"But the real loser in all this is not Acosta or even CNN. It's the American people who learn less than zero from the press conferences, in fact are brutally misled by our media in a wanton and selfish matter."
Immigration: How Trump Derangement Syndrome Dumbs Down the Press
By Roger L Simon August 2, 2017
How many IQ points do you lose from Trump Derangement Syndrome or similar conditions of blind political rage?
I was asking myself that while listening to the stupefying question
asked of Trump adviser Stephen Miller by CNN's Jim Acosta at
Wednesday's White House press conference. Miller had been explaining --
with a level of clarity and specificity not often seen at these events
-- the immigration proposal being proffered by Sens. Tom Cotton and
David Perdue and now being backed by the president. The press audience
appeared impatient with these details, however, waiting to pounce as it
almost always does.
And the
pounce came from Acosta, who was irked the proposal listed some level of
facility with the English language as one of the new preference points
for possible immigration applicants. Wasn't that de facto
discrimination in favor of people from the UK and Australia (read: white
skin privilege)?
Earth to Acosta: As of 2015, there were 54 sovereign states and 27 non-sovereign entities where English was an official language.
These include India (population: 1,247,540,000), Pakistan
(199,085,847), Nigeria (182,202,000), the Philippines (102,885,100),
Tanzania (51,820,000) and Kenya (45,010,056) among, obviously, many
others. In China (population 1.39 billion), almost all school children
begin English in the third grade. In Japan, South Korea and Singapore,
it's also mandatory beginning about the same time. Anyone who's been to
Europe recently knows it's hard to find anyone under fifty in those
countries now who doesn't speak some degree of English. I could
go on, but it's pointless. English has become, for all intents and
purposes, the world lingua franca. The number of possible immigrants
from the UK and Australia is less than minuscule by comparison and the
implication of racism (hidden in plain sight in Acosta's question)
therefore ludicrous. It's the opposite.
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