Biden connects Irish heritage with Latino struggles

politico44 ^ | 7/10/12 | BYRON TAU

[ColdOne]

In a pitch to an audience of Hispanic activists, Vice President Joe Biden connected the struggles of Latino Americans to his own Irish heritage.

"There's always been a fight between the voices of inclusion and the voices of exclusion — between those pushing forward and those who continue to try to pull us back," Biden said in remarks to the civil rights group National Council of La Raza.

Biden recalled that Irish Americans too faced a wave of discrimination and bigotry when they arrived en masse in the 19th and 20th centuries, with signs like "No Irish allowed" or "No irish need apply" greeting them in many major American cities.

[Sherman Logan]

"There's always been a fight between the voices of inclusion and the voices of exclusion — between those pushing forward and those who continue to try to pull us back," Biden said in remarks to the civil rights group National Council of La Raza.

A classic comment. Without bothering to prove why this is the case, he just assumes that amnesty for illegals and/or dropping all efforts to control the border constitutes "moving forward."

This is the logical fallacy of petitio principii, or "begging the question"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

[tumblindice]

It’s pretty much the same thing as homosexualists comparing their “struggle” to the civil rights struggles of the `60s.

Black people: “Huh? Say WHAT?!”

[reg45]

IIRC, the Irish did not swiim the Atlantic and enter the country illegally.