The Totally Not Racist Steve King in His Own Words

George Turner in reply to Don Zeko says:

He’s not extolling the virtues of white people, he’s extolling the virtues of Westerners. The thing about Western culture is that it’s pretty homogeneous, even when you include the Japanese. Swedes, Finns, Italians, French, Germans, Brits, and Americans have much the same culture, pretty similar government and legal systems, and similar social mores. You could swap them around without much concern and without anyone much noticing.

What King is talking about is the problems caused by the mass immigration of people from outside Western culture, problems seen in Europe. The Europeans went with a couple unjustified and incorrect assumptions about immigration.

Their only real prior experience with immigration was with Jewish immigration, and none of them had ever needed to do anything in particular to get Jews to successfully integrate and become highly productive members of their newly adopted nations. That’s because Jews had been doing that for millennia, with the caveat that for much of that time they restricted themselves to ghettos to preserve their own social workings. But in the past few centuries, Jews automatically integrate and establish themselves without the need for any outside influences.

The Europeans also saw that America’s melting pot had successfully integrated waves of European immigrants, without stopping to consider that all those immigrants were European, from essentially the same culture that America was founded with.

Then they looked at how America had few problems integrating large numbers of Mexican immigrants, again without pausing to consider that those Mexican immigrants had much the same culture as previous Italians and Spanish who were conservative Catholics. In essence, modern Hispanic immigrants, illegal or not, are culturally very similar to Americans in the 1940’s or 1950’s.

The US absorbed about 2 million Vietnamese, but again, Vietnamese integrate really well. Hungary’s Orban (the bad boy of European immigration), says he wants more Vietnamese because they work harder and more successfully than Hungarians, fit right in, and are just wonderful people. But he doesn’t want any Muslims.

So Western Europe assumed that Muslims would integrate just like the prior examples I listed – but they don’t. Or at least they don’t once you stop filtering to accept only Muslim doctors, lawyers, scientists, and engineers. Once you throw the door open to all their imams, truck drivers, and bricklayers, you get Muslim culture.

You see, in contrast to some of these other groups, large numbers of Muslims don’t integrate, they occupy. Their view is that their culture is completely superior to Western culture and that we should adapt to them, not vice versa. This view has been hammered into them for centuries. A Saudi minister for Vice and Virtue complains about this common view and says it holds his country back because they reflexively reject all Western ideas. He points out that Europe has had many generations of Muslims who are still not remotely integrated. So France has suburbs where almost no Muslim males have gone to college, nor did their fathers and grandfathers. The areas where they live are culturally not French, they are still Algerian, Moroccan, etc.

As their numbers grow very large, what they produce is their Muslim culture from back home, in which many feel free to correct Western behavior, sometimes violently. It is for this reason that Marine Le Pen’s strongest support a few years ago was from the French gay community. To them France used to be a place where they could be openly gay. In many areas they can no longer do that because they’d be assaulted or killed. For them, they’re no longer really living in France, they’re living in Morocco.

The same holds true for ex-Muslims who are trying to flee Muslim culture. We have loads of those and they are quite adamant that they don’t want us to import the very culture they fled. Try reading Muslim atheist blogs for a feeling of what they go through back home, or check the #exMuslim hashtag on Twitter.Report