Assimilate This

All talk, both parties. Nothing but. They have no intention of attempting to close our borders, none whatsoever. It’s just talk, nothing more. We just got through a Presidential campaign and one of the most important topics, if not the most important topic for a campaign for the Presidency was totally ignored by both candidates.

They talk about alienating millions of White voters?? Who did these White voters vote for? Either one of two sides of the same coin.

A Hispanic writer from New York City writing about “Hate speech leads to Hate Crimes?? The vast majority of hate crimes are perpetrated by Blacks and Hispanics on Whites. Everything seems to be in reverse here. Black is White and White is Black. Up is down and down is up. We are truly through the ‘looking glass’ here.

Dolores Prida,Recoquista Queen, if you want speech that you consider to be hate speech banned,then start a campaign to pass a constitutional amendment repealing the First Amendmant.I would like to see how far you get with that.

It interesting that leftist consider any dissent from an entirely pro-immigration stance is met with raging accusations of racism. Kind of fascist don’t you think?

“…argue that pandering to pro-amnesty Latino voters is not the way to go forward.”

I agree. It isn’t the way to go forward.

The Republican Party has been hijacked by the notion of the Cuban-American. When Reagan got tough with Castro, there was a surge in Cuban votes in Florida. It is primarily this model that the Republicans have used as their argument to go after the Hispanic vote.

But this is one small group on one issue. As I understand it, the children of Cubans haven’t supported Republicans and support for Republicans in general by Cubans has fallen below 50% and continues to drop. So much for an Hispanic strategy.

Promising, or worse, delivery amnesty would only cause a temporary rise in Hispanic votes for Republics. In the long run, their children will be brainwashed by the same ‘Republicans are racist’ rhetoric. It’s a short term gain for a long term disaster.

What turns me off and others to supporting Republicans is the way they pander to Hispanics. If Hispanics want to support Republican, they should do so by supporting Republican ideals.

Democrats/Republicans; there is no difference other than the spelling. Both are Hell-bent on the destruction of this country. Neither party cares about white people or what they think. The only way to save our country is start a party along the lines of the British National Party. A strong nationalist party is the only answer and hope to combat the two criminal parties in power now. Without it, hope is lost. Democrats and republicans alike would throw their own families into the flames of Hell to stay in power. There is no pride or integrity in those two parties. They are both criminal organizations. Amerika, without divine intervention of some sort, is dead. We must build a strong nationalist party NOW, or lose everything.

“Whatever gains, if any, pandering to Hispanics gives is greatly outweighed by loss of the White Vote, which is more important.”

Oh, how I wish the Republicans would heed this advice - just once. Then at least White America will have the chance to make a responsible choice.

“To their ears, the words “immigrant” and “Latino” are usually followed or preceded by adjectives such as “criminal,” “illegal,” “drug smuggler” or even “potential terrorist,” as well as accusations of refusing to learn English or assimilate.”

Sort of like cigarettes being associated with bronchitis, COPD, and lung cancer? Maybe Phillip Morris should sue Google for hate speech, since not everyone who enjoys the occasional cigarette becomes ill or dies young. My Great-Aunt is 90 and she still smokes - and she sounds terrific for a women her age. Are the studies done on the harmful effects of illegal immigration any less reliable than those done on smoking?

“Diversity can be good in moderation—if what’s brought in is desirable. Most Americans don’t mind a little ethnic food, some Asian math whizzes or a few mariachi dancers—as long as these trends do not overwhelm the dominant culture.”

How can anyone apart from Hispanics and Liberal nutjobs be genuinely outraged by this? I’m not even a conservative, and I agree with this. This statement is about as moderate and mainstream as you can find. And somehow this is “hate speech” that nobody may say in public without fear of tarnishing their reputation or worse? Something is wrong here.

“Hate speech should have no place in a nation of immigrants that pays a lot of lip service to its racial and cultural diversity.”

