Exodus 23:9

 

The passage that I will quote and comment on is from The New American Bible, and it warns Israelis to not oppress an alien. I agree, and that might seem inconsistent with my severe anti-immigration stance on illegal aliens entering United States.

 

I do not support being cruel to or discriminating against foreigners or legal immigrants into our country, and we should not abuse illegal aliens that snuck in, but we should round them up and send them home.

 

America is the best and holiest country that God ever made, and it needs to be preserved to serve as a beacon of hope and right values for the rest of the world to emulate and adopt our culture and values. This near heavenly country on earth is in danger of being overthrown by millions and millions of foreign invaders, both socialistic, altruistic, advocating totalitarian politics, and tyranny and groupism from their home culture. Their multicultural rebellion of being against the American Way cannot be countenanced; they must acculturate our values and mores, and assimilate into the American melting pot.

 

Once we stabilize America again, then we can allow some modest, legal immigration. The kindest but tough-loving solution for aliens come here illegally is to send them home and work with their governments to get those governments to adopt the America Way, constitutional republicanism, and capitalism, and then each of those countries can be little heavens on earth (relatively speaking) too.

 

I think there is one other implication that flows from this admonition to not oppress an alien, and that has to do with racism, bigotry, and discrimination against anyone, domestic or foreign, anyone that is alien to one’s tribe, clique, nation or group.

 

We are all racist and bigoted at heart against individuals or groups even slightly different from us in looks, skin color, ideology, national or ethnic identity, and whether they are an individual that does not fit into our group, or is a member of an alternative group, and we are all racist against those slightly different from us, and we oppress them as aliens in our midst, or as foreigners.

 

Since we are all naturally racist, it will not do to seek to end racism by obsessing about race or class or gender orientation, because one of our group will be favored unjustly, and one not of our group will be discriminated against unjustly.

 

To live in groups, to group identify, and stay with group morality (altruism-collectivism) is to hate ourselves and aliens, so the only cure is act unnaturally and learn socially to be impartial and hate no one.

 

The unnatural and nonracist way to live is to live primarily as individuals, to individual identify and live by individual morality (egoism-individualism); egoism is the loving morality and that is the cure for racism, and the only working cure for racism.

 

Each is to individuate as an individuators and the content of his character is all that counts, not his race or other intersectional group affiliations which categorize him as alien to us.

 

Here is the quote from The New American Bible: “You shall not oppress an alien; you well know how it feels to be an alien, since you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.

 

Here is that same quote from the Holy Bible (KJV): “Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.”