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Tucker Carlson Has A Point About The Dangers Of Immigration: We Don't Teach American Values
The Federalist ^
| 07/12/2019
| John Daniel Davidson
Posted on 07/12/2019 11:15:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Tucker Carlsons monologue Tuesday night going after Rep. Ilhan Omar for her anti-American statements provoked predictable accusations of racism, in particular against his contention that Omar is living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country.
But as my colleague David Harsanyi noted, Carlson wasnt criticizing Omar because of her race or religious background, but because of her radical ideas, because she doesnt believe in the traditional ideas that define American life.
Harsanyi disagrees with Carlson about immigration as a whole, though. He says, contra Carlson, that liberal immigration policies are good, and add much to American society. In general, this is correct. Or at least it has been the case throughout most of our history.
Where Carlson has a point, however, is in his assertion that, No country can import large numbers of people who hate it, and expect to survive. Thats true of both immigrants and the native born, and indeed Carlson has also noted recently that no country can be governed by people who hate itlike the crowded field of Democratic candidates scrambling to denounce Americaand expect to survive.
The question, then, is whether were doing enough to ensure that both immigrants and the native-born dont end up hating America the way Omar, who has every reason not to hate America, obviously does. We arguably ask too little of our immigrants and dont do a good job of assimilating themand by assimilating, I mean instilling in them traditional American values.
But the reason we dont do a very good job of that anymore is because we dont do a very good job of creating Americans from the native-born population in general.
The immigration question, in this context, is a little like the question of adding more states. Why, under a post-constitutional progressive regime in which state governments are in thrall to federal policy, would any conservative want to add more states to the union? Under the circumstances, adding more states would make our structural problems with so-called cooperative federalism worse, since theres zero chance that any new state would resist federal money and the strings attached to it.
In the same vein, why would we want to take in large numbers of immigrants just to have their children attend public schools and universities that indoctrinate them with progressive ideology and teach them to hate America? Indeed, the infiltration of our institutions by progressives is pervasive. You cant even go to the local public library these days without having transgenderism and other progressive values forced on you.
Beyond institutions, were now faced with the horrible phenomenon of woke capitalism, in which massive corporations aggressively push identity politics on their customers, whether they ask for it or not, and what used to be unifying symbols, like a Revolutionary War flag, are instead taken as icons of slavery and racism.
Its hard to create patriotic Americans in such an environment, and harder still to persuade newcomers to be patriotic Americans. While its true that the United States is far better at assimilating immigrants than, say, France and Germany, we are steadily becoming more like those countries in this respect.
Some, like The Atlantics Conor Friedersdorf, think its absurd to say that Omar proves anything, for better or worse, about Americas immigration system. Isnt getting elected to Congress a great achievement, and proof of assimilation? he asks.
Well, no, not really. Omar and others on the far-left want to eradicate the American constitutional system, which they believe is a source of oppression and injustice. That they want to do so by gaining control of the levers of power is, if anything, proof that theyre seriousthat they really mean what they say.
But we might improve on Carlsons assertion that Omar is living proof that the way we practice immigration is dangerous by taking one step back. Somewhere along the line, despite everything America gave to Omar and her family, she was taught to despise this country.
That should give us pause, because it means the problem goes far beyond immigration. It includes all of us, and nearly every institution of public life. Omar, in this view, is living proof that the way we educate our children, and the way we live now as a nation, is very dangerous indeed.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: immigration; tuckercarlson
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To: SeekAndFind
Of course we do not teach AMERICAN VALUES. Look at who and what controls academia.
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posted on
07/12/2019 11:23:39 AM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: SeekAndFind
“traditional American values”
That should read “essential American values”. Not like Scots wearing kilts or Greeks say “opa”. Lacking these values, we’d still be some degenerate backwater of England and Spain. Losing them, we might as well pack it in. Done.
To: SeekAndFind
Well according to our betters, anything that could be labeled as “American” values or culture is inherently racist.
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posted on
07/12/2019 11:24:15 AM PDT
by
yuleeyahoo
(The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
To: yuleeyahoo
RE: anything that could be labeled as American values or culture is inherently racist.
OK, what values do they want then?
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posted on
07/12/2019 11:25:50 AM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it will)
To: SeekAndFind
It’s an excellent point.
When we had the massive waves of immigration coming in the early 20th Century we had settlement houses and other programs intended to help ASSIMILATE those immigrants.
