Word: misunderstandings
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...protesters pledged solidarity with all immigrants, consistently referring to illegal immigrants simply as immigrants. But this is to misunderstand the real debate, which does not pit those who are pro-immigration against those who are anti-immigration. Rather, this is a legal question and question of extent: How should we change our laws, and how many immigrants should we let in each year? Few are opposed to immigration; many are opposed to uncontrolled immigration. Besides, to conflate illegal immigrants with immigrants is an egregious affront to America’s 50 million legal immigrants if ever there...
...clear that political reform is off his agenda and seems to be playing to the Communist Youth League; Hu Yaobang headed the group in the 1950s and '60s, and Hu Jintao was its boss in the mid-1980s. Says an editor of a leading Chinese magazine: "Nobody will misunderstand and think Hu Jintao is promoting political reforms...
...Don’t misunderstand me—the employees of the Bank all knowingly make significantly less than their skills would garner in the private sector. But that sacrifice is supplanted with additional assets that lure these economists, lawyers, and administrators into the institution. In thanks for the living the life of the starving intellectual after they leave work, the employees of the bank are surrounded by opulence and given many perks, including a more relaxed schedule than banking usually requires...
Many people seem to misunderstand HSF and the role it plays on campus. Unlike the HRC and the Dems, the HSF is not a political group that takes policy positions; instead, it provides logistical support to a coalition of progressive campus groups, many of which share common goals—and many of whose ideals we share. In asking the Dems to disassociate from the HSF, the Republicans have misinterpreted both the role of HSF at the protest and the role of HSF as a student group on campus. The HSF appropriately represents a collection of progressive groups on campus...
...don’t misunderstand me—I love the song. Whenever I hear the lurching guitar progression and the aw-shucks lyrics (“Preppy girls never looked at me / Why should they? / I ain’t nobody, got nothing in my pocket,” etc.), I beam with old-school geek pride and want to get drunk off one beer and run across the Yard...