In this episode, we discuss immigration, racism, and white privilege. We discuss how white privilege is the root cause of all evil, and how we should all work together to fight against it. We also talk about the role of white privilege in our society, and why it is a problem.
00:00:00.000You know, you look at Silicon Valley. Right. I think it's the majority or at least a huge chunk of the unicorn founders are first generation or second generation immigrants.
00:00:09.160A lot. Yeah. That is what creates the economic dynamism of our country, because as we get further and further from this period of trial and it is that period of trial that makes us truly Americans, we become less American.
00:00:22.960We become more indolent. We become more pathetic. Right. And we can undergo this trial again, but we need to commit to it.
00:00:31.420I mean, keep in mind, every majority Catholic immigrant population that has ever come to America has come with gangs. The Irish, the mob, the Italians, the mafia, you know, the Hispanics, you get the R15 or whatever it's called.
00:00:42.120Like, yeah, OK, but this country is better for our Italian and Irish immigrant population.
00:00:48.140You know, sometimes I'll be talking to another Republican and they'll be like, I don't like Muslim culture.
00:00:55.300And I'm like, do you like Trump? It's like, OK, well, then you definitely like Persian culture.
00:01:00.220If a first generation legal immigrant is ever going on welfare, they should be immediately expelled from the country.
00:01:04.340Well, I mean, we hold similar stances for anyone who is a drain on the nations.
00:01:48.580You know, when we point out in our video on one of the greatest lies ever told to the American public that there is a racist conservative base that are more racist than the Democrats, it's just a lie.
00:01:58.260Like, you look at FiveThirtyEight polling and up until Obama was elected, more white Democrats wouldn't vote for black presidents than white Republicans.
00:02:04.900The situation is actually elucidated as being even worse than this in a recent set of studies, where it showed that the more Democrats you had in a region, the worse both black and Hispanic populations did when contrasted with the local white populations.
00:02:21.220So having Republicans, even modern Republicans, as your politicians in a region or having a lot of the people who you are interacting with be Republicans in a region, you are going to do disproportionately well off when contrasted with the average population if you are black and Hispanic, even today.
00:02:39.360But the Republican elites have gained their idea about what Americans think from the progressive stereotypes of what their base thinks, because they don't actually have a connection to their base, because most of their friends are progressives, and they're just acting out some idiotic role.
00:02:56.000I also want to take a moment here to address some of our fans who watch this and will sometimes comment things like, why are you guys so against ethnocentrism?
00:03:03.380Because I can understand to somebody that it might not seem like such a bad thing to care about your ethnic group over other ethnic groups.
00:03:11.300And this is a bit like somebody not understanding when they're from a different cultural group, and I'm like, it's a bad thing to promote your family members to government positions, even if they don't deserve those positions.
00:03:22.680And they're like, what? No. Nepotism is intrinsically ethical. I'm just helping family. Helping family is always right.
00:03:29.160And it's like, well, it's not always right when it hurts society at large.
00:03:33.380And this is the same thing with pretty much all forms of ethnocentrism.
00:03:37.460It's showing a short-term preference for people who are similar to you genetically over a long-term preference for the good of society and the good of our species.
00:03:46.380Because if you look, if you're thinking, 100,000 years, a million years out, are black people, white people, Hispanic people going to exist?
00:03:53.620No, obviously not. Therefore, any sort of preference for these groups, especially if you're specifically giving preference to groups that are more like your own, shows a preference for personal vanity and vanity of the self over the long-term best interest of our species.
00:04:10.300It is showing oneself to be a traitor to the best interest of the human species in the long run.
00:04:17.120And a traitor to their nation in the long run, because clearly it's not in the best interest of their nation either.
00:04:22.340What is in the best interest is to always promote and advance whoever is meritocratically best.
00:04:28.580And again, because this is the way we see what racism really is, we see Democrats as much more racist than Republicans through the enacting of things like affirmative action.
