By Paul Weiser
Perhaps the most poisonous epithet in the liberal arsenal is "racist." The trouble with it is that there can be no racism without a race.
Liberals tarbrush attempts to combat illegal residence in the United States by calling them "racism." That might work concerning Irish or Zulus, but the primary nationality in the basura deluge is Mexican... which simply is not a race by any definition.
Mexicans are a hybrid nation consisting of many distinct tribes of aborigines (since the Ice Age, anyway) such as Aztecs, Maya, and the like interbred with Spanish stock. The Spanish consist of a further hybridization of real races - pre-Roman Iberian tribes, Roman invaders, Visigoths, Vandals (an important barbarian tribe of the Dark Ages, not British football hooligans) and Muslim invaders... themselves a hybrid of Arabs, Syrians, Egyptians and Islamicized North African tribes. To this add African ex-slaves and you have a truer melting pot than New York City in 1890.
It's true Mexicans themselves make intricate pseudo- racial distinctions among themselves - "Castilian," mestizo, Creole, Indio and the like, purportedly based on ancestry but in fact the visual underpinnings of a corrupt regional/class structure. The point is that while facilitators of illegal residency such as "La Raza" may call Mexicans a race and Americans recognize illegals by the Indio genetic strain in Latin Americans (red-brown skin and a slight Asiatic cast to the features), this - like Mexican Spanish as mother-tongue - detects Mexican nationality... which is nothing like a race. In fact, Mexico being an utterly failed nation, it doesn't even define a nationality, only a primary source of our invaders.
Racism may or may not be the worst thing in the world. What's certain is that resistance to Mexican illegals is not racism but fully justified defense of American nationality, culture, and law.
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