VDARE is a website that publishes columns by some writers who have been branded as racists, or some such. I've yet to find any racist material on VDARE, but I'm not a regular reader of that website.
By commenting the way he did, Fufkin was smearing immigration reformers as closet racists. Lacking anything better than ad hominems, spittle-ridden ranting, and brow-beating Fufkin had to resort to playing the race card.
It is apparent that Fufkin has not read the new guidelines about immigration threads and may want to acquaint himself with them.
Additionally, just today in another thread Jim Robinson stated that he too opposes Bush's amnesty proposal. I wonder if Fufkin is going to smear him as a racist too.
When Jim calls President Bush "Jorge", photoshops him into sombreros and other Mexican garb, well I may wonder about his approach. He doesn't do that crap.
Bush's proposal was about illegal immigrants already here, census bureau saying 30-40% of which are non-Mexican. This is NOT an illegally resident worker or trespasser from Mexico problem, it is a much more important American border security and resident illegal alien accountability problem. All borders. All ethnicities.
This is a vital national concern, but it is absolutely marginalized on this Forum. Bush made a good faith proposal, there's room for people of good will to disagree with the wisdom, but there's no good faith counterproposals (Write in Tancredo HA!) forthcoming from this "think tank".
To some Freepers, whom I don't like one bit, it's at its core a Mexican problem. Legal Immigrant or illegal-immigrant ... THAT's the energy those who feel beseiged by some Bush insult that's keeping 10, 11 or 12 freeping threads running here concurrently 24X7? Gimme a break. They don't like Mexicans. The people. The competition for jobs. The language. The "third world culture". Period. If all illegal immigrants were deported, then brought back over the border legally to their same homes and jobs ... it wouldn't matter ONE IOTA. It's the fact that they are here at all.
No wonder they're not assimilating.
I don't like bigoted stuff. Too bad if you don't like that I don't like bigoted stuff. I see it here, and I'm no polyanna and I'm not working some political program, but I call it when I see it like I would in any other facet of my life outside this cyberplace. You guys go apeshit at even the inference, when it's not personally directed. That speaks volumes to me. Yeah, call me a race baiter ... again. Ouch.