00:04:37.580Because ethnocentrism isn't, you know, a monopoly held by white people.
00:04:41.540And you can be ethnocentric for other races as well, which is what the Democrats absolutely are.
00:04:47.040And as we see from the previous polls that I just mentioned here, this affirmative action is obviously hurting these populations in the long run, as can be seen by the more Democrat a region is, the less achievement or differential achievement you see between the local white population and either the black or Hispanic population.
00:05:04.660So the way I see it, there is no middle ground here.
00:05:07.520You either live to serve the human species and live to advance the interests of the human species, or you live to serve yourself and advance the interests of yourself.
00:05:15.760Of course, there's the third group, which is the negative utilitarians, which live to undermine the interests of the human species, even at a cost to themselves.
00:05:24.680So they obviously are a uniquely evil group.
00:05:27.560But of the rest of the population, I really think it can easily, when I look at, like, who are our allies, they get split into those two categories.
00:05:35.300Is their best interest the interest of the human species, or is their best interest serving themselves and people like them?
00:05:41.920Once, somebody asked me if I knew the difference between a citizen and a civilian.
00:05:51.080A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility.
00:05:56.340But when we talk about what it means to be an American and the way we relate to immigration, we have a very interesting perspective, which is I am pro-immigrant and pro-immigration, but I am not pro-making immigration easier or pro-making becoming a citizen easier.
00:06:24.320That's the reason why we're a strong country.
00:06:27.380And we also need to keep in mind that not all immigrants are the same, right?
00:06:31.000In the U.S., we've been blessed with an unusually productive immigrant population when contrasted with Europe, and we can get to why that is.
00:06:37.720But the left, they say all immigrants good, right?
00:06:43.340But just as stupid as a perspective, all immigrants bad.
00:06:45.900This is a nuanced issue, and what we need to do is implement rules that disproportionately filter for immigrants who make this country stronger, while also working to ensure that we do not memetically sterilize these individuals once we come to our country and treat them like a disposable resource, which is one of the things we're doing right now, which is really terrible.
00:07:05.580Because of our low fertility rates, we are taking the best and the best from Africa.
00:07:08.520We're taking the best and the best from South America.
00:07:11.720And you look, the average immigrant fertility rate the last time I looked in the U.S. was 0.7, so certainly lower now.
00:07:16.860First-generation immigrant, which is about the same as the mainline population in the U.S., which is not good.
00:07:21.740You know, so we are exhausting this resource, both culturally, genetically, everything like that, all around the world.
00:07:28.300So it's something that we need to talk about.
00:07:29.640But America, everyone in America, or almost everyone in America, is a descendant from some group that underwent enormous hardship to be here.
00:07:40.700And I think that a lot of people just don't understand that because that's not what's really taught in the school system.
00:07:46.080They're like, well, yeah, I mean, obviously, like, the African slaves underwent enormous hardship, which they did to be here.
00:07:51.620But the whites, you know, they came under these indentured servitude contracts in big numbers.
00:07:56.980And these, you know, they worked their way out of these really quickly.
00:08:00.780And this is because they've never actually studied what happened in the indentured servitude contracts.
00:08:05.120So out of every 10 that came over, 7 of them died, not survived, 3 survived out of every 10 that came over on indentured servitude contracts.
00:08:20.400You don't want to pay them at the end.
00:08:21.540The whole thing is that, like, they work, and then you have to give them land.
00:08:25.020Well, yeah, so this is what a lot of people don't know is the way that these contracts worked, is if they lived to the end of their contract, you had to give them a portion of your land.
00:08:44.640The situation that these people were under was genuinely horrifying if you think about the incentives and why the death rate was so high in this community.
00:08:56.960And also keep in mind, many didn't come over with consent.
00:08:59.200This wasn't a choice that many indentured servants made.
00:10:18.200If you study the ships that came over with the Irish immigrants during the big immigration wave, there are reports of, like, ships opening, and most of the people had starved.
