From the linked article (by a Jew) on Jews and mass immigration:

But back to the “diversity” issue. What do Jews really mean when we tout the supposed greatness of ever-greater ethnic diversity?

What it really means is, “We’re still resentful and fearful of even the faintest whiff of nationalism emanating from whites because we have post-traumatic Holocaust syndrome.”

What we also really mean is, “We think increased diversity will make Jews safer.”
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If we Jews want to stop Muslim immigration, we are going to have to cut a deal with those who want to change immigration levels generally. We have to seek and set policy according to realpolitik, not irrational fears fronted by fanciful, universalistic ideals we ourselves helped construct in large part to effectively advocate for our particularist, ethnocentric concerns.

I’ve been pointing to the huge Jewish influence in the media and academia on this topic, due to their nearly universal stance against any measure to stem mass illegal immigration much less deport illegals, their large if not necessarily majority presence in such institutions, and the quickness with which they’ll used “xenophobic” or “racist” to attack the restrictionist sentiment even against illegals, which a large majority of the nation has.

In this and many areas Jews lead the left in this country, especially when they are solidly united about the subject and care passionately about it. In those cases they have virtual de facto veto power in how the media slants stories. Almost.

Posted by: doug1 on August 2, 2009 2:48 PM

I've said this before: Jews have a 2,000-year history of being unwanted foreigners everywhere they lived. Jewish fear of nativism is deeply rooted and largely unconscious. American Jews also have the nation's strongest case of "Ellis Island nostalgia". For them, coming to America was a supremely liberating transition, and the vast majority embraced America. (Was there ever a more patriotic American than Irving Berlin?)

Jews are and have been ubiquitous in culture, scholarship, and mass media - so this Jewish sensibility has soaked in everywhere.

This is not the dominant influence on immigration debate. But it is an immensely powerful one, and one that is mostly "below the radar". It's not a Sinister Plot; it just happened.

Posted by: Rich Rostrom on August 3, 2009 2:13 AM

I wonder why no one seems to be using unemployment figures as an argument to deport illegals? The other side was using the employment argument (we need workers) during the "good times."

Mr. President, if you won't deport illegals or even prevent the entrance of more illegals into this country now, what point would the unemployment figures have to reach before you would put the interests of the American people ahead of foreigners?

Why should the good guys let a crisis go to waste?
sN

Posted by: sN on August 3, 2009 5:32 AM

Yes about economics never being able to predict the future. Economics is better, as Dillow points out, teasing apart what went on in past events, i.e. doing history. But as Popper (and many others) have demonstrated, IMO conclusively, you cannot get law-like generalizations in history that have predictive power, since we humans can change our behaviour precisely because we are aware of the "predictions" made (think of Chesterton's game of Cheat the Prophet, except not as funny).

Science has gotten its rep for power because it focuses on those parts of the universe that go about their business as if we're not there. You can't do that with people. The materialist postulate that we can understand the universe best by looking at it as if it's dead and unconscious just can't be applied to people. At least not in any sane philosophy of which I'm aware.

Posted by: PatrickH on August 3, 2009 9:34 AM

Granting independence to Puerto Rico would be greatly complicated by the fact that its residents have full U.S. citizenship. The Constitution prohibits revocation of citizenship without very good reason, so an independent Puerto Rico would have millions of dual citizens with full eligibility for U.S. government benefits - clearly, a complicated and perhaps unworkable situation.

Posted by: Peter on August 3, 2009 10:46 AM

Richard Cohen, who is Jewish, also came out against hate crime laws today in the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/03/AR2009080302222.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Posted by: Tony S on August 4, 2009 10:51 PM






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