i dont see the problem. there is a very close connection between xenophobia and racism--read through this thread if you doubt it---and groups like the minutemen operate in an ambiguous space wherein the two often drift into and (superficially) out of each other--personally, i think the possibility of this drift (both ways) is a significant element of such appeal as this sorry group has.
is the problem that a formal affiliation was posited?
what difference does that really make?
they are of a piece with a deeply problematic logic concerning immigration and/or migrant labor flows. and this is not a recruitment site for the minutemen, so it seems to me that the folk who support them should own the implications of the logic that makes them possible.
unless you seriously believe that a group like the minutemen can distinguish the logic upon which they operate from racism simply by not affiliating with explicitly racist organizations. that seems to me a public relations matter, having nothing at all to do with the actual issue of whether a militia group predicated on xenophobia that deploys to "protect the border" from contamination is in itself problematic. i think it is problematic. i think it is deeply problematic, based on the same kind of nitwit logic that gingrich used in his weekend bonbon that is the starting point for this sad sad thread.
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