00:10:32.820Most of the people had starved or died of something else, and it was just a few living humans on this ship.
00:10:39.460Now, again, we should not underplay the horrors of slavery.
00:10:42.540When the slaves were coming over, if you look at the designs of the way these ships were held, where they were chained, and they had to live in their excrement and feces, and then when they would have problems, they would just dump slaves like ballast into the ocean.
00:11:04.960Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, famous African advocate.
00:11:08.520In one of his letters to the Christian Tribune, I want to say, he said that the – he went to Italy during this period, South Italy, and he said that while their situations were similar, the average Italian had it worse than the average.
00:11:22.060In his words – gosh, I remember reading this clear as day in a history textbook a long time ago, but I cannot find the original source anymore, even though I remember where the letter was sent and everything.
00:11:35.380If anyone can find what I'm thinking of here, let me know in the comments.
00:11:38.240But, like, it was terrible for most of these immigrant groups in a way that is so much worse than what we are taught about in the standard public education system today.
00:11:51.340If you read about the potato family – because people don't know how bad the potato family is.
00:11:56.000There is accounts of people walking into cities that were ghost towns, just, you know, starved people all over the streets, and then they notice that the corpse's eyes are tracking them.
00:12:07.220And then they realized it's not skeletons.
00:12:11.380It's literally, like, a city of zombified, almost humans being mummified alive.
00:12:17.520It is – they go into houses and there's children and families cuddled up together.
00:12:21.620It was, like, one member still having eyes tracking them.
00:12:24.680Like, it is – the level of horror is almost indescribable.
00:12:30.260If you look at what people had to go through, like, the Donner Party, if you look at what the early Mormons had to go through in these crusades out west as they migrated out to these areas, it was genuinely horrifying.
00:12:44.640And then what the Native Americans went through, genuinely horrifying.
00:12:46.860What America is made up of is people, lots of people, who underwent great trials to be here.
00:12:54.920Well, this is one thing that gets me so mad when people are like, is the American dream dead?
00:13:01.620Like, are you aware of what the American dream has been for the vast majority of American history?
00:13:06.260You wouldn't have immigrants if the American dream was dead.
00:13:08.520Well, the American dream involves a lot of struggle, a lot of sacrifice.
00:13:12.780I think people think American dream means that without working at all, I get a two-car garage and a big screen TV, and I don't really have to work.
00:13:39.480And you look at what immigrants want for their kids, and this is what they want, which makes it even more horrifying that these groups are being sterilized.
00:13:45.020Their children are being taken from them and then march through the centers of the power centers of our society in displays of Western culture or the urban monoculture's victory over their lesser native cultures or the cultures that they immigrated with.
00:14:00.640That, you know, resemble Roman triumphs over their enemies.
00:14:04.560To think of all of the things that these individuals sacrificed, and then they came here, and then all of that was taken from them.
00:14:11.380When people say, I came to a country for my kids, what they mean is I came to a country for my descendants.
00:14:17.280Not so their individual children could live these lives of opulent hedonism, doing whatever they want, whenever they want, completely spitting on their parents' sacrifice.
00:14:26.920It reminded me, you know, we had a reporter who was talking to us once, and she was an Indian immigrant who hadn't had kids.
00:14:33.180And she's like, well, I came here, and then I acclimatized, sorry, a daughter of Indian immigrants.
00:14:37.780You know, her parents sacrificed everything to give her this good life.
00:14:40.560And I'm saying, I don't want these other communities to be sterilized in the way that your family was sterilized.
00:14:45.340And she's like, but, you know, I have the right to do that, because that happened to me, basically, was her logic.
00:14:51.020I have the right to take these other people's children and sterilize them, because that happened to me.
00:14:55.860And I'm like, no, when these other communities came to America, historically, whether they're Irish, Italian, anything else, there were always people complaining.
00:15:01.400And you can see these great, you know, one of my favorite political cartoons is like a bunch of, you see it, there's a bunch of white sons of immigrants trying to keep out other white sons of immigrants out.