The familiar irony: “diversity” demands censorship and intellectual conformity. The US also pays lip service to “democracy;” aren’t citizens of a democracy supposed to express their political views and vote in accord with them, even if mestizos don’t like their views and votes?

“Hate speech leads to hate crimes. No argument about that.”

Really? Then why can’t these imbecile outfits point to a single real “hate crime” to make their case?

Note that not one assertion of the Epstein report is even challenged here. We’re merely told that it’s wrong, for mostly unspecified reasons, to oppose the current third-world invasion.

The larger pool of white voters they’re after get, in sizable numbers, their world view from conservative talk radio and Internet publications, where hate-mongering thrives, unchecked and unchallenged.

THIS IS LIBERAL CODE. A normal person reads this and fills in the blanks with the incorrect assumption that the author wants liberals to debate/denounce “hate-mongers.” No, what the code means is that men in black robes must use force of government to “check” and “challenge” dissent by outlawing it.

How do I know? Because liberals do everything they possibly can to avoid debate and discussion with “hate-mongers.” They like to tell themselves they’re open-minded, but that’s just a cozy lie. It’s just as believable as anything chanted by a crowd in North Korea.

I wish liberals would come swarming all over us for debate and discussion. It’d be wonderful; I can’t get them to even start a conversation without them reaching for their favorite tool, the ban/delete button. We’d send half of them home “hate-mongers,” and leave the other half hiding under their beds.

“Unchecked and unchallenged”. Pfah! It is to laugh. I’m begging you guys, please come and check/challenge us. Get ready to lose. You’re intellectual lightweights and nothing more than finger food.

A press release listing their topics of discussion, includes this: “Whatever gains, if any, pandering to Hispanics gives is greatly outweighed by loss of the White Vote, which is more important.”

Well, seeing as the “base voters” for the Republican Party are (were) whites…

Driving immigrants out and sealing the border are the best arguments to win future elections, according to the report “Immigration and the 2008 Republican Defeat,” also discussed at the Washington gathering, issued by the group American Cause and authored by Marcus Epstein.

Well, that was the

The larger pool of white voters they’re after get, in sizable numbers, their world view from conservative talk radio and Internet publications, where hate-mongering thrives, unchecked and unchallenged.

Yes:
Can’t let us nasty “racists” give other whites views that conflict with your own - here comes the “Fairness Doctrine”!

To their ears, the words “immigrant” and “Latino” are usually followed or preceded by adjectives such as “criminal,” “illegal,” “drug smuggler” or even “potential terrorist,” as well as accusations of refusing to learn English or assimilate.

Well, where I’m from we’d call that statement sticking your head in the sand:
It must be British/French/German/Polish immigrants to the United States clamouring for “recognition of Spanish” as a language, am I right?

Immigration reform advocates, particularly Latino activists, are falsely characterized as advocating “open borders” and “blanket amnesty.”

These comments constitute “hate speech,” as defined in a preliminary report on a pilot study conducted by UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center.

Expect the definition of what constitutes “hate speech” to expand to virtually any criticism of persons that aren’t white, by a white person.
But yes, I always go to the “Chicano Studies Research Center” to find out about “hate speech” by “anti-immigration activists” - no conflict of interest there.

Hate speech leads to hate crimes. No argument about that.

I’m sure Crystal Magnum agrees too.

Hate speech should have no place in a nation of immigrants that pays a lot of lip service to its racial and cultural diversity.

This comes up a lot, despite the fact that - until the ’60s’, and the “1965 Immigration Act” - immigration to America was almost-entirely comprised of white Europeans, and in the ’20s’ was almost-entirely comprised of Northern Europeans at that.

Neither should other kinds of speech that, though perhaps not be categorized as “hate speech,” certainly qualify as “ignorant speech.”

Well, if anyone disagrees with my statement about the expansion of what a “hate crime” is defined as…

That was some “fair and balanced” journalism there, Ms. Prida (though I like the other story on VDare where a journalist for the New York Times attempted to get a VDare writer fired for disagreeing with her better).

