Next week, blacks will wear tags saying “N___” on “Find the N___” day.
Brand new game at NYU: ‘Find the Illegal Immigrant’
A student Republican club at New York University is planning a “Find the Illegal Immigrant” game tomorrow, sparking complaints of racism and a potential protest.
The object of the game is to be the first to point out a club member wearing a nametag reading “Illegal Immigrant,” with the winner receiving a gift certificate. Students need to show their NYU identification to be deemed “INS” agents in order to search for the person wearing the tag.
“The person that is being the ‘illegal immigrant’ is not an actual undocumented worker or illegal immigrant,” Sarah Chambers, 21, president of the College Republicans, told the New York Daily News. “Just because we don’t want illegal immigrants being able to completely disregard the laws of our country doesn’t make us racist.”
NYU officials released a statement explaining why the college is allowing the game. Spokesman John Beckman writes: […] “Our inclination is always to support free speech. Just as one group of students will conduct this so-called ‘game,’ others will be protesting it. At a university, this is exactly the kind of outcome we hope for from engaged students and scholars.”
Sarah Chambers – Illegal immigrant hunter
Racist?! exactly what race is an illegal immigrant?
^^ All races
I don’t know about this game, but I can say that immigration will be one of my top priorities for my next Prez. vote!
How is this a game when all the participants have to do is look at a name tag??? They better put it on a blond hair, blue eyed German.
There is nothing “racist” about objecting to criminality, except to people deluded by PC.
And, much to the chagrin of said PCers, said objection to illegal immigration is far from the exclusive province of Republicans. They’d rather you not know that respect for obeying immigration law, as the vast majority of our ancestors did, is not, as much as they would like to hoodwink you to the contrary, a left/right issue.
I’ve personally paid my multicultural dues, and I’ve got a closetful of t-shirts to show for it. Most of my life has been spent, not in isolate, lily-white Middle America, but in 3 of the most diverse cities in the West; D.C., Miami and Houston. Very few of my friends are American-born – so spare me any “racist” horseshit, it ain’t gonna fly.
I’ve learned some realities over the years regarding illegals, and I recently came across an open letter from a 27-year veteran of the INS, to a senator. In it, he spells out the realities, plainly and clearly. And every bit of it, I personally know to be true and factual.
Those with open minds (as well as those deluded ideologues already stoked to start screeching “Racism!!”) will find it here. PCers and knee-jerk liberals won’t be able to accept it, but the more firsthand real-world experience you have with illegal immigrants, the harder it is to deny.
Hey, what do you expect? Cute girls doing a poly-sci major need to do something to fill up their time.
The term “racism” has become almost meaningless from years of improper over-usage.
If they were really concerned about illegal immigration simply because the law is being broken, then why not play find the “illegal immigrant employer”. If it weren’t for all the US citizens and US companies brazenly violating the law by hiring illegal immigrants, there wouldn’t be a problem. The fact that they choose to focus on the immigrants instead of the companies is why I suspect Sarah Chambers and her friends are xenophobic.
what a waste of time. if they really want to help out. why don’t they spend time at the border with the Minute Men.
and #8 you don’t really expect some hardworking college student to upset a future employer do you?
lastly, for a young Republican she’s kinda hot. but then I lust after Coulter too, so what do I know.
Trying to equate illigal immigration to slavery is why the left doesn’t have a voice in this discussion.
Yes, that means you Dave.
Yes, I do expect her to have some spine and why would she want to work for a company that hires illegal immigrants anyway? The minutemen are silly. The problem is not the immigrants, but the US companies and US citizens breaking the law by employing illegal immigrants.
This blog post is intellectually dishonest and a blatant attempt at race-baiting where no racism exists.
#5 There is nothing “racist” about objecting to criminality, except to people deluded by PC.
That’s just the kind of bullshit I expect to hear from a Mac Fanboy.
#13 – OFTLO
Thank you for your carefully considered, well-reasoned, content-free so-called “refutation” of what I said.
Break it down now: ‘bullshit’ – that says you disagree; ‘Mac fanboi’ – that’s trivial ad hominem, so we throw that out – now we get to where you explain exactly in what way I’m wrong. OOPS! Nothing there! Entirely, 100% absent of anything remotely resembling an argument.
Pathetic.
All of the racists I’ve ever meet have been xenophobe’s and vice versa. Maybe Sarah Chambers is only xenophobe and not a racist.
Protecting laws is bad! Protecting the feelings of law breakers is good! Race baiting is good! yea moderen liberalism!
#14 – Learn to recognize a fucking joke. PC means Personal Computer and you often shill for Apple.
