Vox Day and Deportation

Vox Day http://voxday.blogspot.com/2006/05/one-of-saner-critics.html is getting a lot of mileage out of his assertion that it is possible to deport 12 million “illegal aliens” because the Nazis deported and killed 6 million Jews in about 4 years. It appears that his statement has been interpreted as advocacy of Nazi-like policies of deportation and genocide; however, I can’t find any indication that Vox Day advocates any such thing. I am not even sure that he is anti-immigrant at all (unless the immigrant is a woman).

Vox Day holds some unusual, illiberal views, and he seems to delight in making provocative statements and then posting some of the criticisms with his own rejoinders. He assumes a persona that is intellectually arrogant. That’s his schtick. He pisses people off the makes fun of them when they criticize him. Sometimes this is entertaining; sometimes it is downright toxic, especially when he puts on his he-man woman haters club hat.

Vox Day’s assertion about the possibility of mass deportation contradicts GW Bush’s assertion that it would be impossible. At first, I thought Vox Day’s statement was gratuitous pedantry. Of course, deportation is “possible”; it’s just not feasible unless you adopt authoritarian means and set up a police state. I am beginning to wonder, though, whether the assertion is a poetic way of making precisely the point that doing what the know-nothings demand requires a Nazi-like society to bring off.

In this subtle way, Vox Day paints the know-nothings as Nazis, and he does it without violating Godwin’s Law. Also, he can plausibly deny that he is making any such accusation when a know-nothing protests. And the protesting know-nothing reveals that he really is a fascist just by protesting.
I am pretty sure that Vox Day knew that he was going to be called a Nazi when he wrote his assertion. IHe seems to be enjoying the foreseeable reaction.