Diffamation néo-antifasciste sur Cyberpresse

Une très bonne analyse de Carl Bergeron que j’ai utilisé mois-même. Rien de neuf; c’est un signe typique de la « légitimité négative » tirée de reduction ad hitlerum dont se sert la gauche bien-pensante, à savoir la gauche caviar.

Je suis quelque peu troublé, mais peu surpris je dois l’avouer, par les commentaires haineux qui depuis quelques instants défilent sur le blogue de Patrick Lagacé. Une lectrice, apparemment obsédée par mon cas, m’accuse d’être la réincarnation de la Bête immonde ; selon cette idéologue passionnée, je combinerais en effet dans ma personne la menace du nazisme allemand et celui d’Adrien Arcand. Tous les lecteurs de L’Intelligence conséquente le savent bien : les 40 000 mots de ce site argumenté et intellectuel sont tous imprégnés d’une haine nazie, c’est l’évidence. L’antisémitisme s’étale à chaque page…

Par un effet de contamination typique de la haine médiatique, les autres commentateurs renchérissent en me rattachant aux Bérêts Blancs (hein?), une frange militante de l’Église catholique que j’ignorais complètement jusqu’à ce jour.

Ce délire est d’autant plus prodigieux et révélateur qu’il ne semble pas être désapprouvé par les autorités de Cyberpresse.
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America, still guilty

America, still guilty

How stupid can Americans—particularly liberal Christian Americans—be? Plenty stupid. Alan Wall at vdare highlights the stupidity of Arkansas Republican governor Mike Huckabee, who has been parading the notion that Hispanic immigration offers America a “Second Chance” to make up for its past bad treatment of blacks.

Of course, the idea that the need to compensate for historic discrimination against blacks should govern our relations with other nonwhite groups is not new. As I wrote in The Path to National Suicide, the 1965 Immigration Reform Act was a “civil rights bill applied to the world at large.” David Frum in a letter to me in the mid 1990s echoed the attitude of the 1965 reformers, saying that America’s past history of racial discrimination required us to keep our borders open to non-Westerners. But it is nevertheless incredible that after decades in which conservatives have seen the damage done to our society by white racial guilt, a supposedly conservative politician wants to make white racial guilt an explicit organizing principle of our society.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at 09:31 AM

Brazilianization of America [Liberals Rejoice]

Social integration in the U.S., including cohabiting and marriage, is surging
By Ely Portillo and Frank Greve
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Despite its battles over immigration, affirmative action, racial profiling and other issues, America is finally becoming a melting pot.

A powerful interracial tide has transformed friendships, dates, cohabitations, marriages and adoptions in just one generation. If the wave continues to grow, it could sweep away racial stereotypes and categorizations, as well as the rationale behind affirmative action and other broad minority protections. It remains to be seen, however, whether higher levels of social integration, especially among Asians, are benefiting blacks, the least integrated of U.S. minorities. Data from the 2010 census will make that a lot clearer.

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The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium

An interesting book: The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium (Hardcover) by Paul Edward Gottfried.

