Scapegoating immigrants for political polarization or the "loss of social cohesion" is especially nonsensical given the underrepresentation of immigrant groups in the most radical and extreme elements of the left and right. Most immigrants either want to "live and let live" and are totally disengaged from politics, or they try their best to assimilate into the majority culture around them -- they're not trying to steer the country in some crazy new direction.
All of the most polarizing ideologies in America cropped up between the 1960s and the 2010s. Indians, East Asians, and Mexicans deserve 0% of the blame for this.
AOC and Mamdani didn't start the push for socialism -- that was the Bernie bros, who were overwhelmingly white. It wasn't brown immigrants who started Critical Race Theory or popularized transgenderism.
To the extent that immigrants sometimes join extremist movements, they are "riding a wave" which was created by "Heritage Americans."
What better proof of integration than the defense of others? America has never had a detailed monoculture - we have always maintained our unique cultural bits while also sublimating the general American 'oeuvre'.
The nativist faction tries so hard to deny this but its too self-evident, evidenced even by their choice of spouse. While Rufo et al. might try to fight the definition, America and American-ism will always remain a set of values. Our history isn't long nor isolated enough for it to be anything else.
"The best argument against Ross is not found in the video. It's that we all know the type of activist he was dealing with, and it's almost impossible to believe he'd believe she would have run him over if he had just taken a step to the side."
Legal self defense is pretty arcane, might be that the guy should walk for technical reasons. But is he a murderer in his heart? I'm pretty convinced of it.
The lady was basically Heather Cox Richardson. HCR might yell at you or get you fired but she's not going to run you over in her car.
I think I basically agree with you, although I find it hard to see obstructing law enforcement as heroic unless you know they are arresting innocent people.
What surprises me is that you did not expect this when you supported Trump in the election? By all means the trade stuff was a surprise but this is basically his core campaign promise right?
A classic example of "but if we don't have any illegal wetbacks who is going to pick my arugula"
Having sponsored hundreds of legal immigrants in my corporate life and marched with Cesar Chavez to end the exploitation of illegals who think they are above the law and depress farm worker wages, I am very tired of justifications of ignoring immigration laws by people who need cheap maids and lawn maintenance.
Academic research broadly supports the claim that U.S. mainstream (largely white-owned) media disproportionately prioritize and humanize white victims over Black victims. This pattern appears across multiple methodologies—content analysis, framing analysis, and audience-effects research—and persists even when controlling for crime severity and victim characteristics.
Scholars find that cases involving white victims receive more frequent coverage, longer story duration, and more sympathetic framing. White victims are more likely to be depicted through personal details—family photos, childhood stories, aspirations, and interviews with grieving relatives—while Black victims are more often framed through criminal context, prior records, or abstract statistics. This differential framing affects how audiences perceive innocence, worth, and urgency.
A foundational line of research in sociology and communication studies shows that news narratives systematically attach individuality and moral innocence to white victims, while Black victims are more often depersonalized or subtly problematized. Studies published in outlets such as the American Journal of Sociology and Journal of Communication demonstrate that Black victims are less likely to be shown smiling, named prominently in headlines, or described in terms that elicit empathy. Instead, coverage more frequently emphasizes neighborhood crime rates, prior police contact, or ambiguity about culpability—elements that dampen public sympathy.
The phenomenon often described as “missing white woman syndrome” is one visible manifestation of this broader pattern: white female victims receive sustained, emotionally rich coverage, while missing or murdered Black women and men receive minimal or episodic attention. Research by media scholars and organizations such as Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative and Pew Research Center confirms that these disparities are not explained solely by crime rates or newsworthiness, but by racialized assumptions about victimhood and audience identification.
Crucially, this is not just a representational issue. Experimental studies show that audiences exposed to humanized portrayals are more likely to support investigations, policy responses, and collective mourning. When white lives are consistently framed as fully human—complex, innocent, and grievable—while Black lives are framed as conditional or contextualized, media coverage reinforces racial hierarchies of empathy and social value.
In short, the academic consensus is not that white journalists consciously devalue Black lives, but that structural media practices—ownership, newsroom demographics, sourcing norms, and narrative templates—systematically humanize white victims more fully, producing unequal moral attention and public response.
The Biden administration opened the southern border to flood the US with millions of non whites to speed up the reduction of the white population to below 50%.The overwhelming majority of those people were unvaccinated, at the same time as the native population was being hounded to take the jab. Trillions of dollars were printed that created a level of inflation that was not recorded in the official figures. Like all non whites those immigrants will always have the potential to benefit from civil rights legislation throughout their lifetimes.Collectively native blacks and Hispanics cost the US Trillions, while Asian businesses exploit the pro "minority" system to a much greater degree than blacks and Hispanics. White women are also endowed with minority status too which explains quite a lot.
Stephen Miller is trying to undo some of what the aforementioned Mayorkas did, but it will probably end up mostly performative.
