I would like to rediscuss the idea that expanding already high levels of immigration & transnational interdependence is *obviously* *always* a good thing, and that that the *only* reasons not to do so are xenophobia, racism, stupidity and selfishness. Now would be a fine time.
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8. I've never understood the immigration thing, truly, I don't. I just don't get it. Immigrants are good. I can't do justice to the econ case better than
@bryan_caplan already did. I just...I'm confused. You're obviously neither stupid nor xenophobic. You're Jewish. WHY. -
9. My best model of your position is some kind of Straussian-cynical thing, like "Chinese grad students are obviously not going to be personally powerful in US society, because they're foreign, so this diminishes the power of scientists as a class, relative to other classes."
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