The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium by Paul Gottfried is an account of the rise of a new European politically correct left from the ashes of Marxism. Unlike the Marxism of the past, which focused primarily on history as the culmination of a dialectical process and emphasized the struggle of the working class proletariat against the capitalist class bourgeoisie, modern day politically correct leftism has turned towards the cultural elite as the dynamo for revolution. Indeed, as Gottfried notes, the original Marxists did not advocate “alternative lifestyles”, feminism, homosexual liberation, or rail against the family as oppressive in the same manner as their modern day leftist usurpers do. Gottfried argues that many of these ideas are not fundamentally European in nature but have been exported from America where they originated. This is contrary to the thesis advanced by others such as Alan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind that political correctness represents a Germanification of American universities. Against such Germanophobic tendencies of both the post-Marxist left and the neoconservative right, Gottfried maintains that political correctness is an import to Europe and began at the time of the Allied defeat of the Axis powers. In particular, Gottfried traces the rise of the Frankfurt School to the development of the therapeutic state, in which all dissenters are labeled as “potential fascists” and assigned to re-education. Echoing conservative critic Patrick Buchanan, whose book The Decline of the West showed the perils of both unrestricted immigration and cultural Marxism, Gottfried shows how individuals such as Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer constructed an “authoritarian personality” type as an explicit rejection of traditional bourgeois Christian values. Others such as Herbert Marcuse and Eric Fromm contributed similar studies rejecting those deemed “regressive” or “insufficiently progressive” as potential fascists. Much of this research was motivated primarily by Jewish intellectuals under the auspices of the American Jewish Committee. Gottfried contrasts this modern cultural Marxism with the more orthodox materialist Marxism in which the working class dynamo is considered as the prime historical motivation. In particular, individuals such as Louis Althusser, although equally motivated by the philosophy of Spinoza, sought a return to this form of Marxist materialism. Gottfried argues that while the post-Marxist left rails against American imperialism and actively supports the Palestinians in the Middle East, that they are fundamentally in favor of an American hegemony provided that it is sufficiently tolerant. In particular, for many on both the left and the right, American democracy is seen as the primary motivating good to be exported to the entire world. Such a belief in American power had its origin in the Allied defeat of the Germans following World War II. In fact, following the Second World War, Germans were assigned to de-nazification camps. Many of those who had been conservative monarchists or nationalists yet opponents of the Nazis were regarded as insufficiently democratic and therefore consigned to the outer darkness of being “potential fascists”. This was particularly ironic notes Gottfried because many of those who did the consigning were supporters of a far worse totalitarian regime which had an even greater death toll in the East or were even former fascists themselves. In addition, those who pointed out the many horrors of Allied occupation and the atrocities committed by the Allies during the war, such as the bombing of Dresden or the rape of German women by Soviet soldiers, were equally regarded as pro-fascist. Indeed, in the modern day political debate, any party that is deemed “reactionary” or “fascist” is instantly stifled by the far left. In Europe, many rightist parties have been suppressed or banned because of supposed sympathy for the fascists. While Gottfried admits that many of these parties may have unsavory elements within them, they do represent a part of the political process that involves the questioning of accepted wisdom and the desire to see a revived nationalism. It is disturbing to note the lust of the far left for censorship, particularly as it applies to Europe. However, Gottfried makes the point that America is equally slipping towards the left despite the apparent tendency to turn right following the so-called Reagan revolution. Indeed, Gottfried argues that the “Reagan revolution” was nothing of the sort and that Americans continue to drift in a sea of immorality and nihilism propped up by the far left. Gottfried also considers Italian communists such as Antonio Gramsci, who may have first originated the idea of the culture clash. In addition, Gottfried discusses the exploits of Jurgen Habermas, a profoundly anti-German German communist sympathizer, who has argued for banning other historians including Ernst Nolte. Indeed, those who bring up the atrocities of the communists under Stalin and others are regarded as being potential fascist sympathizers by much of the far left. This was particularly the case regarding the recent publication of the book The Black Book of Communism which showed the terrors inflicted upon the world by this horrendous ideology. Gottfried considers it useful to regard the modern day post-Marxist left as a form of political religion, echoing the categories of conservative philosopher Eric Voegelin. Voegelin believed that many political philosophies constituted resuscitations of earlier Christian Gnostic heresies. Oddly, perhaps the last hope of the cultural conservatives in the coming era is turning towards the working class as a source for traditional values. As others such as Christopher Lasch have shown, the working class may frequently support socialist economics, however they are fundamentally culturally conservative. This may offer a useful opportunity for the right in regaining ground stolen from it by the pernicious influence of a post-Marxist left guiding a managerial therapeutic state actively persecuting all dissenters.

Europeans: Wimps, Cowards, and Peecee Fanatics

Bedlam Europe
By Gerald Vouga

In the 1970s Portugal’s authoritarian regime succumbed to a peaceful coup by discontented army officers. Most of the country rejoiced but enthusiasm did not last long: within a few months the country was like a mental hospital under self-management. Portugal’s long tradition of music hall comedy thrived, and counter-revolutionaries with theatrical flair made the most of the loony political situation, drawing huge audiences.

Current developments in Europe look similar. All that’s missing is a suitable continental stage on which to burlesque the hilarious ongoing events—but anyway here are some typical scenes.

The United Kingdom
Like the rest of Europe Britain is a strange place nowadays. Earlier this year a lad of eleven was brought before a UK court charged with committing a hate crime. He had been caught at the age of ten in his school playground insulting a fellow-pupil as a “dirty Paki”. The boy was then tracked by the police for a year, his playground wickedness duly registered, and criminal proceedings initiated. His eventual defence was that his victim had started it all by calling him “white trash”.

