

I only got that far before I realized we were listening to a socialist.

Pessimist posted on 2006-05-17 14:42:44 ET

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Whenever I see comments like this, I try to use it as a reminder to myself: Do not pre-judge. Just as quickly as this guy labeled you a socialist, I've labeled others as "right wing" or something like that.

Anonymous said...

But wait, you are a socialist, aren't you? -dp

CVillarreal said...

More or less yes. But I find it funny that all someone had to read was raise the minimum wage and the jump is to socialist. By this measure Franklin Roosevelt must have been the biggest commie ever.

Sometimes I like to label folks, but in this case it was a reaction to people using words like "idiot."