In a statement concerning the opposition of some Republicans to immigration of tech workers to the US, Elon Musk stated:
"Hateful, Unrepentant Racists" Should Be Removed from the Republican Party "Root and Stem"
But the meaning of this statement is not at all clear.
For one thing, why does Musk qualify "Racist" with the term "Unrepentant"?
My guess is that he does so for the same reason he would never refer to a liberal with views similar to his own as "unrepentant," repentance being only for those who are in the wrong. So to talk of an "unrepentant racist" is simply a fancy way of saying that a racist is someone who is willfully wrong, or as one might say, "depraved."
For another thing, why exactly does Musk call racists "Hateful"? The term is ambiguous. It can mean filled with hate or, quite differently, deserving of hatred. Is Musk even sure what he means? Perhaps he is merely seeking to establish his PC moral cred, in which case the actual meaning, if any, is irrelevant. But if he means to convey a significant message, then he needs to speak more clearly. But since we are unlikely to receive clarification of his statement from Musk himself, we'll do our best here to unravel its meaning here.
To a liberal, the implication that a racist person is corrupt or depraved may be an article of faith. But is it correct? To answer that, we need to be clear as to what a "Racist" is. That's difficult to state succinctly because the term has more than one definition. Merriam-Webster's dictionary, for example, says a racist is:
someone who holds the belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities.
Rather differently, however, the Cambridge Dictionary says that a racist is someone who:
believes that their race makes them better, more intelligent, more moral, etc. than people of other races.
Thus, according to Webster, a racist is simply an unrepentant scientific realist. But Musk is surely not presuming to repudiate the science of evolutionary biology. Therefore, we must conclude that his disdain is directed at racists of the Cambridge Dictionary variety, aka racial supremacists.
Inconveniently for Musk, however, it is the case that the human races do differ objectively in many respects including moral precepts, intellect, and physique. To take one of a vast number of possible examples, Australian aborigines are good at finding their way in the bush, a capacity related to the fact that they have a larger visual cortex than either mine or yours dear reader. They are, in other words, in some particular way at least, more intelligent, intellectually superior one might say, to other races.
Furthermore, vast cultural differences may divide racial groups, as for example between adherents of, say, Western, aka Christian, civilization, and practitioners of Voodoo.
As the result of natural selection operating in different environments and in response to random genetic change, human populations that have long existed in relative isolation differ from one another not only culturally but genetically. As a result, these long separated human populations, aka races, can be differentiated on numerous scales from IQ, to cultural sophistication, and from cranial capacity to skin color and resistance to cancer due to solar radiation. These differences have huge implications for the consequences of human population migration. Humans, like all living creatures, exist only as the result of perpetual reproduction. Loss of the capacity to reproduce, whether by a species, a race, a variety, or a family means extinction. Thus, when populations migrate to places already populated they threaten the survival of the resident population by competing for the resources necessary to existence.
If migrants to an inhabited area look and behave like the locals, friction will be at a minimum. But when migrants look or behave differently than the natives, then expect trouble. Each of the Earth's multitude of life forms pesists only by maintaining their gene pool from one generation to the next. Through competition for living space and other resources mass human immigration reduces the reproductive opportunity of a native population. Immigration is thus always a threat. Moreover, immigration not only reduces the size of the native gene pool by reducing the resources available to support the native population, it also transforms the native gene pool through interracial breeding.
It is because ordinary folk understand its consequences for their own race that anywhere and everywhere they push back against mass immigration -- for example, against the ten million illegals to the US during Biden's last year, or several million mostly unemployed migrants to Starmer's Britain. So what Musk calls "Hateful Unrepentant Racism" is what any Darwinian will recognize as adaptive behavior conducive to the perpetuation of a native population, its genes, its culture, language, and religion undiluted by genetic and cultural introjection.
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LOL, Steve Bannon calls Musk a globalist: "You'd take a cheque from Adolph Hitler."
Meantime, Musk has doubled down, stating: "The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B.
Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot…"
Such comment makes clear why, despite the cash they might bring to the table, appointing a tech tycoon with Aspergers to any significant political role would be a mistake.
And Musk is mistaken if he thinks that it's the trickle of genius migrants to which ordinary folk in any country object. It's not. It's the mass immigration of cheap labor, such as the the nine-dollar-an-hour Indian programmers (and here) who wrote the so-called MCAS software that crashed two Boeing 737s in 2019. These people, like the migrants to Britain who account for 42% of the National Health Service's staff, compete directly with native labor, driving down wages and driving up unemployment, while they compete with the native working class for housing, thus driving the cost of housing sky high.
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