Frank Galvin said:
Redbrickbear said:
Frank Galvin said:
If you argue against UT spots going to actual foreigners who are not going to stay in America, fine, I probably agree with you. State resources should not go to something that will not benefit the state.
But most of you are arguing that Americans should not be at UT because of their ethnicity, regardless of their intellectual merit.
God is ashamed of you. Your argument is racist and sickening. Period, end of story.
No...they are arguing that American citizenship should not be so easily sold that the demographics of entire States can't switch in a breathtaking short term. Not even a single lifetime.
PS
Westerners are the least racist people on earth....the most welcoming and the least ethno-nationalist
I mean you don't see Africans, East Asians, Israelis, Arabs, or Indians letting in millions of other peoples into their nations do you?
Blaming Texans or Americans for not wanting to be demographically replaced in a single lifetime...while not holding the rest of the world to this same standard is utter and horrible hypocrisy.
What a racist trope. First, you have no idea whether those specific kids are from India, Asia, or Lorena. Second, the more general idea that we are being swamped by Asians or Muslims has zero statistical support. While Asians are Texas's fastest-growing demographic, they comprise about 6% of the state's population, growing at an annual rate of 5-6% compared with an overall growth rate of about 1.5%. In other words, they constitute a small percentage of the population and will remain a minority. Third, America has always been about immigration. The same complaints you are making now were leveled against the Irish, the Italians, Eastern Europeans, and previous generations of Asians.
What really upsets you is not that they won't "assimilate," because they do assimilate. Going crazy at a college football game proves that point.
You and French are upset that so many of them are in the picture because they earned their way into a selective public school. If America is one thing, it is supposed to be a meritocracy.
1. First of all the concept that citizenship should not be so easy to acquire and that mass migration should be slowed down is an opinion....not a trope.
Its a policy idea (expand and increase migration flows...or slow them down). Something to debate.
2. I have NOT made the argument that Asian immigration in Texas (East Asian or Indian subcontinent) is statistically that vast.
The statement I made in the response (and you did not even engage with it) was that Westerners in general are in fact far less racist and ethno-nationalist than other peoples on the planet currently.
That is shown is lots of surveys and data collected all over the world...
You seem very upset that Western peoples might have a problem with mass demographically changing migration levels. And don't seem at all concerned with the hypocrisy of India, Africa, Arab States, China, Israel, Etc. not having the same open door or welcoming stance toward immigrants of different backgrounds.
I mean at some point we have to touch on this "mass
migration levels for thee, but not for me" attitude shown by many other Nations & peoples around the world.
3. I do in indeed support a meritocracy. That is the very reason I am against DEI type policies (at Baylor, UT-Austin, or anywhere else). If we can all be certain that a pure meritocracy is at play then it does NOT bother me if UT-Austin or Rice University become majority Asian through a fair & open enrollment process. Let the best grades and tests scores win out.
It is in fact the modern Left in the West that has a big problem with accepting meritocracy and the idea that in a real meritocratic system each group my not be exactly represented via their percentage of the general population.