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Every worry that people have about illegal immigration would be astronomically worse without birthright citizenship. We'd have a permanent unassimilated underclass instead of a temporary one.
David J. Bier@David_J_Bier
Why would following the citizenship law that has governed this area for over 400 years be suicidal? We've excelled because of it, not in spite of it. All nativist apocalyptic claims are built on a fundamental anti-Americanism.
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@kimthecynic @xwanyex Do you think the Alabamans are the same as New Englanders?
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Progressives are way too quick to invoke hate as an explanation for people’s behavior. There is almost no racial hatred in the United States, for example. That’s just not a big factor. The overwhelming majority of people you meet on either side of the aisle have much less intense opinions about race than that.
If you think that hate is a big, important, motivating, salient factor in American discussions about race, then you’re starting like a mile behind the starting line and it’s very unlikely that you have any idea what’s actually going on.
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@Nemtastic1 @xwanyex Again, you didn’t give an example. Can you think of at least one?
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It’s important to pause every once in a while and reflect on the fact that this is what passes for really smart liberalism. There are more people in New York, so they should get to decide the direction of the country. People thousands of miles away in smaller states should just deal with this, because they’re less important. The compromises that led to the status quo are somehow completely irrelevant today.
There are no important cultural or organizational principles that conflict with this outlook. It’s all very simple and totally stable and produces no interesting downsides.
Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐@TrueSlazac
No one is wronged with the popular vote, every individual gets exactly the same amount of representation and cities’ political power is proportional to their population as it should be New York *should* have a thousand times more power than a small Midwest town because it’s more important
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@mattyglesias It’s only clear if you pretend history never happened and bargains struck between sovereign entities in the last have no relevance today.
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@mattyglesias You guys think “emanations from penumbras” is constitutional law so who cares that you think something violates the constitution?
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@May_andrews_98 @allie__voss What makes you think that education can work? What exactly do you think you can teach them that everyone doesn’t already know?
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I have friends who were raped by guys they were on a date with (after her father shook his hand and he took her to see a movie), at their college (he took her to his house while she repeatedly said “take me home”), or at a house party (not that it matters, but she was sober and he trapped her in a bathroom). They all repeatedly told their rapists to stop.
It’s not realistic for women to walk everywhere followed by their dad with a gun protecting them, and all of those boys were not insane lunatic strangers, they were regular boys from regular families attending regular schools and in regular extracurricular activities.
They’re not mutually exclusive, but these pics and messages are very obviously designed to make a point that, yes, men and boys need to be taught not to rape. It’s obviously not going to stop all rape, but there are regular boys from regular families who might not rape if it’s been instilled in them not to. Clearly, “my son would never do that, he doesn’t need to be taught” isn’t true - I’m willing to bet none of the aforementioned boys’ mothers know their sons are rapists, and yet, they are.
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@Curiouskitty907 @allie__voss Of course it’s the rapist’s fault. But you can’t fix a rapist by “educating” them.
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@bootlegaz_tees @NotFrodo @Martin_Sellner “Ability to think in terms of statistics instead of feelings is MAGA.”
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@NotFrodo @Martin_Sellner Here goes the MAGA colored photo graph that’s far from reality 🤣
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These are the consequences of anti-white policies!
“DEI” has robbed an entire white generation of their careers and thus the realization of their life plans.
The infographics show the impact of the "DEI" policies on a whole generation of white male millennials.
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@jodyjodie @Martin_Sellner You think white people think of each other as “family” lol?
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@Martin_Sellner 90% of the people doing the hiring look just like you. Maybe you all should have a family meeting.
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@xwanyex It’s a statement that makes sense for the original purpose, which is that you can’t tell much about a single individual by their group membership.
People have internalized that so much however they apply that same thinking when discussing the groups as such.
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“Genetic variation within so-called racial groups is greater than between them” is one of those things where even just hearing it for the first time you should be like, “wait, this simply cannot be meaningfully true”
Conor Friedersdorf@conor64
What she intends to say, without really understanding it, if I had to guess, is something like, ***"race" isn't a valid biological category, as humans share 99.9% of their DNA, and genetic variation within so-called racial groups is greater than between them, with racial classifications being socially constructed, historical labels for political and social hierarchy, not distinct subspecies***
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@conor64 @SwipeWright Yet AI can reliably identify my race from a picture of me. And east asians live significantly longer than everyone else, even ones in poor countries like Vietnam.
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What she intends to say, without really understanding it, if I had to guess, is something like, ***"race" isn't a valid biological category, as humans share 99.9% of their DNA, and genetic variation within so-called racial groups is greater than between them, with racial classifications being socially constructed, historical labels for political and social hierarchy, not distinct subspecies***
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"There's no scientific evidence to prove that a black woman and a white woman are genetically different."
This level of biological illiteracy is almost impossible to comprehend. This person thinks skin color (beyond a tan) is environmentally determined?
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Politics can be boring when everyone is Iowan. When everyone shares a cultural baseline and historical experiences politics can be very boring.
By contrast, there is a single multi-cultural society on earth where politics isn’t explosive. That’s Singapore, where societal harmony is maintained with extreme authoritarianism.
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@greggnunziata Politics was supposed to be this boring but important duty you had to broadly follow and cast a vote every few years.
Make politics boring again.
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Watch presidential debates from the 80s or further back and it will blow your mind and make you weep for the country we could be
Sizwe SikaMusi@SizweLo
I seem to remember this being a dumb man when I was growing up🤔 2011:
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We went from under 5% foreign born population in 1970 to almost 15% today. Counting their kids, probably 30-40% of Americans are socialized into cultures very different from the Anglo-Protestant culture that built America.
Many of those people are from cultures that have a paternalistic view of government. As a result, these new Americans overwhelmingly vote for the party that favors bigger government. That’s a huge change.
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@texanscouse35 @greggnunziata It is easier to distract the electorate with quibbles of "issues" that are entertaining but will be meaningless 5 years from now or even a year. This creates the illusion of "a world in flux".The world isn't any more in flux than it has ever been.Nothing's changed.But we changed.
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@jhog667 @greggnunziata There is a large public demand for mass deportation. 49% of people approve of Trump on immigration in the Harvard-Harris poll: harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/upl… (page 9).
Deporting all illegal immigrants is at 54-46 approval (page 23)
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@greggnunziata The very odd thing about the 2020s,unlike the 1920s,is that there is no public demand for protectionism on trade or for mass deportation. And yet enough people are willing to vote for a man for president who clearly ran on those issues. We have a collapse of our civic culture.
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@greggnunziata nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opi…
Whose fault is it that they’re gone?
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@RioVeradonir @JamesSurowiecki But 80% of south asians are Democrats. And for every H1B that comes here and gets a green card, they can bring in a dozen or more family members via chain migration.
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@Muji91233 @ChiefEngineerCE @JamesSurowiecki 18 years isn’t that long! 18 years ago Obama was running for the Democratic nomination. And in fact that’s about how long it took for H1Bs to flip my hometown from red to blue.
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@ChiefEngineerCE @JamesSurowiecki GC takes 50 years for indians so shut up with that jon sense. Children can't vote until they turn 18.
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No but they’re a pathway to citizenship from countries where people have a paternalistic relationship with government and a long history of socialism—specifically India. Then they’re the root of chain migration from those countries. 1 H1B can easily turn into a dozen reliable Democrat votes within 10-15 years.
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