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by TimorousBestie 17 days ago
> Wanting to control immigration flows so immigrants don't change American culture isn't "xenophobia.“

Such desires can be and have been xenophobic. You’re welcome to prove that they’ve never been. I would like to see you revise the Federalists’ own history for once, instead of someone else’s.

> It's the moral right of people in a democracy to control the flow of people to limit cultural change.

You’ve elided a premise along the lines of “moral rights cannot be exercised in a xenophobic manner,” which is incorrect.

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Immigration changes society. People who like their society the way it is, and don’t want it to become more like the places the immigrants come from, are entitled to vote against that. They don’t owe you any explanation.