September 25, 2015 Giving Up The Burden Of White Privilege Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Giving Up The Burden Of White Privilege

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

Troubled Conservative gay rabbi (who came out when he had three teenage kids and a wife) writes in the Washington Post:

Jews in America struggled for decades to become white. Now we must give up whiteness to fight racism.
Let’s teach our children that we are, in fact, not white, but simply Jewish.

Heartiste: Giving up the burden of white privilege to “fight racism”, aka to “freely shit in the faces of flyover White goyim in perpetuity and pull the Eskimo card whenever there’s a faint whiff of wholly justified blowback against our machinations”. How magnanimous!

(If you wonder why I used the “our” possessive pronoun above, do note that the chosen-not-frozen author staked his dialectical ground using the royal “we”.)

Of course, this “white privilege” he wants to give up is actually the albatross of “white defenselessness” he doesn’t want hanging around his neck now that it’s open season on Whites in America. It’s easier to subvert the once-dominant-but-now-a-fag69 White culture when you can simultaneously evade collateral damage and also receive protection from return fire by claiming anti-White fringe coalition membership.

Comments at the Chateau:

* It‘s always been part of their plan. Obfuscate the surname, blend in your host’s territory when it suits. Once ingrained, and having secured the important strategic bridgeheads in media and holowood, stand apart from the new world ordure you’ve created, while pointing at the brain-dead blanks and shrieking, “they did it!”
Sad but true, actually. The damage was done a long time ago, as whole generations of nominally white people forgot their heritage and sold their birthright for a mess of pottage.

* They wanted to be white just long enough to amass vast wealth and power, and a tax subsidised homeland. Now that they have it made, they want to morph into something else.

Maybe they should give up the burden of their vast wealth first. That is the greatest of all privilege.

* Right in the first paragraph that eskimo says something 100% false,

“…how, in light of Ferguson, Charleston and seemingly endless incidents of injustice against black people in our society, she felt a need to grapple with the racism that is so pervasive in this country and how it affects her identity…”

Wasn’t it in Ferguson that black giant Michael Brown tried to grab the gun from a police officer and that was minutes after that gentle giant had roughed up a store owner and this was captured on video?

What was the racial injustice against Michael Brown?

Had he managed to grab the gun he would have shot the police officer.

There is no endless incidents of injustice against blacks, there is an endless number of crimes committed by blacks ( most of their victims are other blacks ) and an endless number of blacks who resist arrest or attack police officers.

There is an endless number of journalists who distort facts to brainwash people into believing blacks are victims of some racial injustice ( they even doctored the 911 tape of Zimmerman calling for help to make him sound racist )

There is no endless injustices against blacks.

I stopped reading after the first paragraph, the whole article is based on something 100% false.

COMMENTS TO WASHINGTON POST:

* I am getting so tired of this racism crap and so are very many white people I know. The reason why antisemitism has ebbed in this country is because we live in one of the most racially and religiously tolerant countries in the world, possibly the most. Go to a kosher deli in Paris and see how that works. It’s not because you are perceived as white!! Enough with the self-flagellation and call it what it is. The rest of the world, particularly the Muslim world, hates you and is willing to die to kill you. The United States welcomes you and your successful fellow Jews with open arms.

* Stop cutting up infant boys’ genitals and sucking on them. Once you have made that huge leap towards sanity maybe nonsense like this article won’t occur to you.

* Behold America, the Jew shows his parasitic nature. But the Jews can’t hide from their past and current crimes. Funny isn’t it how Donald Sterling was white to the world when the press was brutally chastising his racism, but as many of us know, Donald Tokowitz aka Donald Sterling was a racist Jew. The Jews have long used minorities to get laws passed that they could use all the while not caring one bit about the black man. From slavery to the civil rights Jews have had their own agenda; control. Don’t fall for the BS this Jew is writing. The Synagogue of Satan is their holy place.

* “We can be the ones who change business practices, housing codes, policing, correctional facilities, social policies, unequal schools”

Hang on a minute. I thought that the idea that Jews control everything was one of those “anti-Semitic” canards. And yet here it’s admitted as plain as day!

* Most American Jews came from Europe, especially Germany, making them white.

There is nothing shameful about being white, so get over it.

* Quite a long article, even for a rabbi. Let me see if I got the gist.

So we Jews were associating with “the Whites”, and we got it all wrong.
We should oppose “the Whites” (who are racists and oppressors) and instead side up with “the Blacks”, who are victims and generally good guys.
We should do that because we are, after all, “the Jews”, and “the Jews” , too, must behave in a prescribed ( by the rabbi, I suppose) pattern.

And this is the way to fight racist attitudes and to ensure everyone in US is not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Oy, what is wrong here?

* Let’s assume Rabbi Steinlauf knew that a good portion of his congregation, like most of the commenters here, would be offended by his offering up campus SJW drivel on Rosh Hashanah. Why give this sermon then (and probably many others like it)? Why not even acknowledge “white privilege” is a highly contentious idea even amongst liberal Jews, and that there’s room for nuanced, thoughtful disagreement. I think Rabbi Steinlauf’s likely purpose is to drive non-left liberals and moderates out of Adas Israel’s congregation. In turn, this gives him the temple membership that will support his taking Adas Israel much further to the cultural left than it is now. That said, I have no familiarity with Adas Israel itself and would very much like to hear from members of that synagogue.

* My extended family (18 first cousins who have all had many children) are all orthodox jews from eastern europe (I’m the atheistic black sheep), and no matter what the rabbi says, we’re all white, have always been white, and will continue to make white babies.

The drivel in this article is the reason I stopped attending synagogue.

The rabbi, like most leaders of religious congregations, is a sanctimonious, bombastic moron, utterly enamored of every word that comes out out of his mouth, his common sense having left him as the compliments form the older female parishioners piled up about just how wonderful he was.

Their god is the reason people attend your synagogue, rabbi, not your glowing presence. If you dropped off the face of the earth tomorrow, attendance wouldn’t suffer one iota.

Your self-serving effort to once again separate us from mainstream society is misguided, to be kind.

