tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post321030107138186081..comments2024-02-27T15:47:47.923-05:00Comments on Principled Perspectives: The ‘Alt-Right’: The New Left’s Chickens Homecomingprincipled perspectiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06502754865268315342noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post-43849823184435223432016-12-05T10:11:54.992-05:002016-12-05T10:11:54.992-05:00“Why don't you answer that question.”
Maybe ...“Why don't you answer that question.”<br /><br /><br />Maybe I haven’t been clear enough. <br /><br /><br />Open immigration, better understood as freedom of migration, does not mean open borders or anything goes. While all human beings possess the same rights, and every government should respect that, a government’s primary job is to protect the security and rights of its own country's citizens. Each country's policies should reflect both principles. Every country has to control its borders. Second, open immigration does not and should not have to mean a so-called "automatic path to citizenship." Citizenship is a different matter. <br /><br /><br />We can debate the conditions and procedures that regulate America’s migration policies. My view is that racial group averages are meaningless and should not be considered in assessing which individuals may come in to work or live. National origin and ability to be self-supporting are two standards I would insist on, among others. Beyond that, there should be no numerical limitations to migration between nations at peace with one another any more than there should be limitations between states.principled perspectiveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502754865268315342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post-76087176589132526502016-12-04T18:41:22.820-05:002016-12-04T18:41:22.820-05:00“. . . this is a unique country with a unique lang...“. . . this is a unique country with a unique language and culture.”<br /><br />My reference here it to Iceland.<br /><br />Do you support Iceland having open immigration even if it becomes swamped by Somalis? What about Israel?<br /><br />Why don't you answer that question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post-20690512729020748852016-12-04T18:15:53.276-05:002016-12-04T18:15:53.276-05:00Steve;
“. . . this is a unique country with a uni...Steve;<br /><br />“. . . this is a unique country with a unique language and culture.”<br /><br /><br />True. Our culture’s uniqueness is in the fact that it is individualist-based, not race—i.e., collectivist—-based. This is something most Americans of European descent seemingly have lost sight of. Remember that Europeans also gave us Plato and Hegel and Marx. It was the white race that brought us communism and Nazism and fascism.<br /><br /><br />The battle is within us, not between us and them. If 330,000,000 Americans re-embrace individualism and the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, immigration won’t harm us. If not, slamming the door shut to immigration won’t save us.<br /><br />Thanks.principled perspectiveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502754865268315342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post-87102956752267338802016-12-04T11:15:47.229-05:002016-12-04T11:15:47.229-05:00I don't believe the alt right holds the group ...I don't believe the alt right holds the group or the collective as its highest standard. Rather it acknowledges that groups differ and there is almost certainly a biological component. So a diverse society is likely to be not as successful and prosperous as a homogeneous society. There is a fair amount of evidence for this. And just look around. Mexico is a mixed race society (MesoAmerican, Spanish, and Mestizo). With 120 million people it has produced all of one Nobel prize winner in science. The least diverse Latin American country (Argentina) is the most prosperous.<br /><br />No one, not even open immigration Objectivists, supports an immigration policy that would turn Israel into an Arab state. The results of that would be obvious. Why should people become a minority in their own countries? I'm not Icelandic, but this is a unique country with a unique language and culture. With a population of 330,000 under a regime of open immigration it would cease to exist.<br /><br />If it's not collectivist to want Israel to remain Israel, Iceland to remain Iceland, why is it wrong to want the USA to remain a European country? We Europeans have only given the world Aristotle, Aquinas, Newton, Leibniz, Shakesepare, Euler, Mendel, etc. etc. Our contributions dwarf all other races combined.<br /><br />People like to be around those of their own kind. <br /><br />Steve JacksonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post-51971891553267985912016-11-30T14:18:17.602-05:002016-11-30T14:18:17.602-05:00All the decent people who suffer the bigotry of bo...All the decent people who suffer the bigotry of both left and right, of which racism is maybe the most notable form, must gain total control of law and government, and deny all of it to the bigots. The bigots and any of their 'inputs', their IDEAS, must be bared at the gates of law and government. Outside law and government, they can, by right, speak and write their trash, but the cops can't let them do anything about it within law and government. That state of affairs is a legitimate goal of all the decent people.Mike Kevittnoreply@blogger.com