The name-calling

Submitted by Octavio Johanson (Italy), May 31, 2006 at 05:00

I have a relatively long experience with the immigration issue. As I was discussing with the American gentleman, Sidda, on the other post, debates about immigration give rise to name-calling. The media are good at that. If you even mention the issue, you are a 'racist', a 'bigot', an 'islamophobe', a 'right-winger'. Maybe I worry too much. But, all this name-calling makes it impossible to have a decent debate on immigration. Oh, I have said the word 'immigration'. I must be a 'fascist', then.

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