Broke: Lowering immigration is racist because immigrants are predominantly non-white, and therefore any opposition to immigration necessarily stems from white supremacist racism.
Woke: Not lowering immigration is racist, because bringing in better unskilled or low-skilled employees disproportionately hurts those in our society who are the worst off in terms of health, education, family structure, and contact with the criminal justice system, and that is very much skewed, racially, in our country. Support for mass immigration is just white people showing off how tolerant they are while pushing off the costs on other groups.
immigrants don’t count as people worth helping, apparently
If you’re going to make the tradeoff, admit you’re making the tradeoff. Don’t lie and call everyone else racist.
Rationalist Tumblr does reasonably well at that. The Democratic Party and its pundits and associated left wing political operatives do not.
Likewise, don’t heavily restrict the construction of new housing units while calling for mass immigration and becoming viscerally upset at any attempt to slow immigration and insulting the people that want to slow immigration, then complain about high housing prices.
Which is, once again, something Rationalist Tumblr does much better than the Democratic Party.
And quite frankly, I see no reason to believe the latter will improve.
Maybe you do, but I suspect that instead, SJ will eat you alive.
Related:
My position on immigration is basically a function of the national rent/income ratio.
Because either we’re a growing nation that invites in immigrants, or we’re not, but the one thing we’d better damn well not be is a nation that invites in another couple hundred million people this century and then forces everybody to live with roommates with hellish commutes down choked, collapsing, under-provisioned infrastructure (like the Bay Area presently does).
This is what I mean, in small part.
The change, the increase in housing stock for an increase in population, is part of the Happy Liberal Land that Rattumb readers must deliver.
I believe in Nationalism, but how willing am I to fight for it? How willing am I to invent new forms of it that may spread in the 21st century? The nation-state is not dead yet. It isn’t even doomed. The idea that it is, is a Liberal fantasy.
I am willing to fight for it to the degree that you fail.
(*not you, poipoipoi)