I'd say the solution is changing our immigration system to a merit based one and making sure no immigrant can collect welfare. Do that and immigration becomes a huge plus instead of the minus that it is today.
John Hawkins lacks a lot of knowledge about human history. 12,000 years ago, the people living in Europe did not even look like the Northern Europeans of today. Human populations change over thousands of years. When the Sumerians were developing the first complete writing system in human history, dividing the circle into 360 degrees, developing a math system based on the number 60, building the first cities in human history, the Europeans were far behind them in such developments. Average IQs of human populations change over thousands of years. No one race or ethnic group has an innate superior average IQ.
No one should discriminate against those of European descent; however, the group of people in human history that has killed more of their own and more of other races and ethnic groups of people are the people of Europe. Even though they have killed more people in human history than any other racial group, no one should stereotype those of European descent or discriminate against them since racism is one of the most hideous of human traits. The human family needs to learn how to live together in peace, but we currently do not have the science technology or the social technology to achieve such a task.
On the topic of immigration, every immigrant should come to the USA as part of a legal process. India has about one-third the land area of the USA, but it has a population of about 1.4 billion individuals. Yes, the USA does have a lot of land area that could accommodate hundreds of millions of additional human individuals, but immigration needs to be done in an orderly manner.
You try to sound fair but it's your attitude and beliefs that will turn the US into a 3rd world country. Our open spaces are valued by all but those who cram themselves into warrens of degradation like the blue hells of democrat progressive run cities full of downtrodden hands-out- give-me-something-for-nothing losers, lorded over by a few power hungry psychopaths. My guess is you work for an NGO and have hurt far more needy and downtrodden than you've ever helped, while having no problem robbing the working taxpayer of their hard-earned living to take care of foreigners who don't care about or understand the values upon which this country was founded. We do not need a hoard of unsuccessful people from unsuccessful countries invading our borders. We have far too many of them already, and far too many like you who live in a mindset of rainbows and unicorns.
You start out your comment by referring to a thousands year long baseline of history, yet you compare it to what? The changes in demographics in the US over the last 57 years. Defining Europeans as warlike and racist, while ignoring the technology advances that weapons development fosters. How many countries has the US invaded and conquered, even with the most powerful military? Left wingers want to scream that the US exploits and pollutes the world, yet when the white population in the US reigned in its population growth, suddenly all our less densely populated land needs to be filled by other races that have not. John Hawkins is right, it's simply absurd to allow immigrants to come here and receive welfare. If American citizens somehow owe everyone else in the world free taxpayer funded benefits, the 7 billion people on the planet would simply swamp the 330 million who live here. Do you see anybody on the Democrat side showing any understanding of that basic fact? Finally, you created a straw man so you could attack white people as racist- where do you see in Hawkins essay that white people have higher IQ's?
Your article is a good summary of what’s going on. Now we need the solution.
I'd say the solution is changing our immigration system to a merit based one and making sure no immigrant can collect welfare. Do that and immigration becomes a huge plus instead of the minus that it is today.
Agreed. Abolish chain migration. Go to a meritocracy-based system of immigration. We should look like the NFL draft of immigration.
John Hawkins lacks a lot of knowledge about human history. 12,000 years ago, the people living in Europe did not even look like the Northern Europeans of today. Human populations change over thousands of years. When the Sumerians were developing the first complete writing system in human history, dividing the circle into 360 degrees, developing a math system based on the number 60, building the first cities in human history, the Europeans were far behind them in such developments. Average IQs of human populations change over thousands of years. No one race or ethnic group has an innate superior average IQ.
No one should discriminate against those of European descent; however, the group of people in human history that has killed more of their own and more of other races and ethnic groups of people are the people of Europe. Even though they have killed more people in human history than any other racial group, no one should stereotype those of European descent or discriminate against them since racism is one of the most hideous of human traits. The human family needs to learn how to live together in peace, but we currently do not have the science technology or the social technology to achieve such a task.
On the topic of immigration, every immigrant should come to the USA as part of a legal process. India has about one-third the land area of the USA, but it has a population of about 1.4 billion individuals. Yes, the USA does have a lot of land area that could accommodate hundreds of millions of additional human individuals, but immigration needs to be done in an orderly manner.
You try to sound fair but it's your attitude and beliefs that will turn the US into a 3rd world country. Our open spaces are valued by all but those who cram themselves into warrens of degradation like the blue hells of democrat progressive run cities full of downtrodden hands-out- give-me-something-for-nothing losers, lorded over by a few power hungry psychopaths. My guess is you work for an NGO and have hurt far more needy and downtrodden than you've ever helped, while having no problem robbing the working taxpayer of their hard-earned living to take care of foreigners who don't care about or understand the values upon which this country was founded. We do not need a hoard of unsuccessful people from unsuccessful countries invading our borders. We have far too many of them already, and far too many like you who live in a mindset of rainbows and unicorns.
You start out your comment by referring to a thousands year long baseline of history, yet you compare it to what? The changes in demographics in the US over the last 57 years. Defining Europeans as warlike and racist, while ignoring the technology advances that weapons development fosters. How many countries has the US invaded and conquered, even with the most powerful military? Left wingers want to scream that the US exploits and pollutes the world, yet when the white population in the US reigned in its population growth, suddenly all our less densely populated land needs to be filled by other races that have not. John Hawkins is right, it's simply absurd to allow immigrants to come here and receive welfare. If American citizens somehow owe everyone else in the world free taxpayer funded benefits, the 7 billion people on the planet would simply swamp the 330 million who live here. Do you see anybody on the Democrat side showing any understanding of that basic fact? Finally, you created a straw man so you could attack white people as racist- where do you see in Hawkins essay that white people have higher IQ's?