In an unusual display of common sense, the judge dismissed the case and denounced the Crown Prosecution Service and the police for devoting their attentions to childish misdemeanours instead of attending to car-theft, burglary and assault. In his day, said the judge, the matter would have been dealt with by a timely clout. The judge’s decision was then indignantly condemned by teachers’ unions and has gone to appeal.

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Dutch court upholds pedophile party

Europe is a disgusting and filthy cesspool. I can’t blame Muslims for thinking that the West is a decadent and corrupting influence. Had the evil Nazis won the war, the Netherlands would now have a place of honor in a Germanic empire. Moreover, there would be no colored immigration, no Islam in the heart of Northern Europe, no “red light” districts with prostitutes standing in windows like pieces of meat, no open drug trade and use, and certainly no “pro-pedophile” political parties. But they didn’t. And the White man is about to exit history.

Dutch court upholds pedophile party
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, July 17 (UPI) — A bid to force the banning of a pro-pedophile political party in the Netherlands has been struck down by a court at The Hague.

The PNVD party was formed this year by three admitted pedophiles, and was immediately challenged by the Soelaas foundation, which investigates cases of pedophilia in the country, Expatica and the ANP news agency reported.

Soelaas argued a legal ban was needed to protect children from the group, but Judge H.F. Hofhuis ruled that the PNVD has the same right to exist as any other political party.

“They (Soelaas) only want to give expression to their moral concerns. That is far from being sufficient to outlaw a party,” Hofhuis ruled.

The PNVD group advocates lowering the age of consent from 16 to 12 [why stop at 12? Why not 10 or 6? ], and also seeks to allow teenagers older than 16 to act in pornographic movies, as long as the participation is voluntary.

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Study: Boys trail girls in literacy scores

Study: Boys trail girls in literacy scores
Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: (907) 474-7902
07/12/06

A new study by University of Alaska Fairbanks Professor Judith Kleinfeld indicates that boys, regardless of their socioeconomic status, lag behind their female peers in language arts.

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Want To End the ‘Boy Crisis’? Trying having something masculine in school

Want To End the ‘Boy Crisis’?
by Fred Reed

One hears often now that boys flounder in school, drop out, generally perform less well academically than girls, and don’t go to college. A certain amount of this commentary comes from women who seem quietly to enjoy the spectacle. Given that women control the schools, this might suggest that, if they are not actually causing the problem, neither are they in a hurry to do anything about it. Other people worry that the comparative superabundance of female college graduates will have no one to marry: While men will marry down, women won’t. Regarding all of which:

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Heidi “Nigger-Whore” Scum

I’m somewhat curious if there was any one in her immediate entourage (i.e., parents, friends, business associates, etc.) who tried to dissuade this filthy miscegenate pig from marrying that hideous, pockmarked man-ape hybrid “Seal”…where were her siblings and parents in all this? How the German women have fallen to new depths! I POINT MY FINGER AT THE JEWNITED STATES AND BRITAIN, AT THE JUDEO-ANGLO REFUSE, AND SAY: “IT IS YOU WHO DID THIS! YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE! YOU WANTED GERMANY’S UTTER DESTRUCTION AND WHAT YOU COULD NOT CARRY OUR THROUGHT MASSIVE, GENOCIDAL TERROR BOMBINGS, YOU ACCOMPLISHED BY USING YOUR PROXY, THE BRD, TO GENETICALLY DESTROY THE GERMAN PEOPLE. YOU DID THIS TO US.”

However, I am reminded of a sentiment expressed almost a hundred years ago and which I make mine today:

‘I implore you to cherish hatred — a profound, abiding hatred for those animals who have outraged the German people. But the day will come when we will drive them from our Germany. Prepare for that day. Arm for that day. Work for that day.’

- Capt. Hermann Goering
speech to officers, December 1918

Heidi, Seal & Leni
Heidi, Seal and especially Leni, are proud to tell you that we recently found out that we are expecting our second child. There is nothing that gives us greater happiness than the realization of our dream. Thanks to all of you that have been sending us happy thoughts. Love, the Samuel Family.

You can write Heidi and tell her what you think of her efforts to extinguish the white race here.

