John Daniel Davidson: Mass Immigration Without Assimilation is a Recipe for National Suicide

I think this is really right.

   The left reasons thusly all the time:

   

   x would be bad / make me sad

   Therefore:

   x is false

   And they think that anything other than unmitigated adulation for nonwhites, the Third World, etc. is racist. And racism is the worst thing in the universe. So, unless you want to be a racist, you have to embrace mass immigration from the Third World.

   Oh and: yeah, I realize the left has decreed the term 'Third World' racist. Which is basically why I insist on using it. If we let them issue perverse, loony, terminological diktats, they're halfway to winning.

   If we go along with them, that is...

   Conservatives say: import the Third World, become the Third World.

   Conservatives, as is so often the case, are much righter about this than the left is. Largely because they're willing to look at the facts and draw conclusions from them--rather than decreeing from the outset that certain propositions can't even be considered and honestly evaluated...because they're racist.

   I mean, that might hold for some very extreme and obviously racist propositions...

   But it doesn't come close to holding for propositions like We should have some controls on immigration.

   It's easy to say things like Everybody is welcome! Come on in!

   It makes you sound cool and laid back and liberal.

   It's not easy to say Yes, I realize that many people have shitty lives back in their shithole countries...but if we let all of them in, all at once, with no assimilation, our country will become a shithole, too. So sorry, but no.

   That makes you sound mean. And, of course, teh razizt!

   Not really--but you know the left.

   It's basically a lifeboat situation. We can save some people and we can help some people but we can't save or help everyone. And if we try to save or help too many, it will end us. That alone is sufficient for us to draw the line somewhere reasonable. There's no need to proceed to: And then we won't be able to help anyone. 

   Our own survival and flourishing matters, too.

   Contrary to what the left thinks.*

   As many conservatives have noted, many on the left would rather help make it likely that their nation and their people will be destroyed in the indefinite future than to be thought to be racist.

   Sadly, that seems to me to be true.

* And maybe remember: the vanguard of the left wants the destruction of the U.S. and the West. The relatively more centrist lefties just can't stand the thought that they might be mean. Let alone razizt! But the average Democrat in the street just wants to be nice...and to be seen as such.