00:15:10.100Like this idea of keeping out immigrants is not tied to ethnicity.
00:15:15.080They were always sure that these immigrant groups were going to destroy the nature of our country.
00:15:20.340And yet it evolved the nature of our country.
00:15:22.960But being good is the cycle of intergenerational improvement.
00:15:28.120And if it is luxury that is causing your group or your community to become sterilized, then maybe you do deserve to become extinct.
00:15:35.460But we shouldn't be luring other people here without telling them or fully educating them on the risks that they are undertaking and coming here in terms of actually making life better for their children.
00:15:45.100And we talk about what immigrants add to our country.
00:15:46.960You know, you look at Silicon Valley, right?
00:15:49.080I think it's the majority or at least a huge chunk of the, you know, unicorn founders are first generation or second generation immigrants.
00:15:56.780That is what creates the economic dynamism of our country because as we get further and further from this period of trial, and it is that period of trial that makes us truly Americans, we become less American.
00:16:14.180And we can undergo this trial again, but we need to commit to it and we need to look into and study the immigrant populations that we are descended from and truly understand what was sacrificed to give us the lives that we have and try to live with that in mind every day.
00:17:03.560Europe gets, honestly, much worse immigrants than we get in the U.S. in terms of the economic productivity of these groups because there just are not the same trials to immigrate into Europe.
00:17:12.020As there are to immigrate into America.
00:18:01.500Mexico is incredibly hostile and racist and has much more anti-immigrant policies than American does towards other Latin American immigrants.
00:18:09.940These Arizona laws that everyone was freaking out about when they were, I can't remember, there's some laws in Arizona and everyone was like, this is horrible.
00:18:15.640You could just ask anyone for their ID cards, you know, whenever you want, you know, that's totalitarian.
00:18:41.980But I think progressives are unreasonable in how easy they want to make this for immigrants and the way that that causes our country to suffer.
00:18:50.900But I also think that as conservatives, when you meet immigrants in this country, you know, they are people who have gone through enormous hardship often to be here.
00:19:00.500And that shows their worthiness of being here.
00:19:04.080In many ways, you know, they're like, well, at least make them legal.
00:19:07.460Is the life of a legal immigrant harder than the life of an illegal immigrant?
00:19:11.000And in that respect, the life of an illegal immigrant is more American to me, more showing.
00:19:16.040But also, we've got to keep in mind that the immigrants we get from every country isn't the same, you know.
00:19:21.220I was talking about this in a previous video, almost like olive oil, you know, like the first squeeze of a country is typically going to be the best.
00:19:26.940You know, in countries where you get one squeeze and then it's done, you're typically going to get the very, very best early on, you know, like Cuba or something like that.
00:19:34.800Or, you know, Taiwan being made up of Chinese immigrants, right?
00:19:38.260Like they have this super advantage of being all of the economically successful people in the country or a huge chunk of them when the communist revolution was happening.
00:19:47.000And it's the same, you know, for us, when you see people from different countries, they are not the same.
00:19:53.260You know, it is not the same to get immigrant refugees that absolutely have to leave with their country.
00:19:57.360Like this is an area where I actually feel pretty strong.
00:20:00.880If they are leaving because they had to leave from their country, not because they choose to leave from their country, they are not leaving because of a cultural alignment with what makes America, America, which is this intergenerational improvement and desire to do better even when you don't have to leave your country.
00:20:17.580Well, and who really impresses me is like we have a business in Peru and we have employees in Peru and we've met a bunch of people there.
00:20:27.300The people that we know who are trying to immigrate to the United States are hands down not only like the most talented and ambitious, but also the most affluent.
00:20:43.060You know, to a certain extent because it's actually kind of hard and expensive and difficult to immigrate to the United States.
00:20:47.020This is really interesting, yeah, because we know a lot of people who live in Latin America and the best people we know in Latin America are the most affluent people.
