Had dinner with 2 smart, liberal friends last night who didn't understand why I objected so vehemently to @tomfriedman recent immigration column. My main beef, his opinion flies in the face of social science research. When he ignores hard data, he perpetuates stereotypes 1/
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The point is that immigration has brought demographic changes that makes in-group whites uncomfortable and whites are reacting to, sometimes in destructive/resentful/racist ways, and that's on the whites, not the immigrants. 10/
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The most frustrating thing about this piece is that there is that Friedman expresses just enough compassion for immigrants and he does understand some dimensions of the issue that he may sound persuasive to pro-immigrant people. For ex: he understands the flow has changed 11/
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from single men from Mexico coming her to work to families from Central American claiming asylum. But there is so much that he gets wrong in this piece b/c he didn't familiarize himself with social science lit, that he's perpetuating misinformation. 12/
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I'm just an obscure academic at a "non-elite" institution. I don't have the followers, reach, platform that he has. His small bit of knowledge and a lot of opinion on immigration is doing great damage to the national discourse on this already explosive topic. Please stop. FIN/
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Not necessarily because our society actually is becoming "more fair." The key issue is not what factually is occurring. Perception is decisive.
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Exactly. And fwiw, I hate titles like the one used in the vox piece. I'm pretty careful to say that we can see white identity as distinct from racial prejudice (dislike for outgroups), but that it still helps maintain a system of racism / racial inequality.
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