Ron Unz and The American Conservative
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Posted by Tom on January 29, 2010 at 12:00:49
Ron Unz, Unzism, and American DeclineConservative email lists today teemed with angry messages about a recent article. Over at the American Conservative, Ron Unz, the neoliberal publisher of the American Conservative (since the departure of Patrick J. Buchanan and Taki Theodoracopulos), has penned a rather politically correct piece criticizing conservatives for criticizing Hispanic crime.
Although Unz makes a couple valid points, his piece conveniently overlooks many findings, such as:
“In total, blacks had the highest incarceration rate at 7.2 times the [nonHispanic] white rate, followed by Hispanics, at 2.9 times the white rate. [American] Indians and Pacific Islanders were imprisoned at about twice the white rate….”
Or crime rates in Los Angeles:
"Blacks make up about 11% of the city’s population but account for 38% of all homicide victims and 29% of suspects, according to the statistics. By contrast, whites make up 30% of the population but account for just 6% of homicide victims and 2% of suspects. Latinos make up 47% of the population and constitute 50% of homicide victims and 66% of suspects."
Unz also dismisses the phenomenon of mestizo gangs, for which there is overwhelming evidence.
Unz’s article, however, is unsurprising, as Unz has a long history of supporting mass immigration. Steve Sailer wrote back in 2000 of “Unzism – the (new) doctrine of American Decline,” underscoring Unz’s support of two policies:
(1) “a strong and forthright stand” in favor of mass immigration
and
(2) ending bilingual education.
Unz’s career reflects this bifurcated tendency. In 1994, Unz opposed California Proposition 187 to deny legal services to illegal immigrants, and in 1998, he sponsored California Proposition 227, which aimed to change the state’s bilingual education.
For patriots of the West, however, Unzism is the exact opposite of the course we should chart.
(1) We should seek to end all immigration from the Third World, which is driving down American wages and changing the historic (European) character of the United States.
and
(2) We should do everything in our power to discourage illegal immigrants from learning English. A cursory historical survey will show that anytime large groups of uneducated foreigners speak a new language, they will simplify and degrade the adopted language. The mestizo populations of Central and South America already have debased Spanish. Do we really want these people to transform the language of Beowulf, Chaucer and Shakespeare into a mestizo Spanglish?