First off, I am a son of immigrant parents (from South East Asia), so I am aware that I am lucky to be able to live in Europe with its significantly higher standards of living, and social nets that prevent people from falling from the wayside of society.
But this doesn't mean that I believe that migration is a societal trend that has no problems, and that anyone that opposes its excesses is a bigoted racist. There are always nuances in a complex society, and the surest way to dig yourself into an ideological hole is to pretend that the other side has nothing intelligent to say whatsoever, which is what much of the left-wing does with regards to mass migration.
The most steelmanned version of anti-immigration views that I see is that allowing migrants is fine as long as they integrate well into their country of destination—at least economically and socially, because cultural integration is much harder 1.
The problem with this is that of course, it is basically impossible to tell beforehand who will integrate well from who will not, the same way that it is difficult to tell who is a competent employee from a resume alone, and therefore conservatives take the oversimplified approach to reject immigrants altogether.
Why is that? Because mass immigration fractures communities, because there is less of a shared context around which to bind. It even leads to people who do not speak the same language, so it makes even basic communication harder. Add to that the increased demand for rent, jobs, and other scarce services (unemployment, public transport, and much more), on top of the fact that migrants do not feel as much of a need to take care of the country they live in 2, and you can see why someone would be against mass migration.
The liberal middle class consistently sees the right-wing as 'evil', but the former are essentially always shielded from the worst consequences of immigration, while the lower class are confronted first-hand with its consequences. It's easy to talk about 'open-mindedness' and 'tolerance' when your entire circle is made of nice and harmless middle-class people, and when the few migrants that happen to be in there are also the most docile and agreeable ones.
But by and large the sentiment is that people feel less safe walking around parts of the country that have a high population of lower-class immigrants. From what I can tell, the middle class has a fairly high number of people who agree with this sentiment, but because they are socially punished for voicing any such opinion, they do not say so in public. The lower class on the other hand doesn't have the same agenda of political correctedness, which means they are more fine with being publicly harsh, 3 and thus become easy targets for the defenders of the totems of the system, in this case, 'tolerance'.
A decent amount of the people I grew up with were migrants, most of whom were Muslim (I know that this denotes a religion and not an ethnicity, but 'Arab' doesn't do it either because there were plenty of Turkish, Kurds and Chechens too, on top of the usual Moroccans, Tunisians and Algerians, none of which are considered 'arabic' from what I can tell), some of which were Black or Asian, and as I grew older, I started being more around white people, simply because the migrant kids drifted off in other directions while I pursued my education.
Because of this, I used to be more sympathetic towards Islam, but now I think that whatever goodness is found in the people from that religion exists despite their religion, not because of it. I have found that the women in Muslim communities tend to be quite nice to be around, warm, friendly and chatty when you get to know them, and here and there you find a gentle, sensitive man, typically Turkish or Lebanese for some reason, but those people exist despite what their worldly religion tells them, because funnily enough, most theists don't know their religion all that well do they?
I am not saying that Muslims are terrorists, or anything as crude as that, I am saying that Islam perpetrates the same disconnect from consciousness which plagues Judaism, and most of Christianity (everything which doesn't come from Christ basically, Paul for instance was quite keen on bowing down to authorities), and then tries to impose some form of "morality" and order through an iron fist, top-down manner onto its people. This is why the Abrahamic religions are so obsessed with following rules, because the consciousness from which love emerges is missing, and this is why their followers tend to be so keen on pursuing power and justifying it as valid spirituality, and why so many of them are afflicted with problems which they are not interested in resolving, such as sexual problems, drinking problems, (many Muslims drink and smoke frequently, interestingly enough) mood problems, etc.
Religion aside, Muslims, and African migrants in general, also do not have much respect for the country they migrate to. Or rather, it is more fair to say that the parents have a general respect for the country, because they are more mature and because their paycheck depends on integrating well, whereas their children rarely share such an attitude. 4
My parents have always made it an important point to adapt and integrate to the country we live in, and after witnessing the way in which most Muslim and African migrants have a way of forming their own parallel societies, I have come to appreciate their attitude. Those migrants keep to themselves, even and especially at early ages, use words in a language that only they understand, make fun of the locals who tend to be far more respectful towards them than they are respectful towards the locals, have no interest in local history or culture, on and on.
I have witnessed all of this firsthand as a kid, and you could say that this is a biased outlook because people tend to be far more immature when they are young, which is fair, but how could you expect such behavior to correct itself as people age? If anything, I expect the self-segregation to get even worse as the years go by, as they live more and more in their own parallel society, develop social habits, build commerces and networks in the economy, and become accustomed to that way of living.
I'm actually surprised at how much time it took for right-wing sentiments with regards to immigration to take over in Europe, because public schools are already made of a majority of immigrants from what I can tell.