* Tell us, Rabbi:

Did Jews drink from colored water foundations in the South?
Was the Secretary of State for the Confederacy Jewish?
Did Jews fight for the Confederacy?
Did Jews own slaves?
Did Jews own cotton brokerage houses in the South during the Civil War?
What is the history of Lehman Brothers?

* Perhaps he is seeking absolution of the guilt of white “privilege”? Somehow I don’t think the members of other races are going to allow them off that easily. But what is curious is that part of the reason he claims that Jews are not white is because of anti-Semitism. But that is specious. There are numerous ethnic animosities between whites. There are anti-Irish, anti-Scot, anti-English, anti-French, anti-German, anti-Pole, anti-Slav, anti-Italian, anti-Spanish, etc. Every white ethnic group has negative (and positive) stereotypes associated with it and has been on the receiving end of abuse by other whites. The same divisions exists within all racial groupings of ethnicities I would suspect.

* Note that this rabbi’s indiscriminate attack on Whites would be unacceptable and “racist” if directed at ANY other ethnic group. Unfortunately, it has been clear for some time that a vocal segment of Jews, such as a Tim Wise and Noel Ignatiev, are rabidly, virulently anti-White. The very concept of “whiteness” and I suspect “White Privilege” are constructs of Jewish intellectuals. So, Rabbi, please leave the White race, as it’s already clear that you hate us.

* The Black Lives Matter rabble is an obnoxious anti-white hate group that advocates the killing of police officers and encourages attacks on police officers primarily white police officers so your selection of that group as a group to model yourself after is ironic if not just plain dumb. Also you do realize at least I hope you realize and I don’t mean to stereotype groups but there is a pervasive and virulent anti-Semitism that runs in the black community. And while it is your right to shoulder as much white guilt as you feel necessary or to shun your racial identity in order to make yourself feel better or more magnanimous toward different groups you should be aware of the feelings that others groups might have toward you based not on your race but rather on your ——————- religion. Think about it.

* I have to say I’m astonished at how this author missed the salient point of his facts. Assimilation works! For God’s sake shout it from the rooftops! Work hard, learn English, out American the Americans. Raise kids who have to be told they’re different, because they feel nothing but their American identity. And shame on you author, for further propagating the lie of Ferguson. That shooting was found to be totally beyond reproach by the justice department, led by Eric Holder himself. Liar! Shame on you for stoking racial hatred! You cant stand that being Jewish does not make you a victim, you are feeling excluded from the great American pity party. White man! I call you out as the most hated creature on earth! White Man! Suffer your whiteness and your lack of victimhood. Tee hee!

* A rather odd commentary, especially coming from a religious leader. All whiteness is privilege? Maybe he could drive his BMW out to Appalachia some time and check out the pockets of illiteracy and disease about three or four hours’ drive from his nice neighborhood in the D.C. area in West Virginia, western Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

* What a bunch of ridiculous nonsense. He seems to be saying that Jews are supposed to join every bandwagon that certain members of the black community parade. Jews who supported the demonstrators in Ferguson were supporting a lie, not justice. Jews who lock in march step behind false claims of discrimination based on “disparate outcome” are not helping the black community, but only increasing its inability to rise out of the welfare quagmire it finds itself in.

* If the majority of blacks had assimilated, worked and STUDIED like the majority of Jews in the US, there would not be as much of the racism they claim. My wife and mother-in-law were emotionally burned out as teachers because they tried over and over to help black kids in poor neighborhoods to advance their lives with scholarship, only to have their efforts rejected because the kids’ “friends” told them to “stop actin’ white.” Some racism is earned.

* I applaud Rabbi Steinlauf’s comments. However, I find the way that Israel treats African refugees and even worse, Ethiopian Jewish Israeli citizens to be completely at odds with the supposed Jewish tradition “…that motivates us to remember the stranger, for we were strangers in Egypt; that calls on us to lift up the cause of all those who are oppressed.” What to do if the Jewish state is in fact itself the oppressor and where is the condemnation of it?

* You know what’s unique about the American Jewish experience? No other people, ever, has had a host country build its entire foreign policy around keeping a special homeland for them that they, and only they, can have an open door “right of return” to if they wish.

What other people have ever had another country spend billions to to keep a separate country for themselves? If this isn’t “privilege”, I don’t know what is.

The first way one could check their privilege is to agitate for a cutting of such purse strings. The other is to stop arguing for a perpetual opt-out clause that exempts them from responsibility for, well, anything.

* The other thing that is problematic about this article is that it completely ignores the reality that Jews are oppressors in this world, too, both in the United States (as White people) and in the Middle East (as Jewish people and US allies). The situation in Palestine/Israel right now is structurally racist, and those who focus solely on how Jewish people have been oppressed in history should know better. We know that isn’t cool, cuz we’ve been there. So how about we stop doing this to other people now?

* Let’s teach ALL OUR CHILDREN that they are simply AMERICANS. All other identities are secondary. When we abandon E Pluribus Unum we will be lost as a nation, and multicultural idiocy and fractionating identity politics are weakening our foundations. We must make a larger sense of national belonging primary. The rabbi also has it profoundly wrong: immigrant Jews like my father NEVER struggled to white: he ONLY wanted to be an American.

* So Jews were originally people of color, fought hard to become white, and now should renounce their whiteness to fight racism? Do you know how crazy you sound?

* What would happen if African Americans, 13% of the population, didn’t commit over 50% of US homicides? What if almost everybody I’ve known or read about whose been raped, robbed, carjacked, killed or beaten up on a bike trail had been done so by a Jew instead of an African American? What if African Americans had family structures as strong as Jews and worked as hard in school? (I worked in DCPS for 7 years. I’ve seen it.)

It’s not perfect, but there is no more slavery. There is no more Jim Crow. Companies and universities have diversity training and compete hard for all willing and able black applicants. The best boss I ever had was a black guy. Most of my colleagues and clients are African American. They are my bosses and mentors.

But it seems there is a critical mass of African American culture that doesn’t participate in what it takes to be successful. And it stains all, especially in the eyes of white people who don’t have everyday experiences with African Americans. Whether these behaviors of success are good or bad…they are what they are, and you can do it or not. But it’s your move now.

What if I was willing to stipulate that every problem every African American has ever had was because of something white people had done? That doesn’t mean we can fix it, even with the best of intentions. Something has to change on the other side. Aside from trying to treat people fairly and constantly acknowledging my white privilege, what am I supposed to do? White liberals like myself are not going to get very excited for very long about micro-aggressions and how many African Americans are nominated for Emmys. If you lose us, you lose.

* When a Jewish person writes an article that is hateful and bigoted against an entire ethnicity of people, and is called out on it, then his critics are being hateful. I forgot that criticism of political action and speech was protected by de facto hate laws.

* I think the good Rabbi has identified one of the problems of being Jewish. If a religious group spreads out throughout neighboring countries but is exclusionary, insular and closed, never really becoming a part of the countries they inhabit, then they are always the ‘other.’ It drives me crazy when someone says that they are Irish and Jewish. Jewish is not a nationality but is a way to set a small group (tribe?) apart from others. Perhaps it is good that Jews have a homeland (even if stolen from the previous inhabitants) because now there is somewhere where they are not outsiders. This is a sad reality where the need to be different creates responses that can be unpleasant. I am Scottish, English and Atheist. My poor Atheist tribe wanders the planet, searching for a safe place where Atheists can rule and others are second class citizens. Strange.

* Their chutzpah is so astonishing that I don’t even know what to say except let’s judge them by their actions and not their words. In order to move to Israel and get Israeli citizenship, you pretty much need to be Jewish (have at least one grandparent that is Jewish) so let’s work for similar immigration laws in America. E.g., you need at last one grandparent that is North-West European in order to get American citizenship. Let’s deal with illegal migrants the exact same way that Israel does – by building a fence to keep them out and detain the ones that got through in a huge detention center. One Israeli newspaper even reported that they force their Ethiopian Jews to get Depo Provera shots to jeep their birth rate down. We can apply that same method to the – here.

* Perhaps Jews like Rabbi Steinlauf, eager to abandon their “whiteness”, should go further and extend their embrace of migrants and open borders to include Israel, a land that has built powerful walls along its border with Egypt to keep out the many desperate Africans who have tracked so far in search of a better life. And perhaps too, Jews like Rabbi Steinlauf should give up their advocacy of Israel as a “Jewish” State. Israel has no more (or less) of a moral right to be majority “Jewish” than Europe has to be majority “White” or “Christian.” But don’t hold your breath.

* This seems like the worst type of bandwagon politics, in order to avoid taking criticism for privilege and racism at a convenient time.

It’s also viciously racist against people of indigenous European decent, many of whom were stripped of their ethnicity because of anti-ethnic bigotry, and are simply left with being “White”. Millions of these people are destitute.

Also, why just single out Whiteness? Let’s look at wherever bigotry and differences exist. Why aren’t more Blacks given the education and opportunity to become Jewish and benefit from that culture? There are very few Black converts and no Black Jewish congregations in the USA, especially amongst the Orthodox. After all, we have an income inequality problem in this country and the statistics put Jewish income above Whites. It seems like lack of conversion opportunity is having a disparate impact on Blacks. Let the Jewish faith benefit them. Also, what about Jewish privilege in Israel and the legacy of oppression and racism there? The author is casting stones while living in a glass house.

Insofar as being multiracial is concerned, the majority of the Jewish population is closely genetically related. They have a Tay Sachs problem for a reason. No White religions have problems with diseases caused by genetic inbreeding. Few other religions can say that they have racial elements to them, and almost no religions followed by White people with any significant membership. Ethiopian Jews, the largest group of Black Jews, do not follow the Talmud and are discriminated against in Israel. They aren’t well included in the group. There is almost no intermarriage. They hardly exist in the U.S.A.

It seems hateful, opportunistic, and hypocritical to write this article. What difference does it make if ethnicity is based in religion or skin color if both groups are intractably exclusive due to difficulty of group entry? The religion becomes a default racial group anyway.

* How times have changed. My father instilled in his children a love of being Jewish and a love of the United States and, yes, a love white American cultural. (Granted, he was only half Jewish and married a non-Jew.) He studied history and understood quite well how differently Jews were treated in the U.S. compared to almost any other country that we have lived.

You article stinks of contempt for a group that did more for Jews than any group in history. If you think that the rising non-white groups in this country will be so accepting, you are insane.

When my fellow Jews start moving out of white areas to live in majority black and Hispanic neighborhoods, send their kids to majority black and Hispanic schools, look for black and Hispanic doctors and dentists and CPAs instead of a nice Jewish boy (or that smart goy) and truly feel happy when their daughters marry a black or Hispanic, then you can stop identifying as a white Jew and consider yourself just a Jew.

Until then, quit crying about how you have to endure the stigma of “white privilege.” First off, you are white from a genetic standpoint. Second, on a per capita basis (and sometimes on an absolute basis), we have more power and influence in any number of aspects of society than gentiles, so if there’s white privilege, we’ve got it whether we want it or not.

And for the love of God, can my fellow Jews stop bringing up the country club thing. You do realize that almost all of the times that Jews were banned from country clubs, it was be other Jews! It was German Jews keeping out East European Jews.

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Demography Is Destiny

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Elements of Turbulence in the life of David Brooks after a cursory Google:

#1 – His son left the USA and is in the IDF
#2 – Brooks is divorced from his Christian wife who converted to Judaism
#3 – Or maybe not
#4 – Brooks is in the process of converting to Catholicism
#5 – Or maybe not

Mid Life Crises — Ain’t it Wonderful?

* “The Republican Party is led by people who are profoundly uncomfortable with the changing (and inevitable) demographic nature of our nation.”

Note the choice of words there. This is intellectual dishonesty and media manipulation.

Demographic change is not “inevitable.” It’s not like a hurricane or winter storm that no one can stop. The rulers of this country can, in fact, control who enters it. They choose not to.

The fact that Brooks and the Times choose to purposely cloud this issue with Newspeak should set off alarm bells. Anytime the elites claim something under their control is “inevitable” it means there is a reason they’re allowing it to happen but not telling us.

