To Fight Wokeness, the GOP Should Embrace Immigrant Voters
A lot depends on the immigrants concerned but East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans) tend strongly to be culturally conservative and good citizens generally -- low crime rate etc. The GOP should reach out to them
The rise of ultra-progressive ideologies and the decline in patriotic sentiment are two broad cultural trends that worry American conservatives. Some may be tempted to imagine that these two phenomena are connected to immigration and the resulting ethnic and racial diversity—especially since opposition to immigration is common among conservatives for security, economic, and cultural reasons. Contrary to conservative worries, however, immigration and diversity can actually reduce the impact of wokeness while boosting American patriotism.
It is true that most immigrant families require two or three generations to achieve total or near-total cultural assimilation into American life. But it is during this transition period that immigrants and their children are most likely to hold conservative values. Ultra-progressive beliefs such as Critical Race Theory and esoteric concepts of gender are not immigrant imports, but rather reflect the beliefs (or professed beliefs) of long-settled US-born natives.
A long running General Social Survey (GSS) question about race, going back to 1977, has asked: “On average, blacks have worse jobs, income, and housing than white people. Do you think these differences are because most blacks just don’t have the motivation or willpower to pull themselves out of poverty?” A progressive person will obviously be inclined to answer “no,” while a (very) non-woke person will answer “yes.” Overall, 35 percent of respondents said no in 1977, a figure that almost doubled to 63 percent in 2018. (See Figure 1, below.)
This general trend shouldn’t come as a surprise. But when you break down the data, surprises do emerge. Only 34 percent of native-born Americans gave the progressive response in 1977, a number that soared to 65 percent in 2018. For immigrants, however, the share delivering the progressive response—47 percent—was the same in 2018 as it was in 1977 (though it fluctuated during the interim).
When it comes to avant-garde ideas about identity, non-white immigrants tend to be less woke than the progressive (and largely white) Americans who often purport to speak or act on behalf of non-whites. At a Loudoun County, VA school board meeting in June 2021, for instance, the fiercest critic of the (mostly native-born Americans) who’d championed the decision to teach Critical Race Theory was Xi Van Fleet, a Chinese immigrant who fled to the United States after living through Mao’s Cultural Revolution. “I’ve been very alarmed by what's going on in our schools,” she said. “You are now teaching, training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history.” A school-board recall election targeting San Francisco’s wokest board members, similarly, was co-led up by Siva Raj, an immigrant from India awaiting permanent residency.
Of course, there are outliers on both sides. Hari Kondabolu, a second-generation US-born child of Indian immigrants, produced a documentary that resulted in the cancellation of the fictional Indian-American character Apu in The Simpsons. On the other wing is Vivek Ramaswamy, the Ohio-born son of Indian immigrants. The title of his book, Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam, tells you all you need to know about his views.
The divide between native-born progressives and immigrants is expressed in language usage. According to Pew Research, only 16 percent of immigrant Latinos have even heard of the now-fashionable (but entirely unnecessary, and widely mocked) term “Latinx” as a substitute for Latino or Hispanic; and only two percent of them use it—a percentage smaller than the 2.9 percent margin of error in the Pew survey. (Of native-born Latinos, 32 percent have heard of the term Latinx and four percent use it.)
https://quillette.com/2022/02/11/to-fight-wokeness-the-gop-should-embrace-immigrant-voters/
****************************************************Scientists at leading US, UK universities slam Australia’s expulsion of Novak Djokovic, urge leader to dump mandates
Scientists at leading American and British universities have slammed Australia’s expulsion of tennis star Novak Djokovic as “authoritarian” in new research that condemns Northern Territory’s “lockdown of the unvaccinated” as “punitive, discriminatory and coercive… and counter-productive”.
Amid growing protests against vaccine mandates throughout the world, including in Paris, Ottawa and Canberra, nine leading scientists from universities including Oxford, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, have urged mandates be dumped in light of evidence they were “scientifically questionable, ethically problematic, and misguided”.
“Denying individuals education, livelihoods, medical care, or social life unless they get vaccinated does not appear to coincide with constitutional and bioethical principles, especially in liberal democracies,” they added in a research paper published last week.
Singling out Australia, Austria and Germany for locking down the unvaccinated, the authors warned the “risks and harms” from mandates to combat Covid-19 had reached a point where they “far outweighed the benefits”.
Australia deported Mr Djokovic from Melbourne in January on public health grounds after the tennis number one refused to reveal his vaccination status, prompting an international furore.
“The explicit characterisation of Mr Djokovic as a threat to Australian ‘civil order and public health’ underlines concerns of vaccine mandates
“Restricting people’s access to work, education, public transport, and social life based on COVID-19 vaccination status impinges on human rights, promotes stigma and social polarisation, and adversely affects health and wellbeing.”
The scientists said governments had systematically overplayed the effectiveness of the vaccines, underplayed the risks, ignored natural immunity, and mislead populations by not following through with promises to ease restrictions once targets had been reached, fuelling anger that might not quickly subside.
“They have become a source for collective rage and anger, notably for those who have been fired from their jobs or isolated and barred from social life,” they said, suggesting mandates were fuelling extremism on both sides of the debate and did little to lift vaccination rates among vulnerable who most needed to be vaccinated.
