* Another popular fallacy is that American can’t do anything prudent about immigration policy, such as cutting back on new immigrants, because that would enrage the old immigrants so much that they will kill us, or something. So therefore we need more and more immigrants, and then more and more and more immigrants the day after that to keep tomorrow’s immigrants from killing us.
* One of the weird things about listening to the Limbaugh show is that it features PSAs from HUD talking about how great diversity is. Unfortunately, I can’t find a link to or transcript of any of them, but here’s a message at the HUD site:
“DIVERSE NEIGHBORHOODS PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT … AND BEST OF ALL, FRIENDSHIP.
Neighborhood diversity promotes a greater sense of engagement, teaches that stereotypes are wrong and better prepares our children for the global community.”
Every single assertion in that statement is factually incorrect. Obviously, its only purpose is to humiliate us, as Dalrymple has pointed out.
* I drove a cab in NYC in the late 60s and early 70s and all the cabbies were loath to pick up blacks.
* Sailer: There were huge pro-law & order demonstrations by NYC cabbies, most of them immigrants (I would imagine) in the early 1990s to protest that they were being murdered at a rate of about 40 cabdrivers per year. Thousands would get together and drive up Park Avenue honking their horns.
It’s been forgotten because it doesn’t fit in the Narrative.
I spent a couple of weeks at 12th Street and 4th Avenue looking for a job in the summer of 1992. It was fine. Of course, you didn’t go more than a few blocks east. I can’t remember if the border was the middle of Second Avenue or the middle of First Avenue, but there wasn’t anything on the other side of interest unless you wanted to buy drugs. Alphabet City was then a wholly theoretical geographic concept, like the moons of Jupiter.
I can remember visiting Brooklyn once in 1982, eating dinner at an outdoor restaurant that was next to the Brooklyn Bridge and overlooking the skyscrapers of Wall Street across the water, and thinking this place is great, somebody could make a lot of money gentrifying Brooklyn.
One reason for Trump’s popularity among New Yorkers is he bet heavily on New York City when it was in the dumps — e.g., he started constructing a hotel on Times Square in the Taxi Driverish late 1970s.
There are a lot of similarities between Trump and New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who was convinced in the 1970s, against the reigning conventional wisdom that New York ought to be the #1 baseball town in America.
