Because I don’t want people I don’t know to enter my house uninvited, invade my personal space, and threaten my family.
Damn.
I guess you got me, xenophobes. Build the wall, or whatever.
But first, a thread...
A stranger attempting to enter my house is, geospatially speaking, a bit more jarring than a stranger trying to enter my country.
So, let’s make this argument a bit more analogous.
And let’s supppse that I share this house with 300 million or so other people. And, collectively, we are trying to determine whether or not we should lock our door.
I find this odd, since people in some rooms of our house kill people in other rooms every day.
Why assume people entering are any more of a threat than the ones already here?
We inherited it from our parents, who inherited from their parents, etc. etc. all the way back to our ancestors who stole it from the previous residents and enslaved others to make renovations.
We say that anyone can come into our house and achieve greatness within its walls.
We call our house the neighborhood’s dream home.
At the same time we post a sign on our front door that says, “No soliciting!”
Um, no. No, we don’t.
All we need are rules for the house
(And keeping people out of the house doesn’t count).
We are living on stolen land; the very least we can do is be “generous” in deciding who can live on it with us.
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