You don't know what it's like...

hvp05

Methodically disorganized
... until you've walked in the other guy's shoes.

And therein lies the idea behind Morgan Spurlock's show "30 Days". I have actually liked the idea for certain scenarios.

But, the first episode of the new season is tackling a big issue: immigration. The show's description (from FX's site) says: "A man who has staunch anti-immigration views and is a member of the Minutemen lives with a family of illegal immigrants."

The video preview shows the subject attending an immigrant legalization rally, among other things. At first I thought, "They can not be pushing what it seems!"

Does anyone else think this is stupid, or am I reacting too harshly?
 

born2rebel

New Member
I'm curios...do you think that's stupid? I mean if the guy (i.e. public) is steadfast in his (i.e. their) beliefs, the mind is not going to change. I think the show is not so much to change prospectives as it is to possibly open minds. I for one hope they select me to live the life of a very rich person for 30 days. There's some shoes I can get in to!
 

Railroad

Routinely Derailed
I'd rather watch "Cops," wherein a vanload/truckload of illegal aliens is apprehended and sent back home, or an illegal alien who commits a crime is arrested and gets to go home. Or even, like last night, chased to the border and forced to leave his $100,000 worth of cocaine behind for the cops to grab and dispose of.
 

hvp05

Methodically disorganized
born2rebel said:
I'm curios...do you think that's stupid? I mean if the guy (i.e. public) is steadfast in his (i.e. their) beliefs, the mind is not going to change. I think the show is not so much to change prospectives as it is to possibly open minds. I for one hope they select me to live the life of a very rich person for 30 days. There's some shoes I can get in to!
:howdy: :huggy:

I did not like the way they crafted the preview. The impression was that they want this guy - and the general viewer - to be swayed towards allowing amnesty for illegals.

I like the O'Reilly approach: if I were a poor Mexican I would probably want to live in America so I could achieve a better lifestyle. But I would want to achieve that lifestyle, beginning with becoming a legal citizen. Then trying to assimilate, to a reasonable degree, with 'regular America'.

So yes, I have a problem when the "amnesty for all", "open border" proponents try to pull on heartstrings. Most immigrants are good people... and they still ought to follow the law.
 
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