Tuesday 27 November 2018

The Overton Window

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Unherd is something I subscribe to. It sends me emails with interesting political articles, from a range of viewpoints from left to right. It just invited me to a debate in London, between five people, none of whom are conservatives, entitled “Immigration and Diversity Politics: A Challenge to Liberal Democracy?”

All I want to say about this is that the debate was originally on the question “Is rising ethnic diversity a threat to the West?”, until last month when the title was changed. It was changed after what is called a Twitterstorm from people who said asking such a question was inadmissible and normalised racism.

Make of this what you will, gentle reader. I just thought it worth telling you.

4 comments:

  1. “Is rising ethnic diversity a threat to the West?”
    Noo... check out these success stories:

    Most Ethnically Diverse Countries in the World

    Rank Country Ethnic Diversity Score

    1 Papua New Guinea 1.0000
    2 Tanzania 0.9530
    3 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.9330
    4 Uganda 0.9300
    5 Liberia 0.8990
    6 Cameroon 0.8870
    7 Togo 0.8830
    8 South Africa 0.8800
    9 Congo 0.8780
    10 Madagascar 0.8610
    11 Gabon 0.8570
    12 Kenya 0.8520
    13 Ghana 0.8460
    14 Malawi 0.8290
    15 Guinea-Bissau 0.8180
    16 Somalia 0.8120
    17 India 0.8110
    18 Nigeria 0.8050
    19 Yugoslavia (1943–1992) 0.8010
    20 Central African Republic 0.7910
    21 Ivory Coast 0.7840
    22 Lebanon 0.7800
    23 Chad 0.7720
    24 Indonesia 0.7660
    25 Mozambique 0.7650
    26 Gambia 0.7640
    27 Sierra Leone 0.7640
    28 Ethiopia 0.7600
    29 Angola 0.7560
    30 Mali 0.7540
    31 Afghanistan 0.7510
    32 Bolivia 0.7430
    33 United Arab Emirates 0.7370
    34 Senegal 0.7270
    35 Zambia 0.7260
    36 Namibia 0.7240
    37 Soviet Union (1922–1991) 0.7110
    38 Sudan (1955–2011) 0.7080
    39 Kuwait 0.7080
    40 Burkina Faso 0.7040
    41 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.6810
    42 Kyrgyzstan 0.6790
    43 Nepal 0.6770
    44 Iran 0.6690
    45 Guinea 0.6690
    46 Kazakhstan 0.6640
    47 Colombia 0.6560
    48 Ecuador 0.6550
    49 Eritrea 0.6470
    50 Trinidad and Tobago 0.6470

    https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-ethnically-diverse-countries-in-the-world.html

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  2. They are not successes but not are they very suddenly diversifying.

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  3. @Toma
    Very interesting and worthwhile contribution.
    I appreciate your posts more and more!

    Serbia has a very largely homogenous (ethnic Serb and orthodox Christian) population but if you check the small print, it has a diverse number of ethnic minorities, most of which are horrendously white ;) except the Roma.

    @Paul
    "They are not successes but not are they very suddenly diversifying."
    What are you trying to say Paul?

    It seems to be taken that diversity is a universal good but what are the concrete benefits? There must be some SJW, woke person or virtue signaller, out there who can enlighten me by identifying them :).

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  4. 'what are the concrete benefits? '


    "The most fully documented instances of cannibalism as a social institution come from New Guinea, where head-hunting and ritual cannibalism survived, in certain isolated areas, into the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies, and still leave traces within certain social groups."

    Torgovnick, Marianna (1991). Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives, University of Chicago Press. p. 258 ISBN 0-226-80832-7Torgovnick, Marianna (1991). Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives, University of Chicago Press. p. 258 ISBN 0-226-80832-7

    Love it: 'Savage Intellects, Modern Lives'

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