On The Big Story, John Gibson urged viewers to "[d]o your duty. Make more babies," because he had found out, from a recently released report, that nearly half of all children under the age of five in the United States are minorities. Gibson added: "You know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority of the population is Hispanic." Gibson later repeated: "To put it bluntly, we need more babies."I'm sure Paul Hue and SixStringSlinger will explain to me why this is not a racist/white supremacist remark.
For the record, Slinger is doing his part by popping out Caucasoid/Euro puppies at a steady pace, but Paul's bi-racial brats are impeding progress for the white race.
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Nadir: I agree with you on this one. In Europe, there's a problem with the muslim immigrants in that a large fraction of them opposes democracy. I believe, though, that Mexicans would feel the same way as Gibson if Americans started flowing past their borders in similar numbers, and I would also find those thoughts racist. A pretty strong fraction of native black Americans, for example, oppose this immigration for similar reasons.
Amoung the only respectable reasons for opposing this immigration is if the people coming in want to use their new democratic powers to end democracy, as is the case in Europe. But Mexicans appear to be embracing democracy, and they appear as a whole to be harder-working and more productive than native Americans. Any concern over changes in relative fractions according to "race" I reject.
Do not count me amoung the native white and black Americans who oppose these immigrants, and who have any concern about this group overtaking blacks or whites in numbers. Count me amoung the many Americans who believe that these new non-white immigrants are showing the rest of us an example of how to behave productively.
Slinger is making a BIG mistake. The world benefits by people making babies with people assigned to "other" racial groups. Slingy, just think how much harder your kids'll have to work than mine to get into UM! Of course, if my kids go missing, the press won't cover it. If Nadir and his wife make a baby, they will have each missed out on the "white privilidge" that a white spouse could have confered to their children. That's what my kids get from me!
I do not care if in 25 years the majority population of the US is "hispanic" (whatever that means). If the majority population works hard and makes sensible political choices, its efforts will support the rest of us. These cries of concern seem the same that native Americans have been making for a few centuries, with each new wave of immigration.
Mexico's loss is the USA's gain. I am convinced that a majority of the new Mexicans will taste freedom and a government that is much more sensible than that of Mexico, and will probably appreciate it more, and support its improvement... towards even more capitalism and individual liberties.
I am convinced that a free country cannot successfully illegalize "normal behavior". Humans accross the globe immigrating to the US is not only "normal behavior", but it also constitutes one of the greatest factors contributing to freedmon and prosperity in the US over the past two centuries. Many waves of massive immigration have occured, and they've each spurred cries amoung native Americans that the country could not absorb them all, and that the immigrants included vast numbers of criminals and persons merely seeking US govt handout that are lucrative compared to what they could expect in their own native land. These nativist cries have also included concerns that the new people brought with them strange languages and customs that would transform the average US culture.
Although these claims have largely proven accurate, other factors overwhelm these facts: the newcomers have always proven to provide on average a massive net benefit to their new country, they have always learned english, and their children have always learned english, and they have become fervent Americans and adopted the principles of democracy and personal liberty. In fact, these new comers have always eventually provided fresh commitment to these core values.
Each wave has always expanded the very meaning of "American", and overcome nativist notions of a limited "racial" composition of "Americans". As one of many examples, the original Irish who came to the US prior to the US Revolution, and their descendants, started to call themselves "Scotts Irish", to distinguish themselves from those low-life, lazy, criminally inclined "famine Irish" who poured in during the early 1800s . Nativists insisted that these "famine Irish" would overwhelm the American culture, what with their irresponsibly high birth rates and strange customs. The nativists were correct, of course, but the net result was a new and improved self-perception of "American Culture." Today's nativists embrace the aspects of "American Culture" which derive from those "famine Irish", and wish to protect it from today's Mexicans, who are really no more disparaged (and for the same reasons!) than yester-year's "famine Irish" (and Italians, and Greeks, and Slavs, and Jews, etc.).
Is it even conceivable that industrious humans in Mexico -- facing retarded economic policies, such as nationalized petro resources, curruption far worse than that in the US, laws banning "foriegn ownership", etc. -- will fail to cross a border where their prospects are so good that the primary source of income in Mexico is expats in the US sending their surplus dollars home?
Here's what one Mexican along the border told a reporter: "I have no work in my country so if the soldiers turn me back, I will try again." And, I assert, eventually he will succeed, no matter how many guards oppose him. Yes, Mexico's govt is making horrible choices, and yes its anti-immigrant policies against Central Americans would make US "Minute Men" proud and expose Mexico's leaders as bald-faced hypocrites. But which country wins when these Mexicans come over? I say: the US. Europe's economies were terrible when its residents flooded accross the ocean to the US. Ireland was a basketcase for the past 200 years or so, due to its retarded economic policies. During those years, the US benefitted by fleeing Irishmen, while that nation suffered from the loss of these industrious people. Now the Irish residents have intelletually grown up, rejecting socialism, curruption, and protectionism. The result: the Irish no longer immigrate there, and instead Frenchmen, British, and residents of other nations wallowing in socialist policies now immigrate to Ireland, which is prospering as never before.
We native Americans should cheer on these Mexicans. We are so propserous that we have a low birthrate, which is normal of prosperous people. So who will support our tax structure in the coming decade? Not our children, but rather the children of Mexicans. History assures us that these people will become real Americans, and even that their children and grandchildren will marry ours (to the extent that we have any!), and that they will provide the tax revenue that we will sustain us during our own retirements... which, by the way, will indeed occur within yet another upgrade of the "American Culture", which will include new common sirnames, pop-phrases, foods and celebrations originating in yet another previously strange culture, and a mixture of people looks different than it did when we were children.
This is always has it has been in the US, and we have no reason to think that it will ever change, can ever change, or even should ever change. I agree that *some* of these immigrants are behaving in some disagreeable and illogical ways (demanding citizenship after breaking a law to get here, claiming that the US "stole" a portion of their own native country, etc.). However, winning on those points I think is not worth the effort and misses larger and more important issues.
Thus my response to John Gibson: "White folks, don't make more babies. Babies are expensive pains in the ass. Let Mexicans do perform this thankless work for you. Let 'em move here, let 'em make babies here, and let them do the work of pushing the US forward. To the extent that you have any babies of your own, encourage them to marry into these industrious families. If nothing else, your grandchildren won't have to work as hard to get accepted into Harvard and Duke."
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