I get it. If you say something that offends even an idiot, you have committed “hate speech.” Clear now. What is that about freedom of spech in the U.S.?

So we have another name of the enemy: Dolores Prida. She can try to twist factual observations into “hate speech” if she wants, but thank God she’s not in power to enforce the punishments.

As for her remake that “immigration reform issue is again the topic du jour”: no, it’s the topic du siecle.

“There’s no one American “dominant” culture.”

Hence the nation will eventually fall or split up, unless dominance is reasserted.

“The larger pool of white voters they’re after get, in sizable numbers, their world view from conservative talk radio and Internet publications, where hate-mongering thrives, unchecked and unchallenged.”——So Ms. Prida, am I to assume that you yearn for the “bad ‘ol days” when between radio, TV, and print media most voters (of all persuasions) only had practical daily access to 10 or 12 news/opinion outlets that were controlled by a small cabal of men behind the curtains? It sounds like this is more about you and your colleagues getting angry over having to breath comet dust as your moribund fixed asset intensive oligopoly self destructs.

Pardon me, but didn’t the New York Times already have this story? I suppose Carlos Slim bought a share of the Daily News as well.

Peejay in Frisco:

I think I know what you’re saying. I think we all know the author of this article in the NYDN knows that there are no such things as “hate speech” laws, but s/he would like you to think they are, to grease the skids for there really to be such laws.

The popular media do it all the time — I wish I had a dime for everyone who thought that you have to register your guns, simply because so many TV crime dramas put on like you do. There is not one jurisdiction in America that has formal registration requirement. But the libs want registration, as a prelude to confiscation, which they also want. So it’s just fine and dandy if every TV show promulgates the notion that there is gun registration. That way, when lib politician proposes it where there was none before, most people won’t flinch.

“Mr. Epstein, assimilate this: There’s no one American “dominant” culture.”

Yes, there is. EVERY country has a dominant culture, a nation can’t survive without one, for without one, you don’t have a unified people,culture or country but just different balkanized tribes living on the same soil. The bottom line is the USA belongs to the American citizen, it is our home just as Mexico belongs to the Mexican citizen and Mexico is their home. In my home, I have the right to refuse anyone to enter for whatever reason. Same goes for the USA. Most American people don’t want mass immigration, legal or illegal, and being that this is OUR home, we have the right to refuse immigration for any reason. Mexicans or other Latin American countries do not allow mass immigration and don’t want it and neither do we.

The tired ploy of racism and hate mongering is just used to silence legitamate debate. If Whites are hate mongers because they don’t want mass immigration, than mexicans and others must also be hate mongers and racist because mexico etc. has very strict anti-immgration policies. Mexico allows very little legal immigration and tolerates no illegal immigration.

This person is right about one thing, the term “open borders” is not correct. What leftists, hispanic rabble rousers and the Mexican government want is a border that is only open one way and that is into America. The Mexican government will continue to enforce it’s immigration laws. As for the term “hate speech”, this is just ridiculous. Hispanic rabble rousers want to tag anything that encourages the US to enforce it’s immigration laws as “hate speech”.

“After practically vanishing from the presidential campaign in its waning days, the immigration reform issue is again the topic du jour among anti-immigration fire-breathers.”

Prida must think we are stupid; it was deliberately decided NOT to ask the Presidential candidates this question in the several debates, even though national polling CLEARLY put it as a hot button issue.

These comments constitute “hate speech”
According to whom? According to the “Chicano Studies Research Center”.
Well, if they say it is, then it must be so.

Based on this and other reports, the National Hispanic Media Coalition has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission, asking it to examine the extent, nature and effects of hate speech, the role of the media and possible options to counterbalance its negative impact.
That’s right. Silence those hate speakers. To heck with the Bill of Rights. It’s old fashioned and served its purpose. In the Brave New World of Diversity we don’t need it.

