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Thread ID: 4476 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-01-16
2003-01-16 21:05 | User Profile
For the first time to my knowledge, facts about the negative impact of mass immigration have been published by The New Republic, perhaps due to an oversight. Following are excerpts from "America's Love Affair with Sociopathic Cars: Axis of Evil" by Gregg Easterbrook. TNR, January 20, 2003. They obviously need to watch this token goy more carefully, since his opinions clearly are not Good For The Jews. (This article was linked by VNN.)
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High and Mighty makes still another unsettling point about the safety of SUVs. So far SUVs have been only somewhat more dangerous than cars, Bradsher writes, because they are expensive and tend to be purchased by well-off people between 30 and 50 years old, a cohort with a below-average incident of causing crashes. Soon, as the first generation of monster SUVs gets traded in, these behemoths will begin entering the used-car market, where they will be purchased by immigrants, the lower middle class, and the poor, who generally speed, run lights, drive drunk, and crash more often than the prosperous classes. It is sad but true that the less well-off, and especially immigrants, drive more recklessly than the well-off; and the fines, the points, the raised insurance rates, the revoked licenses, and the greater incidence of crashes are all reasons that they tend to stay less well-off. At any rate, this segment of the population is about to be armed with three-ton SUVs and enormous pickups.
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The "responsible middle-aged people" who bought the first wave of SUVs, Bradsher notes, mainly had families and did most of their driving in daylight, when crashes happen less. But the teenagers, the immigrants, the rowdy young guys, and the others who are about to inherit the first wave of SUVs drive at night, when accident rates spike. Today "more than half of the nation's SUVs are less than five years old," meaning that they are in the hands of their original owners. Within a few years, the majority of SUVs will be in the hands of their second or third owners--who, statistics predict, will be more prone to driving these monsters carelessly.
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Rising immigration is another factor in declining road civility. Today the United States admits more legal immigrants annually than all other nations in the world combined, and its percentage of foreign-born citizens is the highest it has been since the 1920s. Mainly this is a social good; but if you have ever driven in poor nations, you know that American roads are models of civic decorum compared with much of the rest of the world. In developing nations, traffic moves willy-nilly, while people ignore lights and veer blithely into congested roads. Some immigrants bring such habits here, and since state authorities have in effect decided that a driver's license should go to everyone over sixteen regardless of skill--licenses are now handed out for barely minimal displays of competency--an international bad-driver virus is loose on America's roads.
Consider the changing sociology of the flashing of high beams. Traditionally in the United States, a quick flash of high beams has meant, "You go first." In much of the world--especially in India and Pakistan, the cradle of a large fraction of recent immigrants--flashed high beams mean, "I should rather that I and all my family died a gruesome, meaningless death than yield to you." People in India and Pakistan flash their high beams as a warning that they are about to run a light or are coming the wrong way down a one-lane road. Ten years ago in the Washington area, when you flashed your high beams at someone waiting to make a left turn, the person would make the turn and give you a grateful wave. Now when you do this the other driver does not budge, assuming the flash means that you are accelerating for the purpose of cutting him off.
In the second paragraph, Easterbrook discloses that his children go to Cabin John Middle School in Montgomery County, Maryland. It's a nearly all-white though increasingly Jewish school just east of the Potomac, where the only Mexicans carry leafblowers and sell drugs across the street after school. Since Easterbrook purports to be an immigration enthusiast -- perhaps a requirement for job security at a Jewish magazine -- he should be sending the little Easterbrooks to one of Montgomery County's many all non-white schools, where they could experience mass immigration first hand.
2003-01-16 22:24 | User Profile
The author says that "Mainly this [lots of immigrants] is a social good." Contributors to TNR are free to discuss the occasional downside of immigration, as long as they affirm its essentially beneficial nature. If your article makes more than a passing reference to some disadvantage of immigration, you must use the phrase "ugly nativism" to make clear what you do not practice.