Michael Moore's logic failures
But it feeds his audience the shallow thinking they crave
The world according to the far left is such an uncomplicated place. If a man thinks he’s a woman, then why not. If we need to stifle speech in the name of free speech, sounds good. If an immigrant wants to live off the bounty the U.S. has to offer, then why not, everyone’s welcome. Walls are racist after all.
On the latter issue, Michael Moore strapped on his rose-colored snorkeling mask and dove deep into the issue without realizing that his visibility on logic was only as far as his nose would go.
He provides this narrow view via a Substack piece “Our Muslim Boy Wonder”, which -spoiler alert- refers to Steve Jobs whose father was from Syria. No mention of the mother’s citizenship, which means she was a U.S. citizen, and Moore has no idea how the father got to the U.S., legally or otherwise. See, open borders are a good thing because we got Steve Jobs.
He then lists a dozen others who made positive impacts, all immigrants, all entering the U.S. legally (although Congresswoman Tlaib’s impacts are for another post). Then Moore’s leap. Put on your track shoes, your jet pack, and helmet because Michael’s jumping all the way from people here legally to the cruelty of removing those entering the country illegally. To make sure you haven’t forgotten the child of an American mother and Syrian father, Moore brings Steve Jobs back into the rant. Someone clearly forgot the helmet part of his leap.
He ends with a touching scene depicting “the little girl who would’ve one day grown up to be the scientist who discovered the cure for cancer” if she could have only stayed.
Moore overlooks the obvious logical fallacies with his rant.
Perhaps he just under appreciated the gray areas of his plea, or wasn’t familiar with the concept of logic, or knew he didn’t need to delve into those gray areas since he understands his audience.
We already discussed how his examples represented immigrants in the U.S. legally, so here are a few additional logical points neglected:
“Illegal” doesn’t become “legal” for millions of people in the country just because someone might do great and magical things in the future. Or maybe we missed the cancer research lab Tren de Aragua was setting up in those Colorado apartments.
If one out of millions might cure cancer, then imagine the impact if we could get eight billion people to move here. Utopia! But the logic of open borders has never been a very well thought-out, long-term concept.
If there’s a chance that one immigrant might cure cancer sometime in the future, how many new victims who happen to be U.S. citizens must we bear today. Even if you accept the left’s premise that the crime rate (ignoring the illegal crossing part) is no worse than the average of the current citizenship, we’re still at a 2,291/100,000 per year rate (2023 FBI data). That translates to 10’s of thousands of new victims a year from murder, rape, assault, or theft.
Moore’s logic is exactly why those under 18 are not allowed to vote; their brains haven’t been fully developed yet, either.