Thank you for your latest newsletter. I just wanted to say that I have been listening to some of the podcasts from 2022. Somehow, I must have downloaded them when traveling and the ads are all in German. It's both odd and interesting to be in the middle of a podcast about Nazi Germany and an ad for Berlin car sharing apps or German Shopify pops up!
Your last sentence seems contradictory to me. How do you separate importation of ideology from importation of the people who transport that ideology? Is the issue failure to hold recent immigrants to the same norms of behavior as established residents?
Are you talking about how the champions of hard power have no imagination? Or do you mean a different sentence?
To your questions though I think the importation of ideology doesn’t require people to even be here; it’s all online, and that’s usually where you see people start to buy into it. Thus even if it was coming from immigrants that doesn’t really matter. It’s still out there being shared and consumed.
When it comes to holding immigrants to certain standards, I think it’s pretty obvious the bigger problem has been felt in Europe (though by no means exclusively). Obviously the mass assaults in Germany on New Years Eve some years back represent a kind of failure. The revelations about the Rotherham rape gangs not being pursued in the UK are another example. As best I can tell that hasn’t really been as much of a problem in the US. Partly because I think we are by definition a heterogenous culture with robust free speech protections and because I think we have a more efficient political system in place. When practices of FGM were being highlighted in certain Somali communities, for example, legal pressure created the incentive to crack down, which if memory serves, that happened. America’s strength is allowing for all ideas, including ones that seek to bring us down, because we have systems in place that can effectively counteract any attempts to undermine our strengths.
Thank you for your latest newsletter. I just wanted to say that I have been listening to some of the podcasts from 2022. Somehow, I must have downloaded them when traveling and the ads are all in German. It's both odd and interesting to be in the middle of a podcast about Nazi Germany and an ad for Berlin car sharing apps or German Shopify pops up!
Anyway, keep up the good work.
No kidding?? That's really funny. Maybe it's BMW's way of saying "Well, we're sorry about that whole supporting Third Reich thing..." lol
Your last sentence seems contradictory to me. How do you separate importation of ideology from importation of the people who transport that ideology? Is the issue failure to hold recent immigrants to the same norms of behavior as established residents?
Are you talking about how the champions of hard power have no imagination? Or do you mean a different sentence?
To your questions though I think the importation of ideology doesn’t require people to even be here; it’s all online, and that’s usually where you see people start to buy into it. Thus even if it was coming from immigrants that doesn’t really matter. It’s still out there being shared and consumed.
When it comes to holding immigrants to certain standards, I think it’s pretty obvious the bigger problem has been felt in Europe (though by no means exclusively). Obviously the mass assaults in Germany on New Years Eve some years back represent a kind of failure. The revelations about the Rotherham rape gangs not being pursued in the UK are another example. As best I can tell that hasn’t really been as much of a problem in the US. Partly because I think we are by definition a heterogenous culture with robust free speech protections and because I think we have a more efficient political system in place. When practices of FGM were being highlighted in certain Somali communities, for example, legal pressure created the incentive to crack down, which if memory serves, that happened. America’s strength is allowing for all ideas, including ones that seek to bring us down, because we have systems in place that can effectively counteract any attempts to undermine our strengths.