* Brooks ignores the disastrous effects of immigration on African-Americans. David Frum wrote:

Despite three years of supposed economic recovery, black children were as likely to be poor in 2013 as in 2010 — and more likely than at any time since the early 1990s. Almost four out of 10 black children are now growing up in poverty, as against one in nine white children. More than 25 percent of the black poor now live in areas of concentrated poverty, triple the rate for poor white people.

“The uniquely harsh African American economic experience since 2007 has divided black opinion further from that of other elements of the Obama coalition. Only 29 percent of Latinos under age 30 think illegal immigrants take jobs from Americans — but 48 percent of African Americans under 30 think so. No wonder.

“African Americans have been very much bypassed in the recovery, as employers substituted immigrant for native-born labor. As of mid-2015 all of the net new job growth from the previous employment peak in 2007 has gone to foreign-born workers. The black unemployment rate — although declining — in summer 2015 still hovered well above the rate in December 2007. Among younger black people, 16-24, the unemployment rate is a Greek-like 20 percent. Nearly half of black youth aren’t in the workforce at all.

….

Even Bernie Sanders is on board:

“You know what youth unemployment is in the United States of America today? If you’re a white high school graduate, it’s 33 percent, Hispanic 36 percent, African American 51 percent. You think we should open the borders and bring in a lot of low-wage workers, or do you think maybe we should try to get jobs for those kids?”

….

Harvard’s George Borjas found:

The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skilled black men, fell precipitously between 1960 and 2000. At the same time, their incarceration rate rose. This paper examines the relation between immigration and these trends in employment and incarceration. Using data from the 1960–2000 US censuses, we find that a 10% immigration-induced increase in the supply of workers in a particular skill group reduced the black wage of that group by 2.5%, lowered the employment rate by 5.9 percentage points, and increased the incarceration rate by 1.3 percentage points.

….

And while Brooks correctly points out that legal immigrants have a lower incarceration rate than the general population, he conveniently ignores the fact that ILLEGAL immigrants are locked up at a far higher rate, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission:

According to FY 2014 USSC data, of 74,911 sentencing cases, citizens accounted for 43,479 (or 58.0 percent), illegal immigrants accounted for 27,505 (or 36.7 percent), legal immigrants made up 3,017 (or 4.0 percent), and the remainder (about 1 percent) were cases in which the offender was either extradited or had an unknown status.

Broken down by some of the primary offenses, illegal immigrants represented 16.8 percent of drug trafficking cases, 20.0 percent of kidnapping/hostage taking, 74.1 percent of drug possession, 12.3 percent of money laundering, and 12.0 percent of murder convictions.

* “The vitriol toward immigrants, Muslims, and all people other than White America coming from the candidates should frighten all Americans.”

This is just pious leftoid nonsense.

There is vitriol directed towards Latin immigrants because large numbers of them are here illegally, and feel that they are entitled to be here. There are some people who dislike Latins as such but most people are fine with Latins, as long as they speak English. (A bi-lingual and bi-cultural America would be as much a disaster for the US as for any European precedents.)

Hostility towards Muslims is two part: (a) Because they engage in cultural practices that are incompatible with life in the West (honor killings, FGM), and (b) because in virtually every culture they go into, they demonstrate a refusal to assimilate, thus creating alien ghettoes, and second, when they aren’t not assimilating they are terrorizing the dominant culture (a la Charlie Hebdo) for refusing to police itself in accordance with their religious laws.

* If US is indeed all about ‘diversity’ and ‘multi-culti’ stuff, then there is no single Americanism. So, it is wrong for Brooks to talk as if he represents the only American Dream.

It may well be that the Jewish-American Dream is to increase diversity to play divide-and-rule among goyim.

But white-American Dream is to maintain some degree of white dominance because, from its very beginning, America began as an extension of European civilization.

As for Palestinian-Americans, their dream could be the hope that US stop supporting the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Palestinian-American Dream differs from Jewish-American Dream.

From now on, there is no more American Dream. There is only the
Hyphenated-American Dream, and Brooks should know that it’s wrong and arrogant for him to claim that the dream of his ethnic group is THE American Dream. No, it is merely one among many that differ and are in conflict.

* David Brooks (not a social conservative) is busy telling social conservatives what they should believe – just like David Brooks the Jewish, Israeli nationalist is busy telling non-Jewish Americans they should not be nationalists.

* Following the Obergefell ruling, Brooks urged social conservatives to abandon the culture war to focus on serving the vibrantly diverse populations:

“The defining face of social conservatism could be this: Those are the people who go into underprivileged areas and form organizations to help nurture stable families. Those are the people who build community institutions in places where they are sparse. Those are the people who can help us think about how economic joblessness and spiritual poverty reinforce each other.”

If you’re wondering why that isn’t the defining face of neoconservatism, it’s because neoconservatives are busy doing important things.

* Brooks values American nationalism for one reason and one reason alone: it convinces gullible young Americans to enlist in the military and die fighting the enemies of Israel.

* People forget how the US and the West, in general, are indirectly subsidizing the living standards of low GDP countries or of low income people by having simply existed and developing things on their own – medicine, tech etc.

The more ambitious nations, like Japan, S. Korea and China, industrialized rapidly by simply adopting and adapting the technology, modes of organization and knowledge that the West had already run through numerous iterations, absorbing the costs of the initial research, the initial failures and the repeated upgrades. They also find export markets ready made, as well as abundant willing capital if they can ensure low wages or other favorable terms. Of course, there’s nothing simple about it, as HBDers, culturalists and institutionalists know, the world being strewn with failures to catch up or to even take off.

Cuba has its life expectancy partially because it can tap into capitalist advances in dentistry, pharmacology, surgery etc without paying the usual costs or having to absorb some of the sunk costs of R&D.

The best example I can think of are the Amish and other low-tech, low GDP groups that people like to praise for their wholesome simplicity and other qualities. By living in the US, or in the proximity of nations beholden to Mammon:

– They get to live in a place where their security is subsidized by an advanced power, protecting them from invading armies, rape, plunder etc.
– Their property rights are secure.
– If they deign to make their own horseshoes or other implements, the steel they can buy is of much higher quality and lower cost in real terms than 150 years ago.
– If they make overpriced handmade furniture or bric-a-brac, then they are bought because their customers enjoy disposable incomes and their creations are given value by the contrast with the cheap, mass produced stuff that every pleb has.
– Their economic activities invariably rely on continental transport systems or information systems underlying banking, weather forecasts etc.
– Their crops might be specially developed, if not GMO. Let’s remember who started the Green Revolution in Africa that primed the population growth since the 1960s.
– They have access to insurance, medical services, emergency services etc.
– I read an article about an Amish community tolerating a high tech gene sequencing center among them to study and find solutions to the problems posed by inbreeding.

