Second and Third Thoughts

(March 19, Adela replies to Jake.)

Jake F. writes:

I’ve been thinking about VFR a lot lately. I need to write up my thoughts and misgivings after witnessing a great St. Patrick’s Day parade in my town. It made me think about—and question—some of the basic problems you have outlined with immigration. If a country can assimilate, find value in, and celebrate even a flood of Irish miscreants, might we be able to do the same with Hispanics, Blacks, and Asians?

But before I go there: The story below had the opposite effect on me:

Crocodile Snatches 11-Year-Old, Police Find Remains

DARWIN, Australia—Police said they found human remains Monday in an Australian swamp where a crocodile snatched an 11-year-old girl….

If confirmed, it would be the second fatal crocodile attack in northern Australia in five weeks….

A 5-year-old boy vanished from a river edge in northeastern Australia on Feb. 8, and officials later confirmed an attack when his remains were found in the stomach of a 14-foot crocodile.

Last September, a 62-year-old man was killed by a crocodile in another northeastern river while checking crab pots.

Crocodiles have become plentiful in Australia’s tropical north since they became protected by federal law in 1971.

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We protect these creatures because we think it’s wrong for them to be marginalized or destroyed—even to the point of letting them eat our children.

Need I say more?

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March 19

Adela G. writes:

Jake F. writes: If a country can assimilate, find value in, and celebrate even a flood of Irish miscreants, might we be able to do the same with Hispanics, Blacks, and Asians?

I found this question very disturbing. Why compare apples and oranges? The Irish are part of European culture, and Hispanics, blacks and Asians are not. Members of an extended family are more likely to find shared commonalities than people who are entirely unrelated.

We will never succeed in stopping the steady erosion of traditionalism if we continue to think and speak, even among fellow traditionalists, as modern liberalism dictates. Modern liberalism has flourished not through physical force but through the force of ideology as expressed in words and legislature. We would do well to remember that and to phrase our thoughts in ways that oppose it and that expose its inherent unfairness and authoritarianism.

LA replies:

Jake F. has never been on board with VFR’s view of the importance of race, so he needs to hear replies such as Adela’s.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 16, 2009 12:22 PM | Send