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NIMBYism is not the fault of immigrants.
Immigrants in the US commit crime at a lower rate than natives. Native Black people do commit crime at a very high rate, which can ruin neighbourhoods, but that has nothing to do with immigrants.
What exactly is the problem? Just the fact that they're Asian?
You have zero good sources for immigrants commit less crime. Because the US does not have good data. I believe it’s Sweden that has good data on immigrants. And they commit a lot more crime.
Harvard discriminated against Asians in admissions for a reason. I don’t make the rules but even the elites decided Asians kill the vibes of a place.
Google "immigrants commit less crime" and you'll find studies galore. We can have a look at one in particular if you like. The profile of immigrants in the US and Sweden is very different and it is entirely plausible that immigrants to Sweden commit more crime than natives and immigrants to the US commit less crime than natives.
The reason being they're extremely racist? I mean, what you are saying about Asians is racist by any reasonable definition.
I know those studies exists. They all have flaws and the top one is grouping blacks with natives. We don’t want more black level crime. Classification on status is also a big issue.
The Swedish studies show a very agreeable issue - you need to heavily filter immigration at a bare minimum. If crime is the only standard then you need to be very racists in selecting who immigrates.
Sure Harvard is being racists. Is racism wrong?
Once you accept human biodiversity and differences in athletics and intelligence then there are almost certainly personality difference. US natives find Asians boring. Asians probably find us natives loud and obnoxious.
Since I’ve worked in trading. Citadel loves hiring Asian math Olympiad winners. They probably do make better market making algorithms and GDP goes up. But for a work environment I would much prefer being around a bunch of old floor traders. To me they are just cooler guys to hang out with.
How convenient that Blacks are too rowdy and criminal, Asians too boring and presumably not criminal enough, and your own race is just right.
Well I mean yes. Every race evolved to optimize for the living conditions they grew up in. I am not saying any race is better than others. It’s just each race prefers living with their own race.
Asians do not let non-Asians immigrate to their countries. Africans well are on video saying kill the boer and want to expel whites from S Africa. It’s a fairly universal belief to want to segregate.
And hey look we still see distinct voting patterns by ethnicities decades and centuries after they came here.
https://x.com/xwanyex/status/2072701003372060913?s=46
Not the majority view in South Africa, even among Blacks.
What point are you making exactly? The Irish, Italians and Germans shouldn't have been allowed in?
“ What point are you making exactly? The Irish, Italians and Germans shouldn't have been allowed in?”
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He's not saying he's better than Asians. He's saying that lots of people with an American passport are still different people from his people and he wants to be around people like him. I can relate.
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