Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Trying to Understand Tucker Carlson in This Clip on Immigration



The below is a very peculiar Tucker Carlson clip.

He appears to not understand how the facts he states relate to his commentary. Notice he says that people who left Hazelton, Pennsylvania do not recognize the city anymore because of the changed demographics. But, damn, if the people hadn't left, the demographics wouldn't have changed!

The people leaving are an important part of the changed demographics. Does he want to stop these people from leaving? Or does he want the houses to stay empty like a desert ghost town? The fact is that the whites who left are probably better income earners than the Hispanics moving in and the whites just moved to where they can earn the larger incomes.

This is basic urban economics 101. Shifts occur all the time in regions relative to incomes. This happens with or without immigrants.

Then Carlson goes on to say that "our leaders" live in areas where demographics haven't changed. Isn't he just pointing out here that if people want to live among their own that this can certainly happen? So what is the problem?

If you don't mind living in a mixed area you can and if you want to live amongst your own you can.

Carlson seems in the below clip to want to enforce some kind of totalitarianism that brings everything back to the 1960s, which by the way, is a period when there was no cable television and Carlson wouldn't have his current show to spout commentary that fails to appreciate change and the economics that explains it.

-Robert Wenzel 

18 comments:

  1. Right, we really need more 'duh-versity'.

    https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/ap_news/politics/democratic-republican-voter-bases-are-more-different-than-ever-study/article_6c34e7a9-f6a1-539f-96ea-1ad11a64d6b5.html

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  2. --- Notice he says that people who left Hazelton, Pennsylvania do not recognize the city anymore because of the changed demographics. ---

    His argument rests on the assumption that if the country wouldn't allow people of a different ethnic background come and fill vacuums, all those cities abandoned by whites would forever remain unchanged and pristine, like Brigadoon. Or perhaps he really wants to bring back Feudalism, where serfs were chained to the land.

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  3. Maybe he's just having a bad day. I know *I* am! :)
    I hope somebody copies him with your commentary.

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  4. What kind of a nation have we become that we can’t even stop immigrants from moving near places where we used to live?

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  5. Build the wall... around DC and with a moat filled with alligators. Keep those people away from the rest of us.

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  6. The number of 3rd world immigrants over the past 2 generations roughly equals the number of abortions Americans had in the same time period. Tucker is right to worry about demographics but he's blaming the wrong people. The immigrants are just filling the gap left by the children Americans failed to produce.

    Go to a park in a white neighborhood and you will find old ladies walking dogs. Go to a park in a Mexican neighborhood and you will find kids playing soccer. Lots of kids.

    White Americans fear ofimmigrants is just the dead's hatred of the living.

    The question is why did so many Americans fail to reproduce, what with their magic culture and all?

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    1. Taxpaying americans simply don't have enough left after taxes and mandatory expenses to pay for the ever increasing expense of having children. Some it legally required some of it socially expected. Immigrants don't have to worry about it.

      Even a 1980s middle class white suburban childhood is practically illegal now. And that was stifling compared to what came before. But nobody is going to bother the immigrants with such things. That's why their children can play soccer unsupervised in the park.

      But wait there's more. If you find a spot to have that 1960s white middle class experience the same house (now 50+ years old) that a factory worker bought new now requires two professional incomes to buy thanks to cheap credit and too many people bidding for it. If you're in CA its even worse.

      There's even more with regards to cultural expectations.

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    2. You misspelled "white people would rather spend their time watching sports and playing video games than cultivating the useful marketable skills required to give their children the same standard of living they enjoyed."

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    3. But Jimmy, don't you know race, culture, and IQ don't matter? Magic dirt will make these immigrants realize that property rights, limited government, and NAP are the way to go. Maybe RW could hand out some of his books for those children to take home to their parents.

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    4. @Jimmy Joe Meeker

      The failure of people’s purchasing power to increase more rapidly is primarily due to government interference in the economy, having little to do with immigration

      And I’m sorry, but if we’re gonna compare sob stories I’m more likely to sympahize with the guy who’s family is trapped in Haiti than with the guy who’s wife has to get a job so they can afford to move into an all-white neighborhood.

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    5. ES: Did I write it was due to immigration? Nope. I answered the question regarding birth rate. Yes, it is almost entirely due to government interference in the economy. Interference in the economy can have remarkable consequences. But a lot of this interference is targeted via selective enforcement, social conditioning and so on.

      Also it's not a question of 'sob' stories. RW's post made it seem so simple for anyone to live around their own kind. It's not depending on one's 'kind'. Anything that isn't at least upper middle class and 'white' (often those people who wouldn't have been considered white a century plus ago) is a target for government and foundations for diversity and low income housing. Not the free market, but collusion and deals and subsidizing people who will bring problems. Next thing you know the whole character of the place has changed.

      There is a lot of government interference involved in demographic change on numerous levels.

      Donxon: I wrote taxpayers, not dependents. Marketable skills... hmm. Did you miss the part about how it takes two professional incomes to afford the same house a factory worker bought new in the 50s or 60s provided its still a nice area? Just take a look at those blue collar suburban homes from the 1960s in RW's neck of the woods. $1.5 million last I looked which was some time ago. Regardless of the bootstrappiness of rising to the challenge it takes far greater marketable skills today than it did then for the same result.

      LM: Magic dirt doesn't. Immigrants like all people are a mixed bag. The problem is that the nation's management class are apparently aiming for a result. As they have been for over a century. It is their interference that is more concerning than immigration itself.


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  7. “A recent piece in National Geographic profiles the small coal mining town of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. In the year 2000, Hazleton’s population was 2 percent Hispanic. Just 16 years later, Hazleton is majority Hispanic. People who grew up in Hazleton return to find out they can’t communicate with the people who now live there. No nation, no society has ever changed this much, this fast.”

    “And notice where this change is not happening? Any place our leaders live. They caused all of us with their reckless immigration policies, and yet their own neighborhoods are basically unchanged, they look like it’s 1960. No demographic change at all in their zip codes. Our leaders are for diversity, just not where they live.”

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  8. In the US since 2013, more non-Caucasian babies are born each year than Caucasian babies.
    http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/23/its-official-minority-babies-are-the-majority-among-the-nations-infants-but-only-just/

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    1. Re: Marmite,

      --- In the US since 2013, more non-Caucasian babies are born each year than Caucasian babies. ---

      And that is concerning because... You don't like Asian women? Or what is it?

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    2. Good, since most Caucasians are supporters of the always warring 900 military base US Empire.

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  9. Tucker is at his weakest when talking about immigration. On foreign policy he's good, from a libertarian perspective. Most economic issues he's good on too. But immigration...nope.

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  10. A march to honor the death of Kate Steinle is interrupted by the pro immigration crowd who cover their faces and carry sticks:
    https://www.infowars.com/infowars-reporter-confronts-city-council-over-masked-antifa/

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  11. People don't flee diversity. But when diversity brings rising crime rates and depreciating property values they get out as soon as possible. That is when neighborhoods become unrecognizable. I don't think that was that hard to figure out.

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