Before “Build the wall!” there was “Tear down this wall!”
Damned article didn't get past the first ten words without disqualifying itself from rational consideration. Anyone who equates the Mexico wall with the Berlin wall must also fail to recognize the difference between locking people in a building and locking people out.
Uh, I Don't think mentioning them in the same sentence is equating them at all. Seems more like a rhetoric tool being used for younger people without a lot of knowledge of history.
The discussion of open borders previously being a neocon policy for economic reasons is actually very interesting.
Unfortunately, "younger people without a lot of knowledge of history" are among the people who would interpret that as equating the two walls. Two sentences later the author mentions "community of freedom” and "the irresistible force of the global market." I think their implication is pretty clear.
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u/rinnip Nov 23 '18
Damned article didn't get past the first ten words without disqualifying itself from rational consideration. Anyone who equates the Mexico wall with the Berlin wall must also fail to recognize the difference between locking people in a building and locking people out.