European nations and some US states including have dropped or planned to drop Covid-19 restrictions entirely in recent weeks, amid falling infection rates and polling suggesting voters had become tired of restrictions as the pandemic enters its third year in March.
The research condemned Northern Territory chief minister Michael Gunner, who drew international attention in January, ordering a lockdown of unvaccinated residents following similar policies in Germany and Austria a month earlier.
“If you are anti-mandate, you are absolutely anti-vax, I don‘t care what your personal vaccination status is. Your personal vaccination status is not relevant. If you campaign against the mandate…If you say ’pro-persuasion’, stuff it, shove it. You are anti-vax,” the territory leader said at the time.
Protests in Canada against mandates, originally centred in Canada’s capital, which has been in gridlock for weeks as thousands of protesters, many with trucks, blocked city streets, have spread to key crossings between the US and Canadian border, prompting calls for the military to intervene.
On Friday Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, who has blasted the protesters as racists, promised US president Joe Biden “quick action” to unblock the Ambassador Bridge, the world’s largest suspension bridge, which links Michigan and Ontario.
Evidence in the UK and Israel had shown passports that require vaccination to participate in public life increased anger, fuelled mistrust and did little or possibly even reduced, uptake of vaccines which had saved millions of lives.
“Forcefully implemented vaccine policies may entrench existing beliefs of distrust by creating a strong confirmation bias that governments and corporate powers are acting in an authoritarian manner,” they said, noting out some regulatory agencies appeared to be protecting the interests of pharmaceutical companies.
In December 2020, before vaccine were widely available, the World Health Organisation’s immunisation department stated: “I don’t think we envision any countries creating a mandate for [COVID-19] vaccination”.
The scientists said governments had become progressively more authoritarian throughout the pandemic, paving the way for a greater surveillance of individuals’ movement and health choices in the future.
“Will unvaccinated people face exclusions in society for years to come? Will we return to new mandates, and street battles between protesters and police, each time a new variant emerges?”
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How the liberal media outlets that relentlessly pushed 'Russian collusion' smear have totally ignored Durham's revelation that Hillary SPIED on Trump. CNN, NY Times, Washington Post, NBC and CBS all pass
The mainstream media is under fire again for ignoring the bombshell claims Hillary Clinton's campaign spied on Donald Trump while he was President - while they show no hesitation in heavy coverage of the discredited Steele dossier and allegations he was colluding with Russia,
DailyMail.com found no links or references to the latest revelations by Special Counsel John Durham in his probe into the origins of the Russia investigation on the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS.
The story has even been picked up global news organizations, including The Times of London, but has seen little in comparison to the wall-to-wall coverage of the so-called 'dirty dossier' that turned out to be Democrat-funded opposition research used as a basis for the FBI to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The authenticity of the Steele dossier crumbled when Russian-born analyst Igor Y. Danchenko was arrested and indicted in November for lying about his contact with a Bill and Hillary Clinton crony, who supplied some of the information.
Even on Monday, days after the alleged scandal broke, CNN's top story on its digital site was about pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman handing nearly 8,000 documents over to the House committee investigating the Capitol riot.
At the time of Danchenko's arrest, it appeared that the same outlets giving the dossier oxygen before it could be further verified were poised to re-examine their coverage. However since the weekend they have also been silent about Durham's findings.
A 2020 interview Trump sat for with CBS News host Lesley Stahl resurfaced amid the fallout, in which the veteran journalist dismissed claims that political opponents spied on Trump's campaign.
His son Eric Trump called on Stahl to apologize. Trump himself previously called the heated October 2020 interview a 'vicious attempted takeout.'
Trump jumped on the lack of stories published in outlets over the weekend, said it is proof the media is corrupt and claimed 'all hell would break loose' if Republicans faced the same accusations.
He added that the lack of coverage on the matter on more liberal-leaning networks was a 'scandal' itself, in contrast with the steady stream of pundits and Republican officials weighing in on right-wing outlets.
'Can you imagine that, what should be the biggest story of our time, bigger than Watergate, is getting absolutely no mention, ZERO, in the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC Fake News, NBC Fake News, CBS Fake News, ratings-dead CNN, and MSDNC,' Trump said through his Save America PAC.
'This in itself is a scandal, the fact that a story so big, so powerful, and so important for the future of our Nation is getting zero coverage from LameStream, is being talked about all over the world.
Just like they wouldn’t talk about the many Biden corruption scandals prior to the Election, (or for that matter now!), they won’t talk about this, which is potentially even bigger. It shows how totally corrupt and shameless the media is.'
The Democrat-funded opposition research that suggested Trump was in the Kremlin's pocket was found to have been used as the basis for the FBI to surveil ex-Trump campaign aide Carter Page, before key claims in it were debunked and one of its key sources, a Russian analyst named Igor Danchenko, was charged with lying to that same agency.
Meanwhile, conservative pundits and current and former Republican officials have come down on the Clinton team, some even agreeing with Trump's accusation that the Democrat's actions amounted to 'treason.'
