We shouldn't have to live like this
... We shouldn’t have to live like this. We shouldn't have to live like this. We shouldn't. . . . I wasn’t unaware that my mantra is popular among the very-online Right on both sides of the Atlantic...
... diversity stress or migration fatigue: the pervasive anxiety that attends life in societies buffeted by too much migration and too much diversity. Too much defined as the point at which assimilation falters and majority-minority distinctions evaporate...
Diversity stress arises from having to constantly negotiate housing-, services-, and street-level incohesion: as we navigate linguistic barriers, normative differences, sheer unfamiliarity, and the potential for misunderstanding, the position is stressