[Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate for 2016

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jan 20, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton3 at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> <<
> 
>> "We've never, in the history of this country, passed any laws or done
>> anything based on race or religion."
>> 
> 
> That isn't the full quote, or at least not the full sentence, and the rest
> of it puts it in context. I think it is careless to attribute it to her
> without the context.
> 
> DanG
> 
>>> 
> 
> Though even with the full quote, Haley seems to have missed the (few?) times when the USA did restrict immigration based on on ethnicity.

More than few, I'd say, although perhaps someone with a more detailed knowledge of the history of restrictive immigration laws and policies (including those barring/restricting entry to those of her own Sikh ethnicity) might chime in usefully.  I believe she also missed the Japanese internment episode, which certainly relates to race, ethnicity, and immigration.  Granted, her point was that we *shouldn't* be doing this, but what she said (even in context) is that we never did.  (Arguably, though, even I'm right in taking her claim to indeed be false, I agree that what she did fails to qualify as "outright lying".)

LH
> 
> But I'd agree with Dan that the selective dumping on what Haley said is somewhat unfair-- she's nowhere near Trump's league.
> 
> I'm tempted to say, the difference between disingenuousness and outright lying.
> 
> But hey, isn't that what politicians are for?
> 
> Robin Hamilton
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.americandialect.org&d=AwICAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=kxFtQyh0xhqOVoSw46VvM19xtyoW5W5pcZPvcDioKKU&s=o6t-e0ZaL0L7lyj7qFccsxA2ZZX1zHNSRP4xqQ58mxU&e= 

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org