All of those benefits might be reduced by the rich countries de-developing themselves, or they may stagnate. Stagnation might not sound that bad for GDP-fatigued people, but it’s hard philosophically to consciously put a lid on innovation or development (do you do it before or after the Salk vaccine, or some theoretical cure for cancers? What about space?). That saying about tipping over the ladder behind you is also applicable. I kind of want to develop in my own land properly and, for most small nations, that involves piggybacking on foreign markets, tech and capital. If that stagnates, can I edge out the other dude? If I can’t, then what’s left for the economically ambitious if not to change their country of residence and skip 20 years of development that are not going to happen and get the best buck for your bang straight away? We know where that leads. The high-IQ prevalence or the advanced PISA score proportions may differ, but I hardly doubt my Romanian trucker or hair dresser is in some personal way the lesser of an American one, yet the income differences are staggering. This can be put down to the value of the cargo, the profitability of the market, the better infrastructure, the lower equipment wear and tear, the lower transport times on good infrastructure, the amortization of prior costs, the lower capital costs of the firm etc etc but not on IQ or some specialized knowledge of the driver.

Meanwhile, the Africans are sitting on some major resources (that haven’t even been exhausted at the surface the way Europe’s have been) and a huge continent that’s just a killer jungle or a dustbowl to them.

* As is typical of the dewey-eyed* Emma Lazarus genre, the only quantification Brooks bothers to supply in this column comes from an opinion survey (that fraction posing as an arrest statistic at the end is laughable, as everyone here recognizes).

But numbers are of the essence when it comes to immigration, and the question, “How many?” is the proper (and effective) reply to anyone who spouts the tired “nation of immigrants” line as an excuse from argumentation.

“So why don’t we let in a billion immigrants?” is the question to ask Brooks. No “sane” person would agree to that (although people with academic credentials have proposed it), but having established that there might be an upper limit, the discussion turns to “What’s the right number?” and its corollaries, “How do we choose?”, “Whom do we admit?”, and “How do we make sure?”

Maybe it won’t amount to anything in practice, but I feel that the doorway to discussing these questions publicly has been decisively opened. I take Brooks’ column as evidence of the panic that’s set in on open borders side.

* The desire of old stock Americans to minimize immigration of ethnically different individuals reflects the deep instincts, probably going back to Paleolithic days that were discovered by Harvard’s Robert Putnam: diversity creates anomie and the loss of social capital.

Who would want to create such a situation in their own society? One might imagine that enemies of that society might want to create it.

It was America’s high level of social capital that enabled to create a great industrial system and to win two world wars. It was a similar high level of social capital that enabled England to initiate the Industrial Revolution and to create the greatest empire the world is ever seen.

* Your interpretation of the founding of the United States is revisionist hogwash. It was part of the 3rd wave of propaganda from the people who brought you the idea of “civil rights”. Originally, civil rights and equality under the law was sold to a Christian America under the guise of fairness and meritocratic ideals, very Christian indeed. Once majority America capitulated to that first violation of A)freedom of association and B) self interest, the assaults just kept coming. We were ordered to condemn our history, then our own families and grandparents, then our Christian Faith, and finally we have been asked to condemn ourselves. We won’t do it. You say our whiteness is part of a mark against us for supposed injuries of generations past.

Do African-Americans have to apologize for their ancestors’ cannibalism or part in the slave trade (selling)? No. Do Jews have to apologize for their ancestors part in the slave trade (middle men)? No. Do whites have to apologize? Yes, and we have. But there is no forgiveness given. Those original ideas of supposed belief in meritocracy have been shown to be a lie simply to gain power.

The media, the universities, and yes, the Obama Justice Department have been waging a war to frame whites as evil-doers in hundreds of situations. The idea of “white privilege” as some sort of call to action is communism at best, blood libel and genocide at worst. Your type has smeared us as a race, and we are finally ready to give back in kind.

We are done apologizing for things we didn’t do. We are ready to demand apologies from blacks for their asymmetrical warfare waged as violent crimes against us- and poverty is no excuse particularly not for rapes or homicides. We are ready to demand apologies from Jewish-owned media for their part in smearing us over the last fifty years. We are ready to demand apologies from illegal invaders who have trespassed on sovereign ground and forged their way into unearned benefits. And we are ready to tell leftists of all stripes to sit the hell down; their reign of terror is over. This includes the type of leftists that run NRO and the Weekly Standard. We are no longer fooled. We don’t care one bit about the childish names they will call us, anymore.

This is a rightwing movement that is growing exponentially. The comments sections of every online newspaper have become extremely rightwing, so much so that they are removing them in a hasty panic. Every day a new right wing website pops up. Every year the Amren and NPI conferences get bigger and younger. We are winning the war of ideas and we are winning the youth. Our movement is even more advanced in Europe. If you are frightened as a leftist, you should be.

If Trump can be our strong man, so be it. If not, there will be another to come along. Our movement will not die.

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Hey, What Ever Happened to the ‘Existential Threat’ of Iran?

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

JJ Goldberg writes: The recently retired chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, gave an important talk this morning at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, summing up the current state of Israeli security. You can watch the whole thing (it’s in English) here.

I’ll have a fuller analysis of what’s new and what’s not new in his talk after the weekend. For now, though, I’ve transcribed his comments about the Iran nuclear agreement. As you read it, you’ll note that there’s a not-too-subtle dissent from — perhaps even a rebuke of — the approach that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his allies have taken both toward interpreting the Iranian issue and toward managing relations with the American government.

I’ll leave out the speed with which the dreaded threat of Iranian weaponry has disappeared from Israel’s political agenda and been replaced by the supposedly equally deadly threat of teenagers throwing stones. Gotta love it.