Today ASSIMILATE is a dirty word. Racist-sexist-bigoted-homophobe and the rest of it.
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posted on
07/12/2019 11:26:47 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: rightwingcrazy
The 1965 immigration act that Ted Kennedy assured us would not flood the country with foreigners and would not change the demographics has done both.
It was a slow acting cyanide capsule.
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posted on
07/12/2019 11:27:20 AM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: rightwingcrazy
That should read essential American values.
I will give you a good example. I know some highly educated immigrants. Naturalized US Citizens with advanced degrees. Their ignorance of our Constitution is shocking. To the point where you wonder just how in the hell they are managing to get through this supposed test that you need to take to gain citizenship.
Not only do they not know the Constitution, but they actually seem to oppose it. They have no foundation on the reasons WHY things like the electoral college and separation of powers are in there.
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posted on
07/12/2019 11:29:29 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: Lurkinanloomin
What, you mean a Kennedy lied?
Stop the presses!
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posted on
07/12/2019 11:30:02 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
RE: When we had the massive waves of immigration coming in the early 20th Century we had settlement houses and other programs intended to help ASSIMILATE those immigrants.
Yes, and we turned on and off, the immigration numbers as needed.
Turning it off for some years to allow the current immigrants to assimilate, and then turning it back on to news migrants, once the existing ones were assimilated.
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posted on
07/12/2019 11:30:03 AM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it will)
To: SeekAndFind
We don’t require them learn the language either. That should be first.
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posted on
07/12/2019 11:33:57 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: SeekAndFind
There is a higher and more essential question:
Does the resident of the USA, citizen or not, have a sense of personal ownership in the USA?
That question determines their level of patriotic loyalty.
Personal ownership generally needs long term social integration, native language fluency, schooling, career, kids born in the USA, getting wealthier, etc.
To: b4its2late
RE: We dont require them learn the language either. That should be first.
Well, the USA does not (repeat NOT) have an of official language like the UK or Spain or China have.
English is de facto here, but not official. Just go to any Department of Transportation of your state and see if you have written tests only in English...
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posted on
07/12/2019 11:40:33 AM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it will)
To: SeekAndFind
American values are exactly what the radical left wants to extinguish.
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posted on
07/12/2019 11:54:21 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: SeekAndFind
No country can import large numbers of people who hate it, and expect to survive. BINGO!
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posted on
07/12/2019 11:57:14 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(MSNBC Bimbos & Pretentious men: EVERY CHILD RAPIST on Epstein's plane was a powerful democrat...)
To: SeekAndFind
You know, righteous ones like marxism, feminism, and the various qwertyisms.
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posted on
07/12/2019 12:00:40 PM PDT
by
yuleeyahoo
(The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
To: SeekAndFind; wardaddy; Pelham; DiogenesLamp; Dick Bachert; GSWarrior; John S Mosby
Should we not develop a matrix of psychological attitudes or traits, indicative of a personality susceptible to best appreciate the social values of the Founders, in building a political society based on individual responsibility, to determine those best suited to be a part of the political economy, the Founders envisioned?
Doesn't the idea of a merit based standard require such an approach to screening applicants?
An American Immigration Policy
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posted on
07/12/2019 12:07:54 PM PDT
by
Ohioan
To: SeekAndFind
America had huge amounts of immigrants in the early 20th century. But they were nearly all European, nearly all cultural Christians, they were not enticed or entitled with government benefits (meaning they were forced to be self-sufficient) and as Carlson points out, there was very strong pressure and education to assimilate and become Americans.
None of these points is true today. Its a recipe for strife and division.
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posted on
07/12/2019 12:11:23 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: SeekAndFind
Some, like The Atlantics Conor Friedersdorf, think its absurd to say that Omar proves anything, for better or worse, about Americas immigration system. Isnt getting elected to Congress a great achievement, and proof of assimilation? he asks.
It takes some pretty defective wiring to consider a republic being governed by foreigners who hate it to be an "achievement."
To: Ohioan
We should have scrapped the 1965 immigration act decades ago and stopped importing the 3rd world. It has transformed California and much of the rest of the United States. I don’t remember anyone asking us if that is what we wanted.
The Democrats saw how this was playing out and have become a party openly hostile to native white Americans.
The Republican establishment figured out how they could make a buck off of it and they sat back and let the Democrats determine the future of what was once America.
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posted on
07/12/2019 12:23:53 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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