She knows she's right

I read "Canada's National Newspaper" once a week, mostly for the style section. The news and commentary is only really useful for seeing how a certain sort of closed mind works. Elizabeth Renzetti's mind for example.

This weekend she set about to show us how illegals are "demonized". It's all done, says Renzetti, about the term "anchor baby". It's rare that you see an argument that contradicts itself as blatantly as this one does. Here we go in three quotes from her piece with a bit of emphasis added to highlight the contradiction.

1. 'I admit it: I'm the mother of an anchor baby.'
2. 'They're children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants.'
3. 'My own anchor baby was born when we were living in Los Angeles. I wasn't there illegally but on the sufferance of the horribly named "spouse visa".'

How can an intelligent person write something so obviously self refuting? Not only was Renzetti never an illegal immigrant, it would appear she was never any sort of immigrant at all.

There are all sorts of bizarre things going on here. Notice, for example, how Renzetti fails to see any real distinction between her own comfortable life and that of illegal immigrants. And notice how she, in fact, demonizes the people she is arguing against while complaining they are demonizing others.

But most of all notice how utterly and irredeemably stupid her own argument is. That's the staggering thing. No one with the slightest critical thinking skills could make such a stupid argument. Renzetti is so sure she's right, she's stopped paying attention to the blather coming out of her own mouth.