Anyhow, here’s Benny Gantz:

I do agree that a better deal could have been reached. I do see the challenge that the theoretical enrichment rights that the Iran might have gained and this is indeed a challenge. But I also see the half-full part of the glass here. I see the achievement of keeping away the Iranians for 10 to 15 years into the future and postponing their capabilities of having a nuclear capability and with the right price.Usually they have said that war is an extension of the political activities. In our world you have political activities and if they do not succeed then you use war. Well, they have had political activities and they have saved a war,which I think is not bad in and of itself.Now, I am not naïve. I understand who we are dealing with. I understand why the Iranians want to possess nuclear capabilities. I understand that we must look into the future and I think this is what we need to suggest.And I would look at the deal as it is. It’s a done deal. Let’s look forward. And in looking forward, I would definitely promote, most importantly, the intel capabilities and the intel cooperation between the entire organizations of the country to make sure to expand, as much as we can, the known areas versus the unknown areas. And if they stay unknown then we know that they are unknown, and you all know this sentence — I cannot repeat it, right?But we must extend our intel capabilities. We must continue to build defensive and offensive capabilities that will be used as deterrents, or as an operational means when and if needed in future times.We must strengthen the others around and do everything in our capacity to prevent the need of a nuclear race. Currently I don’t see the need for one — from our perspective, I don’t know what the others might think — because if you can ensure that Iran doesn’t get it, so why would the Saudis have it? Et cetera, et cetera.And last but not least I would even dare to say that there is a need to reach out to the Iranian people themselves, which have a very large base of westernized aspect. They want to live their lives. They see the Internet just the way you and me see it. And let’s turn it into a kind of a honey-trap if you wish for future times.Now, from what I know, and I think I know, and from what I assess, and I think I have a basis to assess it, I am not worried about Israel’s security situation. We are the strongest country in the world [? Sic]. We know how to take care of ourselves. And this issue is a worldwide issue that inflects the Bab el-Mandeb and all those sea trails. It affects the region. And then it has to do with us. Not the other way around. It’s not an Israeli issue and then a regional issue and then a world challenge. It’s the other way around. It’s a world challenge. Let the world deal with it. It’s a regional challenge. Let’s see how the region deals with it. And we will stay strong as we are.So I refuse to get hysterical on this. And I think we need to look into the future. And I understand that the United States of America has suggested it. And I am sure that the state of Israel will be there. And we should continue to promote our capabilities to face a negative development if it arises down the future.

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JTA: Jewish groups praise immigration reform proposals

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

From JTA Jan. 30, 2013:

Mark Hetfield, interim president and CEO of HIAS, an organization that deals with migration and refugee resettlement, said he “is more encouraged than we have been in years that our leaders will finally create a just system for immigrants and refugees.”
Now is the time to “fix a broken system” that includes “all kinds of artificial, technical barriers that deny asylum to persecuted people,” he said.
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs also welcomed the proposals.
“We are eager to work with both Republicans and Democrats, both Congress and the president, to finally see immigration reform passed,” said chair Larry Gold. “Not only will these proposals strengthen our country, but the bipartisan cooperation behind them could mean the start of a new era.”
The American Jewish Committee also applauded the efforts for immigration reform, calling them encouraging.
“Immigration is a key factor in bolstering America’s economic strength and democratic pluralism,” said Richard Foltin, director of national and legislative affairs for AJC.
The Anti-Defamation League issued a statement saying, “It is clear that both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue have heard the American people calling for leaders to overcome partisan divides and create a common sense solution to fix a broken immigration system.”
Barry Curtiss-Lusher and Abraham Foxman, the ADL’s national chair and national director, said their organization is looking forward to working with Congress and Obama in what they hope will be a debate that “will honor America’s heritage as an inclusive, compassionate nation of immigrants that values the diversity of its people.”
B’nai B’rith issued a statement saying that it “will continue to advocate for a constructive outcome to the legislative process.”
Nancy Kaufman, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, said her organization “is heartened by the newfound energy to pass comprehensive immigration reform after years of inaction. NCJW will continue to work for immigration reform that ends the second-class status of immigrants without papers and ensures that a viable path to citizenship is finally at hand.”
Also weighing in was the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism. Associate director Barbara Weinstein called the proposals “important steps toward resolving the challenges that have plagued our immigration system for far too long.” She noted that Jewish tradition “commands us to welcome the stranger.”

Every Major American Jewish Organization Including The Orthodox Union And Agudath Israel Supports Immigration Amnesty.

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Jews and Immigration

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

Immigration activist Jeffrey Kaye writes for the Jewish Journal:

In a 2007 book chapter, “Were Jews Political Refugees or Economic Migrants?,” UCLA economics professor Leah Platt Boustan provides a painstakingly thorough debunking of the “common belief that the exodus from Russia was a uniquely Jewish event and thus cannot be incorporated into a general model of migration.” Boustan compares migration flows of Russian Jews and of Austro-Hungarians and Italians during the same period, showing that the “timing of Jewish migration, like that of other migrations to the New World, responded to economic conditions.” Boustan doesn’t discount the push of anti-Semitism and political hardship but does make the case that persecution, along with the combination of economic adversity in Russia and promise in the United States, spurred the move to what the predominantly Yiddish-speaking immigrants called die goldene medina, the “golden land.”
That view directly contradicts the perspective of Stephen Steinlight, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) in Washington, D.C., who has emerged as a leading Jewish voice in favor of more restrictionist immigration policies.
“Jews during the Great Wave fled pogroms, oppression and discrimination,” he wrote recently. “There’s no commonality between the Jewish refugees of that era and today’s economic migrants.”
He concluded, “[A] growing majority of American Jews opposes illegal immigration because a confident American identity makes them empathize with fellow Americans first, not immigrants.”
It’s a potent argument, one that essentially calls on assimilated American Jews, blinded by the fog of historical memory, to disregard their own ancestral experiences and draw an artificial line between us and them. Steinlight rightly assumes that identity breeds empathy. If we can somehow disassociate our own experiences from those of more recent border crossers, we can try to convince ourselves that those people are not like us. Empathy does loom large in the Jewish experience, and public-opinion surveys show that Jews tend to be comparatively tolerant of illegal immigrants.
But attitudes may be changing. A 2007 poll by the American Jewish Committee showed that 67 percent of Jews backed some form of legalization program for illegal immigrants. By December 2009, according to a CIS survey, the percentage of Jews supporting a path to legalization was down to 60 percent.
In this regard, the changing Jewish opinion is in line with historic patterns of attitudes toward immigration. Namely, depressed economies are often accompanied by anti-immigrant sentiment and legislation. But Jews would do well to draw a lesson from our own history and resist the temptation to scapegoat and demonize those whose crimes consist mainly of crossing political boundaries in search of better lives. Immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe were viewed not only as “hereditary defectives,” they were considered dirty, depraved, disease-ridden, crime-prone, a burden on society and incapable of assimilation.

