If it is unfair to hold the local Creative Loafing outpost to any kind of journalistic standard, just say so and I’ll stop forever more. Until then, say hello to the “mighty whitey” thesis on taxpayer subsidized higher education for illegal immigrants.
Evidently, it is white fear of non-whites that drives opposition to providing substantial government benefits to undocumented college students. There exists no non-racist basis for questioning a public policy of taxing one group of people more heavily — let’s call them “citizens” — than another group — let’s call them “non-citizens” — while extending exactly the same benefits to both groups. In this case the identical benefit would be in-state tuition for citizens and non-citizens alike. There can no longer be any doubt that this is the goal of open border activists. They just said so.
Let’s understand what this claim means. A lifelong resident of say Taxahaw, SC who traces their family residency and American citizenship back to the Revolutionary War would pay higher — much higher — tuition to attend a North Carolina state institution of higher learning than would a citizen of Guatemala who spent three years attending a high school in Union County. The entire concept of in-state vs. out-of-state tuition — a distinction with regard to athletic scholarships which routinely sends the Uptown paper around the bend — would be rendered arbitrary and capricious once citizenship no longer matters. And by all means point to California and other permissive admissions jurisdictions and explain why North Carolina would want to follow those dubious footsteps.
The kicker — and this may be a low blow to point out but what the hell — is that Creative Loafing actually calls any kind of curbs or restrictions on non-citizens receiving state-supported higher education a policy of “legal discrimination.”
Whitey is mighty indeed — blindingly so it would seem.
