And yes, I don’t think cousins should marry, since that’s relevant to all of this apparently.
So you would support a law banning (let’s say new) cousin marriage, even if it would massively disproportionately effect only one ethnic group, who are predominantly non-white immigrants?
Because that would be a cultural change brought about by immigration, one that has non-trivial bad effects, one that has been stubbornly persisting, the kind you lot are always insisting isn’t real, and banning it would not be respecting cultural diversity and would mostly be dunking on one particular culture.
I would propose a series of bets with you, but I’m fairly confident that’s against some kind of American anti-gambling law.
Solid on dropping the rest of the argument to focus on this tangent you are framing in such a way so as to reach a conclusion you’ve already arrived at that has nothing to do with the original topic of conversation to claim an easy victory without having to grapple with any claims being made
Well, you didn’t fare particularly well against that pie chart posted by another user, but here’s the thing:
I have more than one issue that I care about. Not having Islamic Terrorism would be great, but you lot seem obsessed with importing Muslims and ignoring the effects thereof. I’m obviously not going to win you over on it, including on the difference in kinds of terrorism, even though there is the rather glaring flaw that without 9/11, Bush isn’t able to wage the Iraq War, which is literally the opposite of decreasing US involvement in the Middle East. (And do people really, honestly believe that blowing up a few near-empty buildings or disrupting the power grid or something along those lines would have allowed for the GWB Iraq War?)
However, just because we have to deal with some side effects of your policies doesn’t mean we have to deal with all of them. One side effect is increasing rates of multi-generational cousin marriage, which we aren’t supposed to talk about, and its bad effects that are worse than isolated single instances of cousin marriage.
So if I get you and others that aren’t right-wingers to agree that banning cousin marriage would be good, maybe that slightly increases the support for banning it, which helps not only monetarily but probably also with extremism, and I still come out having some small net gain on the conversation.