By Steve Sailer
09/06/2012
David Frum attempts to explain what’s inside the head of the typical delegate at last week’s GOP convention:
This whole thing about us not being "diverse" enough — can we cut the crap on that? You suddenly load up the country with millions of newcomers, put them on food stamps and unemployment insurance and Medicaid and what all, put them on the voting rolls without any ID — invite them to help themselves to everything that was earned before they showed up — and what do you expect the original Americans to do?You think we're not diverse? This is what diversity looks like: the newcomers bunching up in one party, the old stock inhabitations bunching up in the other. It’s the same in Britain and in France and in Germany, and just about everywhere. You don’t like it? Maybe you should have thought of that before you invited half of Mexico to move here.
Nothing against Mexican people! Or black people! Or any kind of people! So long as they pull their weight. Maybe instead of asking us why all these so-called diverse people are not Republicans, maybe you should ask them why they don’t support the party for the people who do the work and pay the bills. Maybe it’s their problem, not ours, that they identify with a president who is tearing down everything I grew up with.
Whoever you blame, I don’t see why I should change my beliefs just because somebody with a different color skin doesn’t like them. I don’t like Barack Obama’s beliefs, but he won’t change them on my account. Why is it that the guy with the white skin has to change his mind, not the guy with the other kind of skin? Or why can’t we just respect the fact that some of us have one set of beliefs — others have different beliefs — and let us all compete on voting day and may the best team win? Why do you liberals always have to be dragging race into it? Makes me think that it’s you guys, who are always blaming just one race for everything that’s wrong with America, who are the real racists.
What you want is a country where everybody looks different, and everybody thinks the same. That’s what you call diversity. No thanks. You work hard, you pay your way, you quit asking for handouts, and you're American enough for me — and you'll be up there on the podium with Bobby Jindal, Allen West, Herman Cain, and Nikki Haley as a leader of the one party in this country that isn’t hung up on race.
Well said, but I think you can notice the areas of weakness in this mindset that will relentlessly be exploited.
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