The corruption of science by peecee politics (1)

I’m currently reading Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature and in it he reports on how politics can corrupt science. My first example, taken from his book, concerns E.O. Wilson (at 108-109). In 1975 Wilson published a monograph entitled Sociobiology, which “synthesized a vast literature on animal behavior using new ideas on natural selection from George Williams, William Hamiliton, John Maynard Smith, and Robert Trivers. It reviewed principles on the evolution of communication, altruism, aggression, sex, and parenting, and applied them to the major taxa of social animals such as insects, fishes, and birds. The twenty-seventh chapter did the same for Homo sapiens, treating our species like another branch of the animal kingdom. It included a review of the literature on universals and variations among societies, a discussion of language and its effects on culture, and the hypothesis that some universals (including the moral sense) may come from a human nature shaped by natural selection. Wilson expressed the hope that this idea might connect biology to the social sciences and philosophy, a forerunner of the argument in his later book Consilence.

The first attack on Sociobiology zeroed in on its main heresy. In a book length critique, the [Jewish, surprise!] anthropologist Marshall Sahlins defined ‘vulgar sociobiology’ as the challenge to Durkheim’s and Kroeber’s doctrine of the superorganism: the belief that culture and society lived in a separate realm from individual people and their thoughts and feelings. ‘Vulgar socio-biology,’ Sahlins wrote, ‘consists in the explication of human social behavior as the expression of the needs and drives of the human organism, such propensities having been constructed in human nature by biological evolution.’ Acknowledging fear of an incursion into his academic turf, he added, ‘The central intellectual problem does come down to the autonomy of culture and of the study of culture. Sociobiology challenges the integrity of culture as the thing-in-itself, as the distinctive and symbolic human creation.’

Sahlins’s book was called The Use and Abuse of Biology. An example of the alleged abuse was the idea that Hamilton’s theory of inclusive fitness could help explain the importance of family ties in human life. Hamilton had shown how a tendency to make sacrifices for relatives could have evolved. Relatives share genes, so any gene that nudges an organism to help a relative would be indirectly helping a copy of itself. The gene will proliferate if the cost incurred by the favor is less than the benefit conferred to the relative, discounted by the degree of relatedness (one-half for a full sibling or offspring, one-eighth for a first cousin, and so on). That can’t be true, Sahlins wrote, because people in most cultures don’t have words for fractions. This leaves them unable to figure out the coefficients of relatedness that would tell them which relatives to favor and by how much. His objection is a textbook confusion of a proximate cause with an ultimate cause. It is like saying that people can’t possibly see in depth, because most cultures haven’t worked out the trigonometry that underlies stereoscopic vision.”

See also Matt Nuenke’s review of The Blank Slate here:
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker. This is probably the best written book on evolutionary psychology yet. Pinker lays it all out, and does so in a thorough and entertaining way. My critique however takes issue with parts of the book that deny racial differences in intelligence and behavioral traits, as well as eugenics, morality, etc. (Revised 12/2005–it seems Pinker has changed his mind or has become more honest.)

At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust

July 9, 2006
The New Gender Divide
At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust
By TAMAR LEWIN
Nearing graduation, Rick Kohn is not putting much energy into his final courses.

“I take the path of least resistance,” said Mr. Kohn, who works 25 hours a week to put himself through the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. “This summer, I looked for the four easiest courses I could take that would let me graduate in August.”

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Why are 30% of German women choosing to go childless? Free will, baby

Sex is essential, kids aren’t
Why are 30% of German women choosing to go childless? Free will, baby.
By David P. Barash, DAVID P.
BARASH is a professor of psychology at the University of Washington.
May 10, 2006

THE GERMAN PUBLIC was recently shocked to learn that 30% of “their”
women are childless — the highest proportion of any country in the
world. And this is not a result of infertility; it’s intentional childlessness.

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Will George Be Slayed As England’s Patron Saint? Church of England worries that “warlike” image may offend Muslims

Christianity has become the enemy of all healthy, race-conscious Whites.

Steve Doughty, Daily Mail, July 2, 2006

His dragon-slaying heroics have kept his legend alive through the centuries.

But the Church of England is considering rejecting England’s patron saint St George on the grounds that his image is too warlike and may offend Muslims.

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African “refugees” terrorize a little Swiss village

Violent African “refugees” terrorizing Swiss villagers.