The 'great replacement' conspiracy theory has more validity to it when you google things like "white woman and her family", or "white woman and her husband", and you see how many images depict interracial couples or families, even though the prevalence of such couples is significantly lower in the West than what is depicted. 5
Maybe you could argue that the right-wing themselves flooded the internet with those images to have false evidence for their crazy theory, and honestly it is possible with the current technologies considering how easy it is to generate a massive amount of pictures, but the theory of the great replacement cannot be dismissed as easily when you look around at the distribution of people in schools, as mentioned above.
I think that the great replacement is not caused by some 'agenda' by the elites, I think it's rather a combination of factors in two major aspects. Firstly, economical factors, because immigrants provide cheap labor, increase the demand for rent and housing, which allows those to increase in prices as the years go by 6, and increase the overall demand for the other things in our economy. And secondly, factors in demographics, the way in which Muslims and black people tend to have far more children than Westerners, which means that over time, the former tend to be more numerous than the latter.
But no matter what explanation you attribute to the phenomenon, in practice the consequence is the same: more and more immigrants, white people feeling like minorities in their own country, a degradation of social trust and cohesion, and more and more internal conflicts.
People like to blame this on politics, but ultimately immigration results from the technological system, which displaces people so as to replace expensive labor with cheaper labor, has no need for cultural cohesion and stability, because they get in the way of technological progress and market efficiency, and always needs to uproot financial stability in order to force people to constantly work for the system.
Mass migration is a dysfunctional trend which itself is part of a dysfunctional system. I tend to not look at issues in isolation, but because I tend to occasionally mention my stances on mass migration, I feel the need to have a dedicated piece just on that topic.
But to take the broader look, I oppose not just mass migration because of what it does to local cultures and economies, but also to what it does to the migrants, who see their culture and family broken apart due to trends in the system they have no control over.
It's not very hard to see that many, many families with migrant parents are incredibly dysfunctional. You can't blame the parents for doing what they did, because by and large they had no choice, and they took a massive risk and had to adapt to many things in order to provide some form of stability to their children. And you can't exactly blame the children, though of course they are responsible, for not being very good or conscious people, considering the type of environments they evolve in.
I also oppose the wars and the outrageous social inequalities that make migration necessary in the first place. I oppose the complex technology that necessitates those wars to happen, and which systematically results in inequality, and I oppose the alienated self that builds such a technological system to begin with, and which forces everyone to live under it, because it destroys any possibility for life outside of the system.
I oppose the entire intellectual, social (or rather anti-social), economical, political and technological stack that leads to the system and to the unconscious ego that maintain it. Taking my stances on mass migration out of context is like calling out the Tao Te Ching for being gender essentialist; the claim is true, and I personally have no problems with gender essentialism anyway, but it misses the entire context of the harmony that it tries to point towards, something which is entirely outside of the insanity and unsustainability of the modern world.
I am not merely interested in parts, I am interested in the whole tree, down to the roots especially, which is where our predicament really lies. Do everything you can to address mass migration, and you haven't resolved much of the actual problems that lead to all of the dysfunctions in our society. Our world would still be run by the unconscious drive for technological progress, and the maintenance of the alienated self, major inequalities would still exist even in the most privileged parts of the world, corruption would still be rampant, and the incentives for mass surveillance would still exist, work would still be alienating and part of an unsustainable system, and the inevitable collapse of it all wouldn't be addressed in any shape or form.
A clear tell that someone is a fool is that they cannot help but focus all of their thoughts and attention on isolated issues, which is why a foolish world can only engage in debates around decontextualized problems: migration, climate change, birth rates, economic growth, AI, etc. The only way to face the collapse of the modern world, and one's individual death, is by facing the whole, and acting responsibly. Everything else is distraction.
1 Arguably, even a lot of Westerners are not versed in their own history and cultural lineage due to the trends of modernity that force people to constantly adapt to new changes and technologies, rejecting their culture and their heritage in the process. Personally, I would prefer if Europeans respected their own culture and their own country, and rejected the unconscious demands of the technological system, because culture has far deeper and lasting value than whatever the system messes up with, but obviously the trends that we are witnessing are not the result of conscious decisions, but rather the unconscious, game theoretical trends of power winning everything in the short term.
2 Going around lower-income parts of my city, the ones with a fairly high number of Muslim immigrants, and many parts of the streets are made incredibly dirty from the trash, cigarettes and gum thrown on the floor. I don't know whether it is the migrants who are doing all of this, or whether the streets would be dirty regardless, but because immigrants do not cherish a country the same way that its locals do, you can see how someone would believe that it is the immigrants' fault for the streets getting dirtier.
3 Which doesn't make them more virtuous to be clear, just more transparent and honest about their opinions.
4 The number of Muslims and black people I have encountered at school (and some at work, so it wasn't just the children) who fawned over American 'culture', but didn't care at all about European culture, even though they themselves were living in Europe, was quite astounding. Makes you wonder why they stay here instead of moving to America.
5 Search "black woman and her family" and you don't find as many examples of the opposite though. Go figure.
6 I don't have any figures to back this up, but I suspect that most of the 'economy' in the West follows a similar dynamic to real estate: assets that are said to 'increase' in value as the years go by, to hide the fact that the real economy of goods and services is more and more vacuous.
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