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27 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Woke economist Dana Peterson recently estimated the "cost of racism" at around $16 trillion. Black Lives Matter views looting a form of reparations. Therefore, months of looting can be seen as having put a significant dent in Peterson's number.
Source on BLM seeing looting as reparations: chicagotribune.com/columns/dahlee…
Source for "cost of racism" (lmao): msn.com/en-us/money/ma…
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Yes. Immigration, in general, is bad for the Republican Party, and the ends of conservatism, insofar as conservatism intends to conserve a way of life. It doesn't matter if they come from Mexico or Germany, immigration means change. You can argue pros/cons, but you can't deny it.
I should say a particular kind of life. It's also harder for immigrants to assimilate when they live in areas that basically become linguistic-ethnic enclaves. Why learn English when everyone around you speaks Spanish?
On the other hand, I can't help but feel bummed when I know socially conservative, basically normal immigrants come to America and are ruined by what passes for our "culture" today. There is a reason Nigerian immigrants basically don't want their kids to assimilate.
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Oh, cool, because only Hispanic families need help putting their kids in better schools. I'll let me poor white neighbors with Trump flags on their porches know that we will be taken care of simply because we are a "Hispanic family," but their kids won't because they're white 1/
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A problem with "nation as idea" is that Humza Yousaf can claim to be as Scottish as someone whose ancestors have lived there for hundreds of years, but Yousaf can enforce his view of what being Scottish actually is or is not, which is ironically a much more exclusive society 1/
i.e., a society based on an idea or set of ideas will be much more intolerant than a traditional society connected to an actual group of people and place. All public and private life falls beneath the microscope compliance with the ideology
That naturally means invasion of privacy to enforce compliance with the ideology. You think Lithuania is bad because it's not an "idea"? Wait until the new Soviets get to impose compliance with "idea" in you
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Trump's secret weapon for wooing suburban white women is probably Mike "Silk" Pence. Does he use him enough for this purpose?
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First Ice Cube gets $500 billion out of the Trump administration with the help of Jared Kushner, now Kushner is bringing Katie Walsh Shields back into the fold as an adviser, who actually tried to pull Trump from the ballot on 2016. I guess we know who's running the White House. Image
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Trump administration policy brought to you by... Ice Cube. This is just what people wanted when they imagined themselves as the heroes of the Flight 93 election in 2016! I guess the airplane got hijacked back by Jared Kushner and his goons?
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Framed another way: The Make America Great Again people solicit policy ideas from a man who thinks America is evil and raps about murdering cops
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