[mothballed]

Your world view is so shattered that someone espousing a few of the views of some right-wing people doesn't match what you think, that you refuse to believe it. Instead you suggest your own vicious introduced stereotype, that if someone is a "parasite" or "non productive" that it must refer to an immigrant -- that says as much guilt about you as you think it does about me.

[u03c6]

Is really interesting how language breaks sometimes. I guess I am from a really different context than you, while reading those words (parasite, non-productive) I had to choose an interpretation and depending on that I might be really close to what you say or really against it. On this case I think some of the replies took a different option and that is why the answered like that.

[lovich]

Nah, I called him out for the dog whistles because that’s exactly what he’s doing.

He’s being vague enough that he can trot out some defense of “I didn’t say the exact word ‘immigrant’” even though the context of the conversation is about immigrants and he’s using right wing talking points about immigration. He even included the “actually you’re the one with bad thoughts cause you recognize my dog whistle” reversal.

It’s an amazing strategy because somehow, despite a decade of this kind of communication strategy, there’s still the clueless or the hopeful who want to assume good faith and then will defend these people against anyone calling them out.