00:20:52.300And we're like, oh my gosh, like, and I get really frustrated because I see how hard it is for them.
00:20:56.980I see they walk me through the steps they're going through.
00:20:58.960It is insane how hard it is to immigrate to the U.S.
00:21:01.780And when you're doing it legitimately, which is what they're doing.
00:21:59.960I thought like my impression was he was just entirely blocked by by the deep state.
00:22:04.520It wasn't even like I mean, yeah, like obviously the left was against it, but like it was just more of right needs to rally around this more.
00:22:11.460To understand that we like America matters, like as a unit, it matters.
00:22:38.600If you think we can all live under a Catholic governing body, then, you know, clearly you think that they can work under our governing system.
00:22:46.320And so I just it's it's it's sad to me.
00:22:50.160And I think the truth is and anyone who's a Republican strategist sees this is the the future for conservatives winning is to win the Hispanic vote.
00:23:26.280I think the left has been able to create a portrait of the right as being anti-Hispanic by appealing to these immigration issues.
00:23:33.880And so I think that we need to do better at signaling what we're really about was immigration and do better at being pro-immigration, but pro-targeted immigration instead of, you know, untargeted immigration.
00:23:49.300And I think that like lottery based immigration, I don't think that's a good idea.
00:23:53.740And so, yeah, these communities, I think if you just show, you know, that the conservative party understands that these individuals are conservative and values them and their communities.
00:24:03.340They are like are we have a lot of Hispanic friend groups.
00:24:07.140They are very, very ready to switch sides.
00:24:09.660And we already see it happening at record numbers.
00:24:13.180If you look at the statistics in terms of.
00:24:32.140And this is this is also true for Muslim immigrant groups.
00:24:35.820There are various types of Muslim immigrants like like Muslims are not a monolith.
00:24:39.820And if you look at the US, we often get like pretty good Muslim immigrants.
00:24:43.500But the the economically productive Muslim immigrant groups are one very conservative and they are a huge boon to our country.
00:24:50.560Whereas the the the uneconomically productive Muslim immigrants, the ones who are drains off the state in their existing country and plan to be drains off the state when they get to our country.
00:24:59.940These individuals are genuinely dangerous.
00:25:02.320And I understand the worry about these people as immigrant groups.
00:25:05.300But when you are able to make this distinction and assist in the migration of educated, economically productive Muslim immigrant populations, you make it a lot harder for the left to come at you and and bring in more, you know, less productive and more dangerous immigrant groups under the insinuation that you're being Islamophobic.
00:25:28.040And this is just like very obvious to me, you know, you look at like, for example, America, like you want to talk about like one of the most American dispositionally immigrant groups.
00:25:40.020I know it's Persians like people are like, what are Persians personality wise?
00:26:48.920That's my point is that that these things like like the Persians are a Muslim immigrant group, but they are not antithetical to Americanism.
00:26:56.440They are not antithetical to our way of life.
00:26:58.440And when we say we don't like Muslim immigrants, we need to be a bit more specific there because a lot of these Muslim groups, you know, the American Farsi population is fantastic and very economically productive and very dispositionally American.
00:27:13.420Yeah, that's I think that is the really like underrated thing is is a lot of the news is look at these like Muslim populations in Europe.
00:27:23.980No, no, these are these are just like they are people coming from Muslim majority countries.
00:27:28.080But then like look at people who are coming from Muslim majority countries here.
00:27:37.360Like you can't just I mean, it's like, yeah, it's not like, you know, we have criminals coming from, you know, majority Catholic countries, too.
00:27:49.880Which we always have every majority like all those Catholics.
00:27:52.760You got to watch out for the Catholic.
00:27:56.420It's just like you're getting to word this a bit differently with our current largely unfiltered immigration system.
00:28:02.920There are a lot of Hispanic immigrants that come into our country and are a drain on our national resources and on our welfare system.
00:28:11.320Those immigrants are majority Catholic.
