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Date: March 22, 2021 05:59PM
There was a book written at the turn of the twentieth century called The Passing of the Great Race. I believe it influenced Hitler’s Mein Kamf. You need to know about this book only because it is obviously complete bullshit. It is written by a white AngloSaxxon man to demagogue immigration. The immigrants he is demagoguing are Catholic Irish and Italian immigrants.
You know, today everyone from Europe is just called “white,” but back then white Anglo Saxon Protestants (WASPs) were afraid it meant the doom of their way of life and the end of the purity of their ethnicity and thus an end to the vague whatever-is-was-exactly-nobody-knew exceptionalism that made the WASP culture great which they thought is what made America great. Sound familiar?
The author divided the Caucasian demographic into three additional “races” and tried to make the case that mixing with Irish people and Italian people would spell the end of what made his own “race,” the Nordics he called it, great. This is obviously pseudoscience and nonsense, and literally no one cares anymore, which makes the book nonthreatening and highly educational. I am a descendent of Anglo-saxxon, Italian, and Celtic immigrants. According to this bastard (who Hitler had kind words for), I am what’s wrong with America. So it’s funny that as a politically-conservative Mormon, I used to fall for the argument that America’s impending white-minority status was something to worry about. But it’s already happened before, and nothing bad happened. We all mixed together and several generations later, no one alive thought the same way. In hindsight, the arguments being trotted out back then are fucking embarrassing, but it’s a lot of the same shit being said today, only about Latino Catholics.
Latinos are hard-working, God-fearing Christian people. Studies have shown that crime generally has not gone up at all just because there are more and more of them immigrating here and having big families (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-06/what-s-the-real-link-between-crime-and-immigration). They are exactly the kind of people you would think the Republican Party would make a conscious effort to bring into the conservative coalition, assuming the conservatives are as nonracist as they keep saying. If they ever figured out that Latinos are normal people (just from a culture descended from colonial Spain as opposed to colonial England) who just want to work and make a living and be happy like everybody else who lives here, and also if the GOP ever changed their stances away from heavy-handed “America First” immigration policy, made more an effort to be color blind, and took a more worker-friendly policy approach while also talking up Christian values, then the Democrats would be doomed. A full third of Latino voters voted red in 2016 mainly because of Trump’s pro-life promises.
That would suck to lose our reproductive rights, but also if the GOP became the kind of party that suddenly appealed to older Latinos, that wouldn’t be so bad either, because it would mean a significant shift away from white supremacism had taken place. I could work with that. There is a secular trend among millennials and Gen Z among all demographics, so despite the increasing diversity of America, the number of Catholics has more or less stayed the same. The future of this nation as it stands now (just looking at trends) is an ethnically diverse and culturally secular one, and I’m excited. We just need the reactionary whites who are scared of brown people to not fuck it up.
Here’s another gem: the number of people who self-identify as “white” on the census has actually gone up, not down (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/upshot/more-hispanics-declaring-themselves-white.html). If it weren’t for the damned census question distinguishing Hispanics from non-Hispanics, no one would even be able to tell what was happening by looking at raw census data. So, crime has not gone up and the number of people identifying as white has not really gone down AND the number of Catholics has remained steady. Religion is in decline only because your kids think it sucks snd they don’t wanna believe it anymore; it has nothing to do with any grand anti-American Clinton conspiracy to import Marxist agents from Mexico. And if you think that’s a credible and serious thought to be worried about, go fuck yourself.
We’re going to mix together. It’s already happening. In several generations, no one is going to care. Nothing will be fundamentally different from the way things are now or the way things have been before. We’ll probably think of new ways to be racist when we start getting large immigration waves from China or wherever is next. Global Warming is happening, and there’s going be waves of tens of millions of people migrating away from the coasts as sea levels rise over the next century. If conservatives hate the diversity they have now, oh boy oh boy, you guys done fucked yourselves over with your ignorant climate change denialism.
But there’s actually nothing to be worried about. We shouldn’t have a leaky border — I’m not defending “open border” policies — but I am saying that the people who came in that way are actually not bad folks and maybe we should make them legal and bring them in, seeing as how they’ve already integrated and shit. More Latinos would vote conservatively at least on social issues stuff if they weren’t worried about Trump deporting sus abuelos y sus tios. La familia es más importante para los latinos de lo que muchos gringos parecen sentir por sus propias familias.
There’s also something I’ve never understood about regressive Mormon politics on immigration and anti-Latino sentiments in Utah. Latinos are Lamanites, aren’t they? Isn’t the promise of the Book of Mormon that when the nonHispanic white Gentiles reject God, a remanent of the Lamanites will rise and tear in pieces and none shall deliver and that the remaining nonHispanic white believers would ally themselves with this remnant to establish Zion? The Book of Mormon says that in multiple places, especially in third Nephi. Mormons must not believe their own book, because if they did it seems like they would have pounced on the opportunity to proselytize among these new Americans and not offend them by generally holding such antagonizing views of them. Instead we’ve got these white supremecist DezNat dumbasses and all of these America First Trumpists ruining the church’s big chance to bolster its falling numbers in the country where it was born and thus shore itself up.
The only reason I was ever scared of Latino immigrants is because I listened to propaganda that told me that the evil Democrats were going to use them to overthrow my religious liberties. But, I’m of the opinion today that my religion sucked and also no one is plotting to do that. It was yet another delusion I was under. I never thought Latinos were migrating into my country and moving next door to me to hurt me. I just had some funny ideas about Democrats’ intentions.
About that, Clinton did talk about “open borders” in a leaked speech, but it was meant in context for the ears of international bankers and commercial interests (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/8/hillary-clinton-dreams-open-borders-leaked-speech-/). She wasn’t plotting to destroy the white race through “mass immigration”; she was only plotting to enable the kind of free trade that just as an externality hollowed out factory towns in the rust belt — that’s all. Lol. I mean, there are rational evidence-based reasons to dislike the woman, but conspiracy theories about Latino caravans at our border was just never one of them.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 03/22/2021 06:29PM by Cold-Dodger.