A solid majority of Americans have been against more immigration for over 120 years but who cares about them right?

The 19th Century critiques of immigrants were pretty accurate and along with this accurate criticism and proper application of stigma, many immigrants to America learned to behave in accord with American norms.

Ron Guhname writes: WASPs rule! I wrote in a recent post that I was getting the sense that Americans with Protestant European backgrounds were the best behaved. So I decided to sum all my prior post numbers that dealt with ethnicity and moral behavior to assess this idea systematically. I followed the simple strategy of assigning a rank for each behavior for each of the 8 ethnic groups with sufficiently large sample sizes. Jews were often ignored in previous posts since one must turn to the religion rather than the ethnicity variable to get estimates, but I wanted to include them, so I calculated numbers and then ranks for them.

I included all variables that I have posted on–here’s a list of them: okay to cheat on taxes; drinks too much; ethnocentric; dirty house; frequents prostitutes; promiscuous men over 30; feel that infidelity is not wrong; gay; lesbian; husbands and wives who cheat; fathers divorcing mom; women arrested; and promiscuity for men and women and under. I realized that I had not posted on drug abuse so I added that to the rest. I ranked group so high numbers indicate more bad behavior, then I simply summed the 16 rankings for each ethnic group. Here are the totals:

Bad Behavior Index

Blacks 106
Mexicans 85
American Indians 85
Italians 70
Irish 67
Jews 64
Germans 56
English/Welsh 47

My hunch was correct. This pattern coincides with that feeling that goes way back among nativists that the moral quality of the country was slipping with the mass immigration from Catholic, southern and eastern European countries, and more recently in concern over immigration from Mexico.

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Immigration Reform: A Jewish Imperative

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz writes:

We must remember as a nation the timeless rabbinic teaching, “Do not judge your fellow until you stand in his place” (Pirke Avot 2:4). We must not attack undocumented workers with the harmful, hateful rhetoric that many use today as they are stuck in a very challenging predicament that few can related to. The rabbis even promoted immigration: “He who has not made good in one place and fails to move and try his luck in some other place has only himself to complain about” (Bava Metzia 75b). One cannot remain stuck in an underprivileged region if it is a clear dead end for oneself and one’s family. In the Torah, there is a positive commandment to love the foreigner in our midst (Deuteronomy 10:18), and a negative commandment against oppressing or perverting justice for them in any way (Exodus 22:20, Deuteronomy 24:17). The rabbis elaborated on this prohibition: “You shall not wrong or oppress the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not wrong with words, and you shall not oppress financially” (Mekhilta d’Rabbi Yishmael Mishpatim). We not only owe them basic human rights; we also have specific religious obligations to go above and beyond to protect them from harm. We should be grateful that America is a desired home for those fleeing dire straits and be proud of what we have to offer.
Significant numbers of Jews immigrated (and continue to immigrate) to the United States without documentation. We also needed a safe refuge like many others fleeing poverty and persecution today. Our responsibility to the vulnerable immigrant (and heroic journeyer) requires that we honor the image of G-d in all people. Perhaps Emmanuel Levinas, the French Talmudist and Jewish philosopher, said it best: “The respect for the stranger and the sanctification of the name of the Eternal are strangely equivalent” (Nine Talmudic Readings: “Toward the Other,” p. 27).
Now is the time to hear the eternal calls of our religious traditions and of human conscience to ensure the dignity of all humans by providing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants currently in the United States. We are long overdue but sure to prevail, since our commitment is steadfast and justice is on our side.

What kind of person introduces himself as “Rabbi Dr”?

Strangely, the rabbi does not advocate that Israel commit suicide by allowing in millions of alien immigrants.

Rabbis Abraham Cooper and Yitzhok Adlerstein write for The Jerusalem Post: “There is no wiggle-room concerning the consequences of a one-state solution. Combined with a right of return for millions of Palestinians living for decades in Muslim countries, Jews would quickly become a minority in their own land. The lone Jewish state would cease to exist, its inhabitants left as secure as the Yazidis or Christians in Iraq.”

It’s a shame that these Orthodox rabbis don’t similarly support America’s core white population from demographic overturn. I guess nationalism and borders are only for Jews.

The documentary Hollywoodism concludes with a rant by Douglas Rushkoff, author of Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism: “The thing that makes Judaism dangerous to everybody, to every race, to every nation, to every idea, is that we smash things that aren’t true. We don’t believe in the boundaries of nation states, we don’t believe in these ideas of individual gods that protect individual people, these are all artificial constructions and Judaism really teaches us how to see that. In a sense, our detractors have us right in that we are a corrosive force, we’re breaking down the false gods of all nations and all people because they’re not real and that’s very upsetting to people.”

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JJ: Channeling Purim’s Esther, Jewish women fast for immigration reform

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

JewishJournal.com March 13, 2014:

While many devout Jews across the United States and elsewhere observed the pre-Purim tradition of fasting on Thursday, March 13, more than 200 Jewish women and men are going without food today for a different cause: immigration reform.
This year, members and supporters of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) have recast the Fast of Esther, a minor fast day named for the Purim story’s heroine, as part of a month-long campaign to urge the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation this year.
The “Fast for Families,” a nationwide campaign that began on March 8 and will culminate with an event in Washington, D.C., on April 9, is being led by a coalition of faith groups, labor unions and other organizations pushing for immigration reform legislation. While the broader campaign mentions Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez as models for their current action — all three men fasted to draw attention to their causes – NCJW is looking to Esther for inspiration.
“We hope to draw on Queen Esther’s courage as we fast to call attention to the importance of just, humane, and comprehensive immigration reform that is sensitive to the needs of women, children, and families,” NCJW CEO Nancy K. Kaufman said in a statement.
For the estimated 11 million immigrants believed to be living in the U.S. without legal status, 2013 saw the Senate pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill that included a path to citizenship. But any hope for immigration reform in 2014 would require that bill to be taken up by the House, which has not yet happened.

