B.W.Jackson

Starting my Lenten observance away from the platform, though I will be posting articles here from my Substack account, @bwjackson1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@bwjackson1 & will continue my weekly amateur genealogy series at @Aus_Bloodlines. Saint Carlo Acutis - keep me strong in the dopamine desert.

@__BreadMaker__ Am off right now. Back soon.

@VeryInsig I haven't seen a post from you for a month - have other people been seeing your posts?

A soccer player raised in Australia has chosen to represent his ancestral homeland, Croatia. I understand his decision. Affinity tracks culture. And in a multicultural society, culture and location no longer align. Link to my article on this topic in the first reply ↓

@GeraldPimm I think with players it’s often driven by opportunity, but when it’s fans it’s probably a reflection of loyalties.

@VeryInsig This happens with rugby league in massive numbers

@DrewPavlou x.com/veryinsig/stat…

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Why Australia Deports So Few Foreign Criminals Liberalism Implies Foreigners Are Entitled to Live Here — Even If They Commit Crimes bwjackson1.substack.com/p/why-australi…

Why do foreigners found guilty of serious crimes so often get to stay in Australia? Liberalism. The logic of liberal principles implies that everyone is entitled to live in Australia - including foreign criminals. Link to my article on this topic in the first reply ↓

This week’s instalment of my @Aus_Bloodlines series shows the importance of checking the married names of female ancestors when they re-marry after being widowed. You can find some interesting stuff in the newspapers if you do that.

@RealLeeRoberts Mass immigration has always been supported by big business . It keeps wages low & increases the number of consumers they can sell to without having to work hard to build export markets.

@VeryInsig The interesting part you touch on is progressives affinity for big business and the "billionaires", yet this is a vector for attack against Hanson for her connection to Rinehart. As the saying goes: if it wasnt for double standards they'd have no standards at all.

One Nation’s recent surge in the polls has rattled Australia’s progressive political class. The masks are coming off & their responses actually help explain why One Nation is now surging. Link to my article on this topic in the first reply ↓

The Masks Come Off What One Nation’s Surge Is Revealing bwjackson1.substack.com/p/the-masks-co…

@alexq31368742 What is the source for that projection?

@VeryInsig 5 years mate

Australia’s immigration policy is set to make Australians of European ancestry a minority in coming decades. If you support the policy, you should acknowledge & justify this transformation of our ethnic composition. Own it. Link to my article on this topic in the first reply ↓

@dark_impromptu And?

@VeryInsig If ten million Brits or ten million Americans moved here, the culture would also be different, dude.

@PoliticsFollow6 @RestoreAussies We will take in whoever we decide to take in. The future ethnic composition of Australia will be determined by the immigration policy we CHOOSE. You keep avoiding the question. Do you want an immigration policy that will increase the Asian-ancestry population to 30% or 40%?

@VeryInsig @RestoreAussies The immigration patterns have changed over time. We don’t know what the intake will be in 30-40 years. We might get more migrants from South America, Eastern Europe or Africa.

@PoliticsFollow6 @RestoreAussies So you accept the principle that we should manage our immigration intake in a way that manages our ethnic composition. Do you have a problem if Asian ancestry increases from 17.4% to 30%? 40%?

@VeryInsig @RestoreAussies No, I don’t support 15% from any one ethnicity.

@PoliticsFollow6 @RestoreAussies Whether we will or we won’t completely depends on what immigration policies we adopt. We could easily get 15% from one country if we decide to do that. Do you have a problem if we were to do that? Do you have a problem if Asian ancestry increases from 17.4% to 30%? 40%?

@VeryInsig @RestoreAussies That is 17% from all Asian ancestries. We are not going to have 15% from just one Asian country. Realistically, the max is probably 6-7% from any single minority ethnicity.

@RestoreAussies @PoliticsFollow6 Our individualistic & non-clannish nature allowed us to get very good at living & working with strangers from within our culture. But there are two problems. We're not good at recognising our collective identity & interests. And we assume people from other cultures are like us.

Yes - We are naturally tolerant and open minded, and we don’t like enforcing our ideas on others. Liberalism is quite innate in English and therefore British culture: open markets, free trade, freedom of religion, equality before the law and freedom of expression are great, but come with an ideological achilles heel. We are too open minded and pluralistic sadly for our own good.

@RestoreAussies @PoliticsFollow6 True, but an inconvenient reality is that English culture is relatively individualistic & non-tribal. That made us very prone to accepting liberalism. And that includes accepting ideas like civic nationalism. Millions of us vote for liberal ideas.

Agree completely. The original nations were completely British Anglo cultured western nations with 95-99% super majorities of their own people when the mass migration experiment began. “Values based”, “propositional” or “civic nationalism” based societies, are all just phrases and theories that are dreamt up to placate the majority group into accepting their invasion and erasure. Australia and the other Anglo nations aren’t just ideas or concepts based on abstract values, and believing so creates the conditions where our nations become a faceless economic zone, where all the races of the world congregate for their own economic betterment. We have a situation in the west where we have multiple cultures now living parallel lives to one another in the same societies, which becomes highly problematic as the majority Anglo group gets smaller and smaller. They now fall into competition with one another.

@PoliticsFollow6 @RestoreAussies 17.4% of people reported Asian ancestry in the 2021 census. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people from Asian countries have moved here. If we continue, we could easily have 15% of our population from just one Asian country. Do you have a problem with that or not?

@VeryInsig @RestoreAussies Which minority group is going to become 15-20% of the population?

@PoliticsFollow6 @RestoreAussies Any “core values” were sustained, to the extent they were, because there was a MAJORITY culture. An immigrant will become less tribal if his tribe is just 2% of the population. But he will stay very tribal if his tribe is 15-20%. Please - think!

@VeryInsig @RestoreAussies The culture has changed over time, yes. But not the core values. And that is because immigrant groups over time become more cosmopolitan and less ethnically tribal. There are exceptions but that is the general trend in Australia.