What I find interesting about the Slate piece is that it looks like the rhetorical conversation is moving away from "these people are inferior" to "our culture is superior and needs preservation", which sounds an awful lot like the segregationists' point of view from not that far in the recent past, and anti-immigrant rhetoric is lining up with this new old interpretation. It's so smooth, I think people will soon start spouting again how we've always been at war with Eastasia.
Good for those people who refused to be political pawns for a photo opportunity, although I saw a snarly comment attached to such a photo-op with a child that other regimes used orphans for this purpose as well.
And I would think that the city could level garnishment or other liens against the income and assets of the campaign until they got paid, and that would be enforceable. Given that the Administrator's strategy seems to be "ignore it until they sue, then drag it out in court until it's cost more than the recuperation would be worth," though, I'd like to see them engage in whatever collection practice they can that either can't be challenged in court or otherwise doesn't take very long to process and render a judgment with.
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Date: 2019-08-11 11:09 pm (UTC)Good for those people who refused to be political pawns for a photo opportunity, although I saw a snarly comment attached to such a photo-op with a child that other regimes used orphans for this purpose as well.
And I would think that the city could level garnishment or other liens against the income and assets of the campaign until they got paid, and that would be enforceable. Given that the Administrator's strategy seems to be "ignore it until they sue, then drag it out in court until it's cost more than the recuperation would be worth," though, I'd like to see them engage in whatever collection practice they can that either can't be challenged in court or otherwise doesn't take very long to process and render a judgment with.