H/t to Newsbusters for this: The NY Times strikes again, this time if you're against the [now-thwarted] immigration reform bill because you believe it to be akin to amnesty, well, you're like 'dem Jim Crow-lovin' southerners from days of 'ol:
The anti-immigrant hard-core — no amnesty today, no amnesty tomorrow, no amnesty forever — must not be allowed to hold the nation hostage. Like nativists of generations past, they think the country is being Latinized, and they fear it.
And there you have it. The tried and true tactic of labeling your opponent "racist" because you oppose what leigitimately can be dubbed yet another immigrant amnesty plan. Remember George Wallace's line "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," right? That's precisely what the NYT wants your mind to recall.
I wonder if the Times made a similar comparison when the Mayor of Detroit uttered the phrase “We will affirm to the world that affirmative action will be here today, it will be here tomorrow and there will be affirmative action in the state forever” when speaking out against the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI)?
Not that I could find.