Jesus Christ on pony…
#17 – OFTLO
Sorry old chum, but that one blew by like an F-111 over a rice paddy. In a computer-related thread I mighta noticed…
…or maybe not – after all, I am rather dense, just ask Gasparrini if you don’t believe me…
This is racist? Actually it is exposing racism in the people saying it is racist, wo assume that illegal immigrant means people of a particular race. Also, if the people involved start looking at Mexicans for the tag, then this game exposes racism in themselves.
This is closer to the ‘John Rocker is racist’ news where the people making the charge heard ‘New York queer with aids next to a kid with purple hair next to a welfare mother next to a guy out of jail for the third time’ and thought of black people.
#10 – James Hill
“…
Yes, that means you Dave.”
Dave? Dave?? Dave’s not here.
…sorry – noticed Dave’s deafening silence 🙂 , couldn’t resist the C&C crack…
What is really racist is the United States immigration policy that lets some, selected few in at the expense of others. “Your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” my ass!
It took me a long, long, long time to be convinced that the US immigration policy is wrong. But the Libertarian arguments finally won me over.
And to think, in a country started by weathy, landed slaveholders!
#10: What has slavery got to with this?
I think if you asked 99 out of 100 people who do you think of when you say ‘illegal immigrant’ these days, they would answer Mexican or more broadly, those from south of the border. If they don’t say it to be polite, they certainly are thinking it. While I agree with the semantic distinction that the term ‘racist’ is stretched in today’s vernacular to include being used where race, per se, is not actually involved, its use in a situation such as this has been co-opted for so long that most people equate ‘illegal immigrant’ with a particular peoples in a ‘racist’ way. In that sense, given what these students are doing, I think equating wearing a sign and pointing out those wearing one with that phrase or one that said n___ or even one that said Jew as the Nazis did is appropriately called racism. Just my opinion.
The issue of criminality is a separate issue, and as I’ve stated before, I believe only legal immigrants should receive the benefits that citizens do. If you are here illegally, apply for legal status or leave.
#20: Sorry, but — hard to believe, but true — I occasionally do things in the ‘real world’ away from the computer and DU. I’ll try not to let it happen again!
#22 – Uncle Dave
“I think if you asked 99 out of 100 people who do you think of when you say ‘illegal immigrant’ these days, they would answer Mexican or more broadly, those from south of the border. If they don’t say it to be polite, they certainly are thinking it”
Well, OK. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. I mean, those from Central America are the problematic übermajority of illegals, the selfsame ones who are depressing the wages, shipping the currency out of the country, running up billions in taxpayer-funded social services, &c, &c. So, if, when someone refers to ‘illegal immigrants’, they’re assumed to be talking about those coming across our southern border, no? So how is this ‘racist’ – or if not ‘racist’, how is it discriminatory or whatever? Where is the problem?
So, what I’m saying is, I don’t think I grasp your point…
I was so inspired by today’s “Find the Illegal Immigrant” event at NYU that I created a new merchandise line at my online store, http://www.bobmccarty.com. Information about it is also posted at my blog, http://www.bobmccarty.wordpress.com. Enjoy!
Here are 2 good ones:
1. Great! now we have hit lerian youth in our colleges
2. Can’t wait to have that bill allowing illegal immigrants vote pass (NY state)
lolololololol
#23: While many (like me) don’t care where the illegal workers are from and are looking at the issue as a fairness to legal citizens and US ecconomic issue, many simply use something like this as an excuse to attack a group (Mexicans, etc) they don’t like in a racist way. Illegal worker = Mexican reinforces the stereotypes in a simplistic way that does nothing positive. Deal with the issues instead of making fun of/attacking the people.
I am a german, so i have experiences with nazi history, how this could happen and how ordinary people could have let it come so far. Do you know how beeing a NAZI begins, with actions like that. It´s like Borats funny “Hunt the Jew” game, don´t you think there are other ways to display you disappointment about the temporary situation?
And don´t you think that the usa (as a country that is doubtlessly the biggest poverty producer in the world) has no right to get angry when some poor guys want to cross the border, don´t you think that this is a natural reaction to poverty and if you were a mexican in the same situation, that you would behave different? No, i guess you wouldn´t. But it´s cool to sit (as we germans use to say) high on your horse and do some popular talk to please other people, or to do lobby work.
Wake up guys, start to think with your brains, not with your guns, it´s about human beeings and not your senseless nationalism. You are the richest country in the world with about 90% of the whole existing money. Where is this money, don´t blame Mexicans, blame your banks, insurances, stock exchangers, oil and gun producers……
be tolerant and show some solidarity, that would fit better and make you appear more sympathic in the rest of the world…
disussions are recommended if you´re interested.
thanks for your patience
Ziggy