Swiss Wars, Episode 3: Attack Of The Blacks
News/Comment; Posted on: 2006-07-03 18:25:51

Jews step up pressure to abolish asylum controls as Africans terrorize village

BEX, Switzerland - Local citizens are seething about an African invasion of this picturesque town near Lake Geneva.

The peaceful, orderly life of Bex’s 4,500 residents has been disturbed by an unwelcome new presence. A large building in the town now serves as a residence for 130 African pseudo-asylum-seekers.

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Latvia Angers EU over “Homophobia”

The E.U. is an evil, immoral, and decadent monstrosity, as well as a dictatorship of petty social engineers, faceless bureaucrats, and political hacks. It’s appalling how these moral degenerates try to push the new E.U. nations around. Millions of immigrants are invading the continent, the social welfare system is falling apart, unemployment is skyrocketing, racial minorities (tomorrow’s majorities) are setting major European cities on fire, terrorising the indigenous population and gang-raping European females… and these weak, old, senile idiots have nothing else to do but to lecture Latvia et al. on their stance regarding homophobia and all other forms of discrimination. How I despise today’s European political class.

Latvia Angers EU over “Homophobia”
From the desk of Filip van Laenen on Sun, 2006-06-25 18:13

Last Thursday the Saeima, the Parliament of Latvia, upset the European Union by refusing to accept a labour bill that would make it a criminal offense for a private person or company to refuse to employ a gay person. The Saeima only approved the non-discrimination clauses, which Brussels had told the country to accept, after removing discrimination on the basis of “sexual preference” from the discriminations listed in the bill. The Latvian parliamentarians insisted on the right of private employers to turn down people whose moral behaviour they reject.

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Rapist who got Viagra claims ‘racism’

ONCE UPON A TIME HE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN SOMETHING ELSE

Rapist who got Viagra claims ‘racism’

‘Top Gun’ rapist gets 50
Taxpayers bought sex fiend Viagra, court is told

BY BARBARA ROSS & BILL HUTCHINSON
New York Daily News Wednesday, 28 June 2006

NEW YORK — In a bizarre plea for mercy, an attorney for the thug who raped
“Top Gun” actress Kelly McGillis more than two decades ago revealed yesterday
that taxpayers paid for the sex fiend’s Viagra last year.

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The EU Parliament Wants the Destruction of White People

Culture wars at the EU parliament

The European Parliament has passed a resolution, which calls for EU member states to take a more active stance in the fight against homophobia, racism and anti-Semitism. Polish politicians are outraged.

Report by Bogdan Zaryn

Last year Warsaw came under fire from gay activist groups world wide for banning an Equality Parade. This year the parade went on without a hitch but Poland’s gay community still feels persecuted.

The European Parliament has passed a resolution calling for several EU member states including Poland to take a more active approach in the fight against anti-Semitism and homophobia.

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Episcopal Church Condemns Bible as anti-Semitic

This is the same “Church” that not long ago approved a self-declared sodomite as bishop here. I don’t know how any self-respecting Christian can remain a member of that farcical enterprise. Its leaders and delegates obviously don’t believe that the Bible (particularly the New Testament) is “the inspired Word of God.” If most believe, as it seems likely, that the Bible is “a document produced in a certain time with limitations, and because of that it may not be relevant for all cultures at all times” then what makes the Bible and its message unique? What’s the difference between the Bible and other spiritual literature like the Upanishads or the Eddas, for example? A Christian who accepts the above premise is no longer a Christian in any genuine sense but a heretic. They should just shut down the whole thing and move on. Whatever the Episcopal Church is (is it social club? A charitable organization? A place for vaguely spiritual gay men to hang out? What?), it’s certainly not a Christian Church.

COLUMBUS, OH: Episcopal Convention Condemns Bible as ‘Anti-Jewish’

By Hans Zeiger
VirtueOnline Correspondent
www.virtueonline.org

COLUMBUS, OHIO (6/15/06)-The 75th General Convention of the Episcopal Church today passed a resolution essentially condemning the Bible as an “anti-Jewish” document. Not only does the resolution aim to address perceptions of anti-Jewish prejudice in the Bible and Episcopal liturgy, but it suggests that such prejudice is actually “expressed in…Christian Scriptures and liturgical texts.”
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Diversity Is Strength. It’s Also The Worst Sort Of Welfare State

Diversity Is Strength. It’s Also The Worst Sort Of Welfare State
By Steve Sailer

Intellectuals as politically contrasting as David Goodhart, editor of the fine British centre-left journal Prospect, and Frank Salter, the perceptive rightist political scientist, have argued that immigration undermines the welfare state by sapping solidarity among fellow citizens.

