Low effort thread about @RichardHanania discussion with Amy Wax yesterday, since my other thread did well. Unfortunately, I don't have video.
Rich is surprised to hear Wax say that diversity leads to free speech being quashed, but that happens all the time. Here is an example from Malaysia: thosewhocansee.blogspot.com/2018/10/so-whe…
Richard says that immigrants assimilate, and that is true for things like language and dress and stuff but he fails to understand the differences below the surface persist. Here is trust from The Culture Transplant:
Something similar can be seen with whites moving out of the South, and the subtle changes they brought:
Amy Wax is correct that the culture she grew up in really was unified in a lot of ways. One way to see that is names.
Richard says that racial issues can be described as a white civil war about black issues. He ignores that Asians and Hispanics grow the lefts ranks in many ways ie most Hispanics support BLM
Richard says that whites who care about illegals don't live around any. Doesn't seem to be the case. Whites also flee wealthy Asian areas. theconversation.com/donald-trump-a…
Hanania brought up Jan 6th said that Wax would be extremely angry if it were done by Hispanics. I thought he had a decent point, but one thing to note is frustration over immigration likely contributed to Jan 6th.
Hanania says that we need to let all college graduates in to catch the next Jensen Huang. That would be a bad idea.
His policy also would have let America let these two fine gentlemen in:
Related to Nvidia, there are lessons to be learned looking into the chip industry in Taiwan. The role that the government played in building it up would no doubt be looked down upon by Richard. They worked to get a small number of skilled people, not every developer in India.
Some of the most people Taiwan got were high skilled immigrants to the US. In some sense, US skilled immigration policy may have helped build our competitors:
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