This is such an interesting scissor moment. Is it bad that Scott Wiener is being verbally and physically assaulted for participating in an ostensibly non-political event?
Oh yeah. Yes it is. That's very bad.
But this has been happening to the people Scott hates for close to a decade and Scott has encouraged it. The best option would be to stop it completely. But we all know that if we stop it for Scott, he will simply tell everyone to do it to his political enemies.
Oh well. It sucks that we eroded the norms that are necessary for a functional society. Have fun with that, Scott! I hope no one treats you as badly as you have encouraged people to treat your political enemies.
It means quite straightforwardly that natives have less political power, because their votes are a smaller share of the overall electorate.
Newcomers do not merely “coexist” alongside you. They form political coalitions. They vote.
Even physical space in a city is to some extent zero sum. The old burger joint is either a burger place or it’s a halal shop. It can’t be both at the same time. And if the burger shop becomes a halal shop, then it’s not coexisting with the burger shop.
A city will have a character. It will look like something. The buildings will look like something. The buildings will contain various kinds of activities and if they contain those specific activities, then they don’t contain other activities.
Norms, too, compete. There will be rules around queuing, as in England. And as the English are finding out, people either queue or they don’t. You can’t have a situation where the people who queue coexist alongside the people who don’t.
What you see in our discourse is that wherever White norms come into conflict with immigrant or minority norms, the elite consensus is that the White norms are stodgy and oppressive and should just simply give away to the black and brown norms, which are superior.
These are all random examples, but this plays out in every detail. Immigration affects the most significant features of a culture’s ethos, its spirit, all the way down to its most trivial aesthetics.
If you change the people in a society, then you change the society. And you don’t just change it in random ways. You make it more like the people you’re bringing in and less like the people who are already there, proportionally.
Later in the thread, Cathy pivots to the empty truism that, well, you know, cultures change over time. What are you going to do? You can’t stop it.
But this is the position that because cultures sometimes change in ways that are unpredictable and difficult to control, we should not be allowed to prevent ours from changing in predictable ways that are really quite easy to control.
This is like saying, well, sometimes marriages drift apart naturally, honey, so I don’t really see why I shouldn’t be allowed to move my girlfriend into the house.
Here is what should happen: the developers of these unwanted condos lower the price to what people are willing to pay.
The purchasers now have an affordable home, or a place they rent for cheap.
The developers lose money, sending the market signal that you shouldn't build that type of housing unless you can do it much cheaper.
The developers lose money. They might even go bankrupt. That sucks, but that is business.
Future developments are more suited to what people want and are willing to pay.
The taxpayer doesn't pay for any of it.
This is what the market is good at, and the government absolutely sucks at. Let the market do its job.
@FEAR_Calex@Thorin He had a .71 for the major. He beat furia. I know you're not gonna respond but I just want to to reflect on how wrong you are about things.
@ReesesAlterEgo@sharyns915 And no one dies if no one is stabbed. Why is this a hill worth dying on karmelos actions were blatantly unjustified and it makes you look extremely stupid defending it