What Noah Smith thinks about immigration
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17 dated positions, 2024 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Noah Smith has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsBut France shows that the left-liberal approach to immigration simply doesn’t work equally well for all countries.
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Our readingThe New Right views Western Civilization as being invaded by people from non-Western civilizations.
Their wordsThe core belief of the New Right, in other words, is that Western Civilization is being invaded by barbarians — people from non-Western civilizations, who come to the West under the guise of immigration and then proceed to try to overthrow the West from within, with the aid of local leftists and progressive elites.
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsI agree that wokeness radicalized the GOP, but I also think that the fear of nonwhite immigration was already driving the Trump movement before wokeness really took off.
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Their wordsRightists are not interested in *reforming* the immigration system. Sure, they'd love to halt all immigration. But really, what they're interested in is targeting immigrants, in order to prove that they still have the power to exclude someone from American society.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsWhat it tells us is that if you’re a nonwhite immigrant, or the child of nonwhite immigrants, it doesn’t matter what you do — the New Right will still view you as an enemy and as an invader.
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Their wordsI think there aren't many Indians in America right now, and I would like to bring in a lot more 🙋
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Our readingThe purpose of immigration is to benefit the people who already live in the receiving country.
Their wordsA third principle that liberals should embrace is that the purpose of immigration is to benefit the people who already live in the country that is receiving the immigrants. Immigration to America must be for the benefit of Americans.
↗Liberalism needs a new philosophy of immigrationnoahpinion.blog
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Our readingIf America gives up immigration, it will lose one of the key things that has made it great.
Their wordsBut speaking only for my own country, I believe that if America gives up immigration, it will lose one of the key things that has made it great.
↗Liberalism needs a new philosophy of immigrationnoahpinion.blog
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Their wordsimmigration strengthens America CULTURALLY, not just economically
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Their wordsmany immigrants are the type of people who built America and who keep it strong and dynamic
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsA multicultural nation can’t survive as a “salad bowl”, where each group of people maintains its distinctiveness over time.
↗Yes, assimilation is goodnoahpinion.blog 1st of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsThere is no “separate but equal” when it comes to cultures within a nation; if they remain forever separate, they will inevitably be unequal.
↗Yes, assimilation is goodnoahpinion.blog 2nd of 7 in this piece
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Our readingAssimilation should never require an immigrant to give up their religion or their heritage.
Their wordsImmigrants and their children should not be required to forsake every symbol of the old world, abandon their religion, or forget their heritage.
↗Yes, assimilation is goodnoahpinion.blog 4th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsShared life experience beats shared heritage in terms of building the bonds of nationhood.
↗Yes, assimilation is goodnoahpinion.blog 5th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsI believe that the MAGA movement is simply one of America’s periodic nativist backlashes, like the Know-Nothings in the 1850s or the restrictionists of the 1910s.
↗Yes, assimilation is goodnoahpinion.blog 6th of 7 in this piece
- 17 months earlier
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Their wordsAnd those principles obviously aren’t simply pro- or anti-immigration. They are clearly subtler than that.
↗On immigration, what Americans want is democratic controlnoahpinion.blog 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBut if the American people have decreed that a person should not get in, they should not get in.
↗On immigration, what Americans want is democratic controlnoahpinion.blog 2nd of 2 in this piece