Diversity, Not a Strength, But a Riot! By James Reed
A short piece by dissent Right journalist Ben Bartee, puts the point that whatever the endgame of the French riots, it is a clear argument against the present Left-wing mantra, that diversity is a strength. This claim is fanatically mouthed with never any supporting arguments, even though numerous empirical studies show that increased diversity leads to the erosion of social capital, and hence diversity is not a strength.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007.00176.x
Abstract
Ethnic diversity is increasing in most advanced countries, driven mostly by sharp increases in immigration. In the long run immigration and diversity are likely to have important cultural, economic, fiscal, and developmental benefits. In the short run, however, immigration and ethnic diversity tend to reduce social solidarity and social capital. New evidence from the US suggests that in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods residents of all races tend to ‘hunker down’. Trust (even of one's own race) is lower, altruism and community cooperation rarer, friends fewer. In the long run, however, successful immigrant societies have overcome such fragmentation by creating new, cross-cutting forms of social solidarity and more encompassing identities. Illustrations of becoming comfortable with diversity are drawn from the US military, religious institutions, and earlier waves of American immigration.”
https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/burning-paris-belies-the-diversity
“The Brandon entity enthusiastically rehearses its canned line that "diversity is our greatest strength" line ad nauseam as the pretext to maintain its handlers' anti-white racist policies like affirmative action and unchecked immigration through America's porous southern border.
The kind of liberals who reflexively parrot this line no longer even feel the need to justify their claim. It's ascended from an arguable claim to the position of religious revelation – self-evident and not to be questioned.
Paris, however, which is currently on fire with race war, tells a slightly different tale.
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Culturally and racially heterogeneous societies only work if everyone is on board with a serious commitment to pluralistic tolerance and, in the case of religion, a rigidly enforced secularism of state – i.e., the "separation of church" clause in the United States – and deeply held common beliefs shared by all sects within the society.
Islam, being an explicitly political ideology in addition to a religious one, is fundamentally opposed to state secularism. The Quran advocates, for instance, the implementation of religious law (Sharia) as the governing law of the land.
Furthermore, as many analysts have noted before me, Europe has made no ostensible attempt of any kind to assimilate all of the millions of migrants it has absorbed in roughly the last decade.
There are many, many more preconditions to prevent the balkanization and subsequent decline of society into entropy that France and other Western states have failed to maintain.
Sooner or later, the façade was bound to crack.”
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