Neither should other kinds of speech that, though perhaps not be categorized as “hate speech,” certainly qualify as “ignorant speech.”
Oh! So even ignorant speech is not to be allowed. That could take in a lot! I think her newspaper article is ignorant. Ban it!

Anybody for amnesty right now with a plummeting economy is a fool, and if amnesty indeed is passed, look for the country to go bankrupt positively, absolutely.

“The larger pool of white voters they’re after get, in sizable numbers, their world view from conservative talk radio and Internet publications, where hate-mongering thrives, unchecked and unchallenged.”

These Marxists don’t get it. We don’t get our world view from conservative talk radio and Internet publications. We get our world view from observation and experience. We flock to conservative talk radio and Internet publications because we seek and enjoy the company of like-minded people.

Of course there is a dominant culture—has been for over two hundred years. Who is kidding who here Ms.Prida? In fact, to even say such a thing, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, is scandalous and dishonest in the extreme.

“There’s no one American “dominant” culture.”

Oh??? Who says?
You say? Well, thank you for telling us.

When they say anti-immigration is racist, it’s just an admission that there must be a racial component to immigration itself and that immigration itself must be along racial lines, or in fact racist.

We had a faculty inservice today and one of the topics was “Gang awareness” presented by our local police force.
I was already “aware” but the presentation was a wake up call for a majority of our faculty who have no clue. There was video of Crips and Bloods with emphasis on the number of chapters and subdivisions across the country along with MS13 ( one of the most violent groups around who engage in the beheading of potential witnesses), Gangsta Disciples, Latin Kings, Sureños, Norteños and a host of other street gangs including some Asian ones. There was frightening surveillance camera footage of the shooting of two police officers by an Hispanic Marine in California who had enlisted in the Corps in order to get the free military training. Images from Iraq and Afghanistan showing gang grafitti on walls and military vehicles attested to the alarming number of gang members who are in our armed forces including the Navy and USAF.
The entire presentation lasted a little more than an hour, ninety percent of which was taken up by an endless parade of Blacks and Hispanics. There was also footage depicting the number of “celebrities” like Snoop Dog, Ice Cube, Shoog Night and a host of others. There were professional and college athletes many of whom openly displayed gang tats and flags while wearing their uniforms. The faculty was shocked to learn the number of gangs operating in our Township and all over New Jersey including beautiful, Victorian Cape May. There were also pictures of students in our elementary schools displaying gang signs. Of course there was the obligatory mention of Skinheads and Neo- Nazis operating in and around the Atlantic City area but that whole segment amounted to less than five minutes. I think that most people got their education today as to what constitutes the greatest threat to our future and at one point the police officers stated that “They aren’t afraid of us.”
I couldn’t help but wonder about the years and resources spent crushing La Cosa Nostra who, in comparison to these mutants, were a “gentleman’s club”.
It was very sobering to the majority of the faculty especially when the police acknowledged that they were at a serious disadvantage both in manpower and in weaponry.

Anyone else notice that the way Prida talks about white Americans, about republicans, and about conservatives exactly fits her loose definition of hate speech? I mean, if associating something negative, say crime, with Latinos is hate speech, then what, exactly, is it when you say conservative whites are the cause of violent crimes? (paragraphs 6-9). At this point everything she accuses whites and especially conservatives of, is, in fact, what virtually every minority/liberal/leftist group is guilty of with reference to the white populace of this country (and anybody who disagrees with them).

How timely this all is. The Hate Crime Bill is about to
come before Congress very soon-probably as soon as they pass the
bill to ruin the economy. Mr Epstein and his friends are going
to make very sure that there is no dominant American Culturre-
except their own totalitarian one.

I am just really curious if crime statistics are incorrect and there is a LOT of white on Latino crime. I am also unsure if 30 million white Americans are looking to Mexico for free educations, healtcare, food, housing and Affirmative Action while sneaking across the border?

