“the feasibility of the American project has historically been based on industriousness, honesty, marriage and religiosity.” Of course Brooks fails to mention that over the past 50 years his colleagues at the NYT have been leading the fight to destroy these virtues.
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Borderers (Scotch-Irish) not even Americans 1.0. Colonies would not allow them to settle, except the incredibly charitable Quakers. A couple years pass and even tolerant Quakers kick them out.
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They end up in Appalachias bc it was marginal territory full of hostile Indians. So by criticizing Appalachians Brooks is arguing for even stricter immigration controls. (Source (from memory) Albion's Seed, great book if you haven't read it.)
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Don’t hurt him Steve
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Brooks taking a stand for elite America, as usual. He apparently thinks insulting white working class - and African-American workers too, though he won’t state that, is the way for elites to keep winning immigration policy.
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Yeah, this is probably a better choice, for this week's column, than a movie review of Black Panther.
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"You’d react negatively, too, if confronted with people who are better versions of what you wish you were yourself" There's a certain amount of truth to his statement, as by all measurements African immigrants (and their offspring) are better versions of native born blacks.
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even if they are "better", a people has a fundamental right to not be replaced by foreigners.
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Regarding the usual claim that immigrant crime rates are lower than native crime rates as a rebuttal to Trump's white bigotry, are those native rates disaggregated by race? Because if not, it seems like a scam argument.
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As in, how does the "white" crime rate measure next to the "American" crime rate?
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Brooks is surprisingly pro-immigration for a guy who, not so long ago, essentially called Haiti a
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David Brooks is nobody's Republican or conservative. Mealy mouth party
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