It’s not a coincidence that social insurance programs began in homogenous Bismarckian Germany. Nor is it an accident that today they are perhaps most overwhelmingly popular in Finland, the only Western European country with hardly any immigrants.

Goodhart’s cover story in the June 2006 issue of Prospect, “Put Out More Flags: A Case for Progressive Nationalism”, is a follow-up to his much-discussed 2004 essay “Too Diverse?” He warned the British Labour Party that mass immigration threatens white working class support for the welfare state by importing too many freeloaders. Goodhart was expressing, for different reasons, the same insight that Milton Friedman offered in 1999: “You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.”

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Jews and Catholics work together to destroy White America

Religious breakdown of the vote on S.2611

VFR reader James R. has put together some fascinating information on how senators voted for the immigration bill by religious affilliation. He writes:

I did a search to find out if Larry Craig is a Mormon, as southern Idaho is essentially an extension of open borders-friendly Mormon Utah. As I learned at Wikipedia, he’s not. Harry Reid is a Mormon, and Senate Mormons voted 3-2 in favor of the bill. However, by cross referencing the Wikipedia list of senators by religious affiliation with the Senate vote tally you posted at VFR, I found that Catholics voted 19-4 yes, with Bunning, Santorum, Sununu and Vitter voting no (Salazar did not vote). Jews voted 11-0 yes. The combined Catholic-Jewish vote was 30-4 in favor. Subtracting those 30 yes votes and 4 no votes from the 62-36 vote of the entire Senate leaves the remaining Senators voting 32-32.
Here is a list of just the Catholics and Jews:

Catholics—Yes (19)

Biden
Brownback
Cantwell
Collins
DeWine
Dodd
Domenici
Durbin
Harkin
Kennedy
Kerry
Landrieu
Leahy
Martinez
Mikulski
Murkowski
Murray
Reed
Voinovich

Catholics—No (4)

Bunning
Santorum
Sununu
Vitter

(Ken Salazar did not vote. Why not? It would have been yes)

Jews—All yes (11)

Boxer
Coleman
Feingold
Feinstein
Kohl
Lautenberg
Levin
Lieberman
Schumer
Specter
Wyden

To sum up James’s findings, it was the Catholic and Jewish contingents that made the vote lopsided in favor of this bill. At the same time, the Protestants (and the Mormons—I had no idea there were five Mormons in the U.S. Senate) are not off the hook either, as half of them voted for S.2611 as well. Still, the message is striking. Senate Jews (unanimously) and Senate Catholics (overwhelmingly) are pro-open borders and turn the Senate from what would otherwise be an evenly divided body into a heavily open-borders body.

All of which leads to the question: Can immigration restrictionists make any headway against the open-borders ideology without addressing the ethno-religious components of the support for that ideology? For example, let’s say we find ourselves, as I found myself recently, in a meeting where the immigration of Muslims or Mexicans is being discussed, and it turns out that the people at the table who vociferously object to any immigration restrictions, who indeed say that the very idea of excluding any group is immoral and illiberal, are all Catholics and Jews. Could one civilly point this fact out? Could one say that the Catholics and Jews in that discussion are pro-open borders because they think they are religiously obligated to support open borders, or because they still identify too much with their families’ immigration background, or because Catholics want to bring in lots of Catholic Hispanics? Could one legitimately say that this shows that they are thinking too much in terms of their own group and not of the well-being of the society as whole?

I think the answer is yes. If Catholics and Jews are resting on their Catholicism or Jewishness to support policies ruinous to our society, while using highly emotional and moralistic arguments to silence disagreement, then that ought to be discussed.

This is not a call for ad hominem or bigoted arguments. If an entire group is lopsidedly on one side of an issue, then clearly the opinions of the individual members of that group are not determined solely by a rational concern for the common good leading to logical conclusions individually arrived at (since, if they were so arrived at, the distribution of opinions in that group would be similar to that of the general population); they are determined by something about the group itself. So the group’s history, beliefs, and motives become a legitimate part of the debate. If we can publicly discuss why liberals as a group or agribusiness interests as a group are in favor of open borders, we should be able to discuss why Catholics as a group or Jews as a group are in favor of open borders.

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