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I would honestly ask why you believe people of privilege should be allowed to ignore laws that are inconvenient? You'll get no argument that our immigration la
by dizlexic 1y ago
I would honestly ask why you believe people of privilege should be allowed to ignore laws that are inconvenient?
You'll get no argument that our immigration laws aren't broken from me, but isn't it the purview of congress to change them? I'd even go a step further and say this is the root of the dysfunction in America. The belief that inconvenient laws should / can just be bypassed by a strong executive instead of placing pressure on a congress that is afraid to make any hard choices.
- mindslight 1y agoI don't subscribe to the "privilege" paradigm because it just feels like an emotional appeal for attacking anyone that has some modicum of resources or power, and that feels exactly what your first sentence is doing. I agree with where you're coming from about congress and the executive. The difference is analogous to punching down vs punching up. If the system wants buy in (ie a mandate) from individuals, then it's the responsibility of the system (ie the politicians) to make a sensible set of rules. Take a look at drug criminalization - it's only the very myopic complaining about things like individuals not following nonsensical drug laws. A multinational corporation obviously sits somewhere in the middle, which requires applying equitable judgement (hence why I called out the "privilege" label as a toxic paradigm). It sure feels like this is the government crushing what is otherwise mostly desirable behavior, behavior directly in line with the current administration's purported overall goals. And at any rate, the situation certainly could have been treated with a much lighter touch.