tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post7303550433681189842..comments2024-03-28T09:46:24.020+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : Mark Steyn is in favour of immigrationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-17341794355101260462012-02-23T19:05:37.803+02:002012-02-23T19:05:37.803+02:00I never replied to this - having disabled my Faceb...I never replied to this - having disabled my Facebook account (let's see how long I last out) I wondered what you would like Steyn to say that he doesn't say. I remember you pointed out in another place that he never calls for an end to immigration, only for more assimilation, which seems a cop-out, I agree. I also wondered what your take is on this: <br /><br />http://www.steynonline.com/4829/the-catholic-statePolitical Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-46496797801646012012011-07-18T12:27:47.263+03:002011-07-18T12:27:47.263+03:00I restate my view that Mark Steyn is a fraud and a...I restate my view that Mark Steyn is a fraud and a con artist. He deliberately focuses on the allegedly irreversible low fertility of Europeans so as to avoid saying anything useful on Muslim immigration. His explanation is that Muslim immigration is happening because European birthrates are too low to support the “European nanny states” (a safe and convenient culprit) This sloppy lazy explanation is absurd since the vast welfare dependent Muslim communities in France and Britain are evidently not filling labour shortages created by a low native birth rate. If Steyn has any discernable solution at all it is increasing the “native” birthrates, (he is too cowardly to use the word “white”) as though by some mysterious process churning out more native babies is supposed to restore national identity and decrease Islamic birth rates. <br /><br />Other weasel like explanations he likes are “secularism” “multiculturalism” “lack of cultural confidence” This is the type of standard obtuseness and dishonesty inherent in neocon thinking, that all the problems stemming from third world immigration come from the West’s left-wing policies and culture, not from the immigration itself. What would abandoning ‘multiculturalism’, ‘political correctness’’restoring civilisational confidence’ involve exactly? He avoids explaining. In the Danish video link he says that Muslims will overhwlem Europe demographically within 2 generation while within the same breath saying the Europeans should try to “assimilate” those overwhelming them which is idiotic and self-refuting. Maybe a way to restore Western confidence might be to stop massive Muslim immigration which encourages Europeans to think that they have no future. <br /><br /> And when steyn isn’t proposing non-solutions he is indulging in schadenfreude about Europe’s impending destruction. I even remember him saying that he wouldn’t care if there were no Beligans left in 100 years. Also the reasons he gives for preferring the west (e.g. universal suffrage and rule of law) are typical of the neoconservatives who care only about abstract ideas never the substance and culture of a people (except of course if it is the 'chosen people') Of all the pseudo-conservative chest-thumping frauds writing in the mainstream media nobody is more proficient than Steyn in disguising calls for surrender in a language and style that makes him seem like a conservative defender of the West. His popularity is testament to the brain-dead wasteland of ‘conservative’ journalism today.<br /><br />Lucas JervasiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com