The mathematical discipline of Euclidean Geometry involves deducing the logical basis for previously accepted general principles (theorems) by progressive deduction from serially presented mathematical truisms (“axioms”). The successive progression of accepted principles logically leads to the contextually presented principle (“QED”). It may be enlightening and helpful to analogize the reductive basis of immigration to the express rationality of geometry.. The bias of xenophobia, which notably occupies a fixed and rancorous place in society, unfortunately, of such prominence in society as to be reflective of its nuanced social and political character.
In this writing, we attempt to examine the metaphysical cause of its analogously fixed, geometric “given,” viz., xenophobia, a pervasive prejudice that, in our view, warrants fundamental metaphysical examination. An analogous “time out,” an inquiry into its ubiquitous motivation, may prove enlightening and beneficial to its understanding, and, hopefully, be of assistance in its amelioration. Our focus is on its domestic dynamic, for understandable reasons. pragmatic and didactic.
Prejudice against immigrants (xenophobia), simply put, is a species of bigotry based on the perception that immigrants are “different,” “strange,” or somehow upsetting to the existing order. This appears to constitute an empirically false delusional ideation, when one considers that the United States is, and has been, populated by immigrants and their progeny, and whose welcome has been officially and prominently articulated by the Nation’s iconic Statue of Liberty.
We would inquire as to the existence of any supporting principles or rational basis for the assertion of “difference.” Certainly not an empirically based concern relating to a shortage of jobs or to a dearth of residential venues. It is notable , relative to this contested subject is the fact that the High Priest of Xenophobia, the orange Monarch, himself, has been married three times, each to a foreign immigrant.
Returning to our conceived and contrasting analogy with Euclidean geometry, the egregiously neurotic and immutable basic, “given,” (xenophobia), i.e., the adamantly asserted hatred of foreign immigrants, is not deducible or rationally resolvable by any rationally logical process of deduction from erstablished antecedent premises; nor otherwise supported by empirically rational argument. Contrary to the propagandic defamation by Trump, immigrants prove to have a lower crime rate than the average American citizen, are generally known to be hard-working, family people who pay taxes and serve in the military. As to the category of individuals, termed “illegal” immigrants, the “illegality” refers merely to their lack of required registration and not to moral turpitude; notably, one can have great difficulty in observing the critical difference, by their harsh treatment by Trump’s face- masked private Gestapo, “ICE.”
Simply stated, “Immigration” is the chosen action to move permanently to another country; in this case, to the United States. In this American Nation, historically populated by immigrants and their progeny, it is sadly ironic, but empirically inarguable, that extensive prejudice and discrimination exist against immigrants in business, criminal justice, the economy, housing, health care, and politics. If immigration simply connotes the desire to live better in America, what is the reasonable justification for the eternally roiling dispute dominating the news media?
Unlike the logical dynamics of the contextual discipline of geometry, there exists no rational principle underlying the irrational, undeserved, a priori concept (the “given”) of xenophobic prejudice, the latter by bright contrast with the rationally logical discipline of Euclean Geometry, evincing no supporting process of axiomatic support toward its reductively irrational conclusion.
The undemocratic and unethical bias can be seen and rejected as atavistic and existing despite an entire lack of logical or empirical support.
Unlike the rational underpinning of geometry, xenophobia is clearly not generated by the exercise of reason; its reductively unsupported existence should be appropriately reconsidered where relevant, and beneficially rejected as based upon a primitive and eternally perpetuated delusion.
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