00:28:14.900Yet I don't go out there and I think very few people would go out there and say that means Catholics are bad broadly as an immigrant group in the same way that if Europe has a problem with bad Muslim immigrants, it is just as fallacious to say Muslims are broadly bad as an immigrant group.
00:28:32.000And note here that I am specifically speaking about Hispanic immigrants that then go disproportionately onto welfare, which is not all Hispanic immigrant groups in the U.S.
00:28:42.160And again, this is the point that we're making.
00:28:44.060It's you have to better differentiate between immigrant groups instead of grouping them in these giant lumps.
00:28:50.100There are going to be economically productive pockets of almost any immigrant population.
00:28:55.040And that's what we want coming into our country.
00:28:57.160I mean, keep in mind, every majority Catholic immigrant population that has ever come to America has come with gangs, the Irish, the mob, the Italians, the mafia, you know, the Hispanics, you get the R15 or whatever it's called.
00:29:09.820Like, yeah, OK, but this country is better for our Italian and Irish immigrant population.
00:29:17.540And we will be better for just because they come with organized crime is if we said we need to keep them out because of that, then we would have kept out the Italians and the Irish because they also came with organized crime.
00:29:30.620And it's just something that Catholic immigrant populations do.
00:29:35.380Yeah. Well, and also, like the other thing is in in Sweden, there is a huge, huge, huge problem with crime that came with refugee immigrant populations in other nations that also received refugee immigrant populations.
00:29:47.400They're not seeing the same amount of just like literal dead zones in cities that, you know, are like huge, huge crime problems because they crack down on it.
00:29:56.000So a lot of this also comes down to like, OK, what are you doing in your cities and your states to crack down on behavior that you don't find to be acceptable?
00:30:04.000And this is really true. And this is where being pro-immigrant does not mean anti-profiling.
00:30:08.540Yeah. Right. Yeah. So if you are in the age of the Irish mob or the Italian mafia and somebody is coming up talking like an Italian mob guy, like and you're like, OK, you Italian immigrant, we're going to be extra harsh on you.
00:30:22.520Yes. Yes. If someone's doing something not Italian.
00:30:26.660Yeah. Like, don't let them do it. But also, like, don't stop entire groups of people because like five percent of them do a thing that's not cool.
00:30:35.340Well, a lot of these countries, they have become insane in the way that they've handled this and that they don't even let you say this is a problem within our Muslim immigrant population.
00:30:46.100And therefore, we need to disproportionately police our Muslim immigrant population.
00:30:50.120When America had problems with our Irish immigrant population and when we had problems with our Italian immigrant population, America did need to disproportionately police those populations.
00:30:58.800Like, duh. And we did. And there weren't people like saying, oh, this is a terrible thing that you're disproportionately policing the new immigrant populations.
00:31:05.200Where crime is concentrated of this specific type. But again, you know, we do need to keep in mind that, again, not all immigrant populations are equal.
00:31:11.860And the very best way to do this is to create challenges.
00:31:14.660Like make it hard for low immigrant populations to come to the country, but make sure that they can always get in some way if they undergo enough sacrifices.
00:31:21.360And then for high economic productivity in immigrant populations, make it easy.
00:31:26.080That's the way I generally approach immigration.
00:31:33.780And I hope that we're able to convince people.
00:31:36.020Like, I think that it's inevitable that the conservatives switch on this because it is so obvious to me and everyone who's a Republican strategist that I talk to that the Hispanic vote is going to be a defining vote of the conservative movement moving forwards.
00:31:48.740And that while this vote is skeptical of immigration, they are not as anti, you know, as some of these other individuals.
00:31:55.380And some of the stuff that's been happening is wrong and we need to find ways to improve the way that we are engaging with immigrants and treating immigrants.
00:32:17.620I think even if they're a legal immigrant, if a first-generation legal immigrant is ever going on welfare, they should be immediately expelled from the country.
00:32:24.020Well, I mean, we hold similar stances for anyone who is a drain on the nation.