Where I Find Myself At

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

With all due respect, I cannot endure any media outlet publishing a pile of excrement as an "essay". The notion that the United States is experiencing "unsustainable" levels of immigration is nonsense. In absolute terms, levels of immigration are at historic lows. In relative terms, they have not been as low as the present in generations. The United States is currently experiencing massive labor shortages that are leaving vital industries short-staffed and that are contributing to massive reductions in both the quality of service/care and, also, to price inflation. Instead of the purported benefits of a tight labor market, we are seeing worker wages declining rapidly in real-terms as their jobs become more stressful and exhausting.

If you want to make the case that suspending immigration is desirable because you hate brown skin or people who speak strange tongues, that's all well and good, you are entitled to this form of prejudice. Do not promote empirically untrue claims about immigration reducing wages or harming the economy - this is a load of garbage, utter nonsense etc.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

The fact that this article offends left-wingers so much by simply mentioning demographic change (i.e. population replacement of Europeans) shows exactly why it was so badly needed. If China can be predominantly Chinese and Nigeria can be predominantly Nigerian, why can't Europe and the U.S. - which was built up by Europeans - be predominantly European? Doesn't mean no newcomers are welcome, that would be an absurd position. But a conservative immigration policy does mean prudence both in terms of numbers and in terms of the choice of which newcomers to allow in, as newcomers with more similar cultural backgrounds simply blend in more easily. If we don't do this, what our ancestors have built up is at risk of being washed away, and this is what we're seeing across the West these days.

Please stop merging the United States with the mausoleum and antique museum that is Europe, thanks!

Edit: this is far too heated. What I mean to say is that even though contemporary American immigration policy is extremely restrictive, the vast majority of Americans continue to see immigrants in basically positive terms.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

The fact that this article offends left-wingers so much by simply mentioning demographic change (i.e. population replacement of Europeans) shows exactly why it was so badly needed. If China can be predominantly Chinese and Nigeria can be predominantly Nigerian, why can't Europe and the U.S. - which was built up by Europeans - be predominantly European? Doesn't mean no newcomers are welcome, that would be an absurd position. But a conservative immigration policy does mean prudence both in terms of numbers and in terms of the choice of which newcomers to allow in, as newcomers with more similar cultural backgrounds simply blend in more easily. If we don't do this, what our ancestors have built up is at risk of being washed away, and this is what we're seeing across the West these days.

The group which inspires the most passion in the contemporary American immigration debate are Latinos who afaik are descended from (a) Europeans and (b) people who were in this hemisphere before then so I don’t get the relevance of this argument? Ofc, as a leftie, I dislike the argument as a whole, but I really don’t get the assimilationist argument wrt America in this case – I don’t see why assimilating Latinos is any harder than with immigrant groups in the past? In fact, the opposite might be true?

Nope, sorry, being European culturally is actually a blood quantum and skull shapes, not about traditions and rituals such as "speaking Spanish", "being Christian", "celebrating Catholic feast days", reading Cervantes and Homer etc. All of that isn't culturally European, it actually has nothing to do with Europe - being culturally European is about whether or not Woodrow Wilson thinks you're a "wog" or not.

Ultimately, white nationalists tell on themselves everytime they insist that immigrants from Latin America are cultural freaks. Who, exactly, do they think is responsible for names such as "Texas", "Arizona", "California"? Where do they think the name "New Mexico" comes from - do they think some cute blonde dog walker invented that one? Do they think that the clothes worn by actors in classic Westerns are traditional garb of pilgrim Yankees? Do they think that there is a cowboy culture of Ireland? They are either mental midgets, complete morons, or, they are extreme racists or they are both.