"After World War II, it was the populations that moved instead. Millions of people were expelled from their homes and countries, with at least the tacit support of the victorious Allies."
"One could argue that Europe has been so harmonious since World War II not because of the failure of ethnic nationalism but because of its success, which removed some of the greatest sources of conflict both within and between countries."
"The fact that ethnic and state boundaries now largely coincide has meant that there are fewer disputes over borders or expatriate communities, leading to the most stable territorial configuration in European history" Quotes from: researchgate.net/publication/29…
So many people had to suffer and die to create the currently reality of mostly homogenous states in Europe, and elites are arrogantly throwing it away mixing together population that are far more different than the ones that caused conflicts in the 20th century.
As Ive tweeted before, border denialists have blood on their hands
1/ Thread looking at paper from 2014 from dissecting claims of a labor shortage. This data is all old at this point but we see similar narratives today. On one side people claiming a labor shortage and on the other side, college graduates claiming they can't get jobs.
2/ The idea that America is falling behind in skills goes back a long time.
Some excerpts from WSJ article about the 10 million population cap referendum in Switzerland. The journal admits the historic wave of immigration to the West hasn't solved economic problems:
Economics professor from Canada admits that immigration hasn't solved Canada's problems.
Economic output per worker has stagnated across some of the countries that have accepted the most immigrants.
1/Short thread on race and Greek life. This legal scholar recently filed some FOIA requests for public universities to get some data on mainstream frats and sororities (IFC/Panhellenic) and this is what the data looks like overall:
2/ The IFC fraternities they looked at were slightly less white at around 72%. Everywhere greeks life was at least 15% whiter than the university population as a whole.
3/ Comparison between % of undergrads who are black vs panhellenic sororities. At the schools that turned over chapter level data almost half of chapters had no black members.
1/ Short thread. The WSJ asked business historians to rank the greatest entrepreneurs and business leaders in American history. Here are the racial demographics: