The reaction to the US government restricting access to foreign nationals is interesting to me. On the one hand, people rail against US imperialism. On the other, they get angry when they don’t have access to the tools of empire. It feels very “What have the Romans ever done for us?”
andsoitis•1h ago
And this is where one might as well stop reading.
This is standard practice for nation states. To call it racism is braindead and lazy.
zhoBEENG•1h ago
the_mitsuhiko•1h ago
Author here. Just because something is standard practice does not mean this should be a goal. I do not want to live in a world where the north star is dividing people based on their birthplace lottery. I might accept it as a temporary local maximum that countries are optimizing towards but that does not mean I have to subscribe to that as a general destination or even the most optimal one.
PaulHoule•1h ago
https://ericksonian.com/reverse-meta-model-nominalizations
though there are so many pernicious language patterns that projects like E-Prime (the verb “to be” goes to together with nominalization like peanut butter goes with jelly) are doomed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
haritha-j•43m ago