Former Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland said the reason mainstream media outlets were ignoring the story was because they were complicit in conjuring a false narrative around the Trump administration, which she was part of for four months in 2017.
From Bill Barr's confirmation hearing to indictments and the crumbling of the Steele dossier: The timeline of Durham's investigation leading up to bombshell Hillary claims
May 17, 2017 – Then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appoints Robert Mueller as special counsel. Among other things, Mueller is directed to investigate 'any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with' Trump's presidential campaign.
After leaving the National Security Council McFarland was briefly considered for the US ambassador post in Singapore.
However her nomination was derailed in the Senate after she was ensnared in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. McFarland had previously told senators that she was not aware of communications between ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Russia, though Mueller's probe later uncovered a 2016 email discussing a meeting between Flynn and a Kremlin official.
She told Fox & Friends on Monday that the media's coverage of the matter 'destroyed' her career and suggested they would try to do the same to Trump.
'All the other media was in on the con, they were all in on it. They were the ones that did Russia, Russia, Russia,' McFarland said.
'I mean, they destroyed my career, my reputation, cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees with the Mueller investigation. So the media, they don't want to touch this because they're complicit in it. They don't want to have to be called before a grand jury and have to say where they got the fake story and why they continue to peddle it.'
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan suggested on Fox program America's Newsroom that Democrats and the media were working together to gin up a narrative.
He compared it to reports from late last year that the National School Boards Association worked in tandem with the Biden White House and Justice Department (DOJ) in a letter to the Attorney General comparing parents protesting Critical Race Theory and COVID-19 mandates to 'domestic terrorists.'
'They were creating the very news they were then tweeting about and trying to get the media to write about. Frankly, it's is no different, it's the template that the left uses, the Democrats use,' Jordan said Monday morning.
'It's the same thing that happened four months ago when we found out the Department of Education went out and solicited the letter from the National School Boards Association so they could to what they wanted to do, namely, spy on parents. And the same thing happened here.'
Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise shared a compilation of online news front pages on Twitter Sunday, pointing out that none of them -- CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post and MSNBC -- made any mention of Durham's findings.
'Yesterday it was revealed that the Clinton Campaign paid a tech company to infiltrate Trump Tower/White House servers and drum up the now-debunked phony Russian collusion hoax that the media ran with,' Scalise wrote.
'Now that same media is silent on this massive scandal. They're complicit.'
Trump reacted to the bombshell news with a stunning suggestion that Clinton should be executed over the allegations.
He released a statement on Saturday evening that began by mis-identifying the special counsel as 'Robert' rather than 'John.'
'The latest pleading from Special Counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia,' Trump said through his Save America PAC.
He added, 'In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death.'
Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan agreed with Trump during an appearance on Fox & Friends Sunday morning.
'We've never seen anything like this in history,' Jordan said.
'So President Trump's statement yesterday, I think is right on target. This is truly unprecedented, truly something that has never happened in the history of our great country.'
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Mob hysteria over the claims of two vocal Australian women
Kevin Donnelly
While both Grace Tame, a victim of sexual abuse, and Brittany Higgins, who was allegedly raped in Parliament House, have every right to argue men are misogynist and their mistreatment of women is motivated by a thirst for power – their appearance at yesterday’s Canberra Press Gallery cannot go unchallenged.
While the woke commentariat attending responded to every criticism and attack with applause and nods of approval, the reality is what occurred represents an appalling lack of journalistic impartiality and objectivity while serving as an example of mindless group think and mob hysteria.
In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, set at the time of the Salem witch hunts but also reflecting the anti-communist inquisition led by Senator Joe McCarthy, mob mentality and unchecked emotion rule the day.
A play where Abigail and her accomplices conjure the devil to accuse the innocent, including John Proctor, and where the court betrays any sense of justice and a commitment to the truth.
A play where Miller reveals a deep-seated, primitive side of human nature and where once the laws are trounced there is nowhere to hide.
While Grace Tame is no Abigail, anyone who saw her performance yesterday witnessed somebody accomplished in working the audience by using every utterance, every pause and inflexion, and every movement to reinforce her message that Scott Morrison and the Liberal government are beyond redemption.
A partisan performance, where an alleged phone call by an anonymous senior bureaucrat is used as evidence to prove the Prime Minister is insensitive and callous and consumed by a thirst for power.
Although Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations have yet to be tested in court, she also swayed the audience to abandon any sense of objectivity. Reminiscent of the Salem witch hunts, an unproven accusation was taken as truth with no attempt to question the events surrounding the alleged crime.
Higgins, working in concert with Tame, also accused the Prime Minister of insincerity and an unwillingness to admit his complicity in what both characterised as a parliamentary atmosphere riven with misogyny and sexual abuse.
As argued by the American feminist Camille Paglia, such is the pervasive influence of the cultural-left’s political correctness and cancel culture. We are living in a time ‘where intolerance masquerades as tolerance and where individual liberty is crushed by the tyranny of the group’.
A time where primitive emotion trumps reason, language is weaponised to enforce mindless group think, and where conservative men – condemned as white, male and stale – are especially targeted and forever guilty.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/02/mob-hysteria
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