Brian Williams from Compton High School comments: “Are you kidding me? Fasting for illegal aliens? If these jews are so concerned then why doesnt Israel want these illegal aliens…oh, I forgot, jewish Israel forces BLACK immigrant women into forced STERILIZATION…why arent these jewish women fasting for immigrant rights in Israel?”

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You Belong In Israel

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

“No one belongs in Israel more than you.” Why haven’t the jew-hating goyim seized upon this Zionist marketing slogan?

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Vatican Has Stricted Immigration Policy In The World

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments at the Chateau:

* Go there and see for yourself. I have, it’s an amazing place. The Catholic church carried western culture for centuries. Without it, some of the greatest works of art in existence would not have been patronized.

That said, fuck the Socialist Pope. Let him welcome in the brown hordes and see what they do to the place. They would burn it down in a heartbeat.

* I wonder when the last vestigial culture christer struggling with the inbuilt contradictions of his natural nationalist tendencies with the open borders christinsanity finally understands that since christianity denies race and blood as “myths” (see Mit Brennende Sorge of 1937) it can never coexist with what nationalists are seeking to build: a society fixated on race. Time to dump this levantine cult, people. Today’s multicult christery is in its purest form and it’s not going to roll back as most christians today are already non-white.

* If Martin Luther were alive today to hear this Pope speak, one of his 95 Theses would have looked like this.

He who gives to the poor of his own free will from his own coffers and opens his own home to the needy does a better deed than the man surrounded by vast wealth and residing in his own private walled city who pontificates in front of a bunch of lying, murdering sociopathic heathen living off the stolen wealth of others about the virtue of state coercion and aggression against the innocent while extorting the innocent to become political cuckolds.

* Walking past a big TV in my office lobby I saw a children’s (boys?) choir in New York, connected with the papal visit. For the three seconds I was exposed to the broadcast, they sounded very nice. But the singers were a melange of races and that always jars me. Is there anyone who honestly likes the aesthetic of multiple races or ethnic looks is an assembly that is meant to represent one nation?

See various eastern European choirs or musical groups, or western European a few decades back. The heart grows with joy seeing unadulterated members of a nation represent something larger than the sum of its parts when they preform well. Or see any non-mixed national sports team or military formation.

Schools today mail out ads for class photos. Invariably, the main sample photo shows kids of various colors and now veiled girls too. This phobia of purity of association is the ugliness of our time. And there is a method behind this ugly imagery, and it was articulated by John Lennon in the most inhuman song ever written, slightly paraphrasing here: “Imagine there’s no country. Nothing to live or die for. Just graze, cattle, above you only sky.”

There is such a thing as a brotherhood of man. It happens when two men of different races meet as equals, each speaking from a position of his own strength. Men like, in fact, meeting and getting to know others. But this only works when every man in question has an identity and a home of his own.

The mixing of races and nations is an effort to dehumanize all men.

* The mixing of races and nations is an affront to the Most High, who created true diversity for His pleasure, and not some mixed multitude that invariably reverts to the lowest common denominator.

* Europe should follow the Vatican’s lead, I’d say. Not that I don’t empathize w the plight of refugees but to have a “come one, come all” policy towards them is insanity. Look at Canada. Strict immigration policies. You have to have a skill they need, a job lines up already that no Canadian can fill, and money in the bank before they will even think about it. Not that Canada is perfect but I say they have the right idea there. Nobody accuses Canada of being haters???

[CH: Canada’s immigration policy is certainly leagues better than the US’s, but ultimately an immigration policy that doesn’t have at its heart the goal of preserving the racial balance of the nation for present citizens and their posterity is a policy with a thermal exhaust port that can and will be exploited by nation- and race-hating leftoids.]

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White Flight In Sweden

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

REPORT: So-called “white flight” is a common phenomenon in Sweden, according to a new doctoral thesis from Linnaeus University.

When a residential area reaches a certain degree of ethnic diversity, Swedes tend to flee.

In the dissertation the economist Emma Neuman examines differences between groups on the Swedish housing and employment. The results show that native-born tend to move away from, or avoid moving into residential areas when it reaches a certain trigger point in the share of non-EU foreign-born.

Swedes migratory behavior therefore seems to be an important factor behind the rise of ethnic segregation in Sweden.

According to research, segregation in childhood can have an impact on economic outcomes in adulthood. The children of native-born who have grown up in areas with a high proportion of foreign-born tend to have poorer labor market outcomes and are less likely to begin college or university education.

– Yes, we found a “tipping point” of about 3-4 percent, says Emma Neuman, who is a National Economic researcher at Linnaeus University. When immigrants become so many in a residential area, the native Swedes begin to move from there.

A study conducted between 1990-2007 shows the same, and what many already knew.

– The impact was actually stronger in the 1990s, and then the “tipping point” was slightly lower, ie Swedish-born were more likely to move as soon as only a few immigrants moved in, says Emma Neuman. It might be interpreted to mean that many, after all, has become a little more tolerant, but the overall trend seems difficult to curb.

This does not apply to just any immigrants – immigrants from Europe gives no moving effect, but it is the overseas migrants who have the neighborhood to start moving. Cultures collide quite simply, there’s whole blocks that can be transformed in just a few years, a situation few politicians and journalists need to experience.

Where the Swedish middle class mothers moves away from multiculturalism – while they say they experience this as enrichment, shows the complexity.

– Many speak nicely of ethnic diversity as an enriching factor, but when choosing a school for their children or where to move to, the question becomes very concrete, and then one often choose some form of Swedishness, says Maja Lily, who is a sociologist at the University of Örebro.

The dissertation says nothing about the violence, threats, rapes, robberies, etc. which is the main reason why Swedes flee of course.

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