Scapegoating immigrants for political polarization or the "loss of social cohesion" is especially nonsensical given the underrepresentation of immigrant groups in the most radical and extreme elements of the left and right. Most immigrants either want to "live and let live" and are totally disengaged from politics, or they try their best to assimilate into the majority culture around them -- they're not trying to steer the country in some crazy new direction.
All of the most polarizing ideologies in America cropped up between the 1960s and the 2010s. Indians, East Asians, and Mexicans deserve 0% of the blame for this.
AOC and Mamdani didn't start the push for socialism -- that was the Bernie bros, who were overwhelmingly white. It wasn't brown immigrants who started Critical Race Theory or popularized transgenderism.
To the extent that immigrants sometimes join extremist movements, they are "riding a wave" which was created by "Heritage Americans."
Newsflash Jews ain't white
What better proof of integration than the defense of others? America has never had a detailed monoculture - we have always maintained our unique cultural bits while also sublimating the general American 'oeuvre'.
The nativist faction tries so hard to deny this but its too self-evident, evidenced even by their choice of spouse. While Rufo et al. might try to fight the definition, America and American-ism will always remain a set of values. Our history isn't long nor isolated enough for it to be anything else.
Great take from Noam the comedy cellar guy:
"The best argument against Ross is not found in the video. It's that we all know the type of activist he was dealing with, and it's almost impossible to believe he'd believe she would have run him over if he had just taken a step to the side."
Legal self defense is pretty arcane, might be that the guy should walk for technical reasons. But is he a murderer in his heart? I'm pretty convinced of it.
The lady was basically Heather Cox Richardson. HCR might yell at you or get you fired but she's not going to run you over in her car.
I think I basically agree with you, although I find it hard to see obstructing law enforcement as heroic unless you know they are arresting innocent people.
What surprises me is that you did not expect this when you supported Trump in the election? By all means the trade stuff was a surprise but this is basically his core campaign promise right?
A classic example of "but if we don't have any illegal wetbacks who is going to pick my arugula"
Having sponsored hundreds of legal immigrants in my corporate life and marched with Cesar Chavez to end the exploitation of illegals who think they are above the law and depress farm worker wages, I am very tired of justifications of ignoring immigration laws by people who need cheap maids and lawn maintenance.
Academic research broadly supports the claim that U.S. mainstream (largely white-owned) media disproportionately prioritize and humanize white victims over Black victims. This pattern appears across multiple methodologies—content analysis, framing analysis, and audience-effects research—and persists even when controlling for crime severity and victim characteristics.
Scholars find that cases involving white victims receive more frequent coverage, longer story duration, and more sympathetic framing. White victims are more likely to be depicted through personal details—family photos, childhood stories, aspirations, and interviews with grieving relatives—while Black victims are more often framed through criminal context, prior records, or abstract statistics. This differential framing affects how audiences perceive innocence, worth, and urgency.
A foundational line of research in sociology and communication studies shows that news narratives systematically attach individuality and moral innocence to white victims, while Black victims are more often depersonalized or subtly problematized. Studies published in outlets such as the American Journal of Sociology and Journal of Communication demonstrate that Black victims are less likely to be shown smiling, named prominently in headlines, or described in terms that elicit empathy. Instead, coverage more frequently emphasizes neighborhood crime rates, prior police contact, or ambiguity about culpability—elements that dampen public sympathy.
The phenomenon often described as “missing white woman syndrome” is one visible manifestation of this broader pattern: white female victims receive sustained, emotionally rich coverage, while missing or murdered Black women and men receive minimal or episodic attention. Research by media scholars and organizations such as Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative and Pew Research Center confirms that these disparities are not explained solely by crime rates or newsworthiness, but by racialized assumptions about victimhood and audience identification.
Crucially, this is not just a representational issue. Experimental studies show that audiences exposed to humanized portrayals are more likely to support investigations, policy responses, and collective mourning. When white lives are consistently framed as fully human—complex, innocent, and grievable—while Black lives are framed as conditional or contextualized, media coverage reinforces racial hierarchies of empathy and social value.
In short, the academic consensus is not that white journalists consciously devalue Black lives, but that structural media practices—ownership, newsroom demographics, sourcing norms, and narrative templates—systematically humanize white victims more fully, producing unequal moral attention and public response.
The Biden administration opened the southern border to flood the US with millions of non whites to speed up the reduction of the white population to below 50%.The overwhelming majority of those people were unvaccinated, at the same time as the native population was being hounded to take the jab. Trillions of dollars were printed that created a level of inflation that was not recorded in the official figures. Like all non whites those immigrants will always have the potential to benefit from civil rights legislation throughout their lifetimes.Collectively native blacks and Hispanics cost the US Trillions, while Asian businesses exploit the pro "minority" system to a much greater degree than blacks and Hispanics. White women are also endowed with minority status too which explains quite a lot.
Stephen Miller is trying to undo some of what the aforementioned Mayorkas did, but it will probably end up mostly performative.
You sound fashy. Your kind will never be welcome in polite society. Btw tell RFK that vaccines are good