Just saw it on Numbers: The bailout package will
offer no protection to American Workers. The new jobs
will be completely available to illegal workers. Pelosi
and Company made a point of it. These people not only
hate us, but do so to the point of hurting themselves.
Do they prefer ideology to reality? Do they want to rule
this Country or Destroy it? Do they even know the dif-
ference?

“Mexicans or other Latin American countries do not allow mass immigration and don’t want it, and neither do we.”
Posted by KC

That’s right. And it’s the height of hypocrisy for Mexicans to be demanding entry into the USA, when at the same time they have very strict laws virtually prohibiting immigration into Mexico.

In other words, they want our door to be wide open while their dor is closed and locked shut.

KC wrote

“Mr. Epstein, assimilate this: There’s no one American “dominant” culture.”

Yes, there is. EVERY country has a dominant culture, a nation can’t survive without one, for without one, you don’t have a unified people,culture or country but just different balkanized tribes living on the same soil.
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The Globalists want to destroy the dominant culture of every country. In Turkey, they are trying to undermine the secular, nationalist Turkish Republic, and replace it with an Islamist, non-nationalist (globalist), Kurdish or other minority dominated, Balkanized country.

We’ve already seen how Iraq has been Balkanized under the US forces, who are the de facto shocktroops of the Globalists.

Globalism is against nationalism of any kind and for one world, non-nationalist, “we are all one in the Ummah/Body of Christ” type Borg-like administration. That’s why they love Islam so much, it’s anti-nationalist. (well it’s pro-Arab nationalist, but that’s conveniently overlooked)

“where hate-mongering thrives; unchecked and unchallenged” should be changed to “where the Mexican invasion thrives; unchecked and unchallenged”!

Ms. Dolores Prida is just another open-border, pro-illegal alien invasion mouth piece trying to destroy our right to freedom of speech!

As always… The truth is “hate” to those who hate the truth.

Anyone advocating an immigration policy that over time will reduce Native Born White Americans to an ever dwindling racial minority is guilty of hate speech.

Deloes Prida, tell us what you think of this :Hispanics because they breed at an incredibly high rate within the borders of America-a nation founded by Europeans and with a Native Born White majority- contribute significantly to the population explosion in the US at time when thousands of animal and plant species are endangered. The obvious conclusion is that high fertility Hispanic immigrants pose a very significant threat to America’s wildlife and biodiversity in general.

Do you like this Delores Prida? Maybe you like Mario Obledo’s quote:”The last gasp of White America.” For some reason, I don’t think Mario Obledo will ever have his right to free speech crimnalized.

It is interesting to see Marcus Epstein characterized as a white supremacist by the controlled media. No attempt is made to counter or even intelligently reply to his arguments. Character assassination seems the only technique left to our bankrupt elites.

Here’s a bit of heresy for all thinkers…

We, that is America, DOES NOT NEED any more immigrants! Because there simply are not that many available jobs. Proof of which are those “hiring points” found on certain street corners and parking lots in every city and town with even a smathering of illegal immigrants.

Most illegal immigrants are simply not interested in learning OUR language, adapting to OUR culture. Why? Because they simply see America to be used… for their benefit. Their loyalty is and always will be with Mexico.

Most immigrants, thanks to the all-pervasive crime culture, the “anything goes” mentality pervading the Mexican population… see nothing wrong with pulling off the occasional theft, burglary or car break-in. Kind of like, “If no one gets hurt, what’ts the big deal about a little stealing, right?” Nor do Mexicans have any qualms about rape, even child molestation. Witness those all-too-numerous stories of Mexican rapists, Mexican pedophiles in our local news here in Houston. (Unless those foul perps are White men careful to masquerade as Mexicans and adopt Mexican names. But then why so often the tag line on CRIMESTOPPER segments… “Believed to have fled back to Mexico?”

Maybe La Raza and its clones would also like to DEMAND that no perps who are of Hispanic background… be described or shown in connection with a crime? I can recall a Mexican spokeman interviewed in Calif. by NPR Radio some years back. The gentleman was ranting and railing at the media for “spotlighting all those Mexican criminals.” It never occurred to him, the media would not spotlight those Mexican criminals if they were not indeed Mexicans AND criminals. His attitude throughout the interview seemed to say: “Sure, we Mexicans commit a lot of crimes. But why do you have to tell the world about it?”

I don’t know why they keep calling it immigration in past centuries when millions of people moved from one country to the other and refused to assimilate it was called colonization.

Most of North American history is one of colonization rather than immigration. If we had been immigrants we would have adopted the culture of the natives. People didn’t immigrate to the American west they colonized the territory and pretty much drove out the original inhabitants much like what’s happening today. This time it’s white Europeans that are being replaced.

Immigration is nothing more these days than colonization by deception. If you had an english speaking colony in China they would know the difference.

“Of course there is a dominant culture—has been for over two hundred years. Who is kidding who here Ms.Prida? In fact, to even say such a thing, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, is scandalous and dishonest in the extreme.”
Posted by Bobby
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It’s not only scandalous and dishonest, it’s highly insulting to her host population. She’s insolent and pretty damn brazen.

If a guest comes into my home and arrogantly informs me that I am no longer in charge there and she will henceforth do as she pleases, then she has just exhausted her welcome. It’s time to hand her her bags and show her the door.

If she won’t go willingly, then call the cops and have her THROWN out!

I’d be curious to know just what sort of person is Ms.Prida. What is her nationality? And what is her race (if it’s definable)?

Thank you, Bobby.

“When they say anti-immigration is racist, it’s just an admission that there must be a racial component to immigration itself and that immigration itself must be along racial lines, or in fact racist. “
Posted by Anonymous
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Wars of aggression can be waged in many ways. They are not always out in the open. In the struggle for power and territory, there are many strategies.

The accusation of “racism” is merely an effective ploy for disarming their victim — which is YOU! It’s an ultimatum that you must give up and submit. You must cease your resistance and allow then to do anything they want. You must back down and let them invade your territory. It’s just their strategy for shutting you up and silencing all opposition to their take-over.

“Immigration reform advocates, particularly Latino activists, are falsely characterized as advocating “open borders” and “blanket amnesty.” These comments constitute “hate speech,” as defined in a preliminary report on a pilot study conducted by UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center.”

Here we have free political opinions spuriously characterized as hate speech….

“…the National Hispanic Media Coalition has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission, asking it to examine the extent, nature and effects of [this kind of] hate speech, the role of the media and possible options to counterbalance its negative impact.”

…And then that conclusion used as justification to punish those opinions using the power of government.

Ms. Prida, your idea is second-hand, it was first invented by Josef Goebbels.

“Hate speech should have no place in a nation of immigrants that pays a lot of lip service to its racial and cultural diversity.”

So the Left, especially the far left pushes the dialogue of diversity and intergration for 40 years, using every guilt trip trick and historical revisioning ploy in the universe and then demands that we must adhere to its “lip service.”

It’s no secret the New York Times wants open borders and amnesty because they want to destroy this conservative white country. If they can get in enough Mexicans to vote democratic then they can get their liberal agenda passed. In other words they want to neutralize the white middle class. It’s all about power.

I clicked on the link and it’s interesting that this is not considered opinion by the publication.

The UCLA Chicano Center thinks criticizing illegal aliens is hate speech? What a surprise! I can’t imagine how a California far left elitist institution’s “Chicano” center would come up with an idea like this. I’m sure they are equally outraged when people criticize whites, and I’m sure the professors from this institution praise white people and America in their classes.

Finally, if America has no dominant culture how come every one of the Founders was white and up until the 1950’s 90% of Americans were white?

