This story is published elsewhere with the byline:
The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don’t have birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, so neither should children of noncitizens born in the US
Text looks the same, but for some reason this release of the story doesn’t have a byline.
That suggests this is part of a coordinated misinformation campaign. What the DOJ argued in court that Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924 because it was understood that the 14th amendment passed in 1868 didn’t extend to Indians. That argument has no implications for Indian citizenship—it’s about the source of that citizenship.[1]
A prominent Obama DOJ administration official is repeating the same line on X, further suggesting there’s coordination going on.
[1] Even in 1924, Indians themselves were divided about conferring US citizenship on Indians living on tribal lands because many saw it as a further diminishment of tribal sovereignty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act (“One group who opposed the bill was the Onondaga Nation. They believed acceptance of this act was "treason" because the United States Senate was forcing citizenship on all Indians without their consent.”)
Or even the quasi-counterfactual of imagining what was true from 1868-1924 even though it’s not true after 1924.
An under-appreciated advocacy skill is reframing arguments to make the logical fallacies in the opponent’s argument clearer. You see arguments all the time that beg the question, but nobody really understands what that is. But sometimes you can rephrase that argument in a way that shows it is engaged in circular reasoning, which is easier to identify.
> That suggests this is part of a coordinated misinformation campaign.
It wasn't, it's 1 article that maybe 4 people retweeted. Dems are low energy right now, but not that low energy. Also, Republicans run deliberate misinformation campaigns, not us.
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[ 1.1 ms ] story [ 27.9 ms ] threadThe DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don’t have birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, so neither should children of noncitizens born in the US
Text looks the same, but for some reason this release of the story doesn’t have a byline.
I think you may have intended a different word.
A prominent Obama DOJ administration official is repeating the same line on X, further suggesting there’s coordination going on.
[1] Even in 1924, Indians themselves were divided about conferring US citizenship on Indians living on tribal lands because many saw it as a further diminishment of tribal sovereignty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act (“One group who opposed the bill was the Onondaga Nation. They believed acceptance of this act was "treason" because the United States Senate was forcing citizenship on all Indians without their consent.”)
An under-appreciated advocacy skill is reframing arguments to make the logical fallacies in the opponent’s argument clearer. You see arguments all the time that beg the question, but nobody really understands what that is. But sometimes you can rephrase that argument in a way that shows it is engaged in circular reasoning, which is easier to identify.
It wasn't, it's 1 article that maybe 4 people retweeted. Dems are low energy right now, but not that low energy. Also, Republicans run deliberate misinformation campaigns, not us.