As a foreigner, I would say the article is characterized by obsessive multiculturalism and egalitarianism. I wouldn’t be surprised if Pravda did publish something similar to this in the days of the USSR. It’s a pity this is the state of the mainstream media today — it has become just a tool for the multicultural establishment to indoctrinate masses.

On the other hand, I have to give the author some credit for not labeling Epstein a “White Supremacist”, as New York Times did recently. It was totally laughable since Epstein is of Korean/Jewish descent. (I think the article was posted on this site too?)

“There’s no one American “dominant” culture.”

….according to her, according the Federalist:
one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion,attached to the same principles of government very similar in their manners and customs.”

“Hate speech should have no place in a nation of immigrants that pays a lot of lip service to its racial and cultural diversity.”
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So the Left, using every guilt trick and historical revisioning ploy in the universe, pushes the dialogue of diversity and integration for 40 years … and then demands that we must adhere to its “lip service.” [!!!]
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Quite true! Good point. Whose lip service?

I have never adhered to this “lip service”. Nor, I think, have most others here on Amren. So whose lips did all that propaganda come from anyway? Not ours!

They spew it for 40 years, and then claim we’re hypocritical for not observing it. We never did.

“There’s no one American “dominant” culture.”

…according to her.
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Yes, it’s so … but only according to her.
Sometimes it’s necessary to distinguish between statements of fact and statements that are mere wishful thinking.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Pravda did publish something similar to this in the days of the USSR.
It’s a pity this is the state of the mainstream media today — it has become just a tool for the multicultural establishment to indoctrinate masses.
European

It’s no secret the New York Times wants open borders and amnesty because they want to destroy this conservative white country.
Sandstorm
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It’s amazing to see how the major players in the MSM have come around to embrace this point of view, which now seems to have become the official Establishment Point of View. The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall street Journal…. all unanimously concur on this matter.

I can remember when, 30 years ago (maybe even 20), this point of view was what you would come across in small, radical, left-wing publications and outright Communist newspapers, the sort you might find being distributed on campuses — but NOT in the major press. Now, it is! Suddenly, it’s everywhere. It’s now regarded as the only acceptable point of view. And if you don’t agree with it, you’re an out-of-touch, far-right, racist wacko. You deserve nothing but contempt and need to be silenced.

What has happened? Is it because those old-time campus hippies have grown up and are now in charge?

Whatever happened, it appears that the inmates have taken over the asylum and are now running it.

“Diversity can be good in moderation—if what’s brought in is desirable. Most Americans don’t mind a little ethnic food, some Asian math whizzes or a few mariachi dancers—as long as these trends do not overwhelm the dominant culture.”

I must say, this is how I feel. I can’t relate to a lot of the posters here because I am a native Californian. I came of age in a California that was 75% White and 25% non-White. True, my city was 90% White, but I was perfectly aware of the makeup of my state. I had friends, best friends and girlfriends who were Mexican-American, and so did most of my friends.

The Hispanics around me were assimilated and you could hardly tell them from the Whites. Same with the Filipinos, Chinese, Japanese, East Indians, etc. There weren’t that many of them, and what few were around, were well-behaved. So I am comfortable in a California that is 25% non-White. To me, that’s a normal society. Further, in California, the non-Whites are part of the neighborhood, or even part of the family in the case of the Mexicans.

The real issue here is one of numbers. We have been overwhelmed here and what was once a little spice in the stew, well, someone dumped the salt shaker in the casserole. This California looks nothing like the state I grew up in. It looks more like the United Nations. The assimilated Hispanics and Asians of my youth have given way to entire neighborhoods and cities taken over by unassimilated recent immigrants, with few to no signs in English. It’s mind-boggling, disturbing and terrifying on a gut level.

It has nothing to do with race per se - it’s numbers and assimilation. We don’t mind having Mexicans, Filipinos, Japanese and Chinese in our state. They are almost among the founding stock of this state. But no one ever asked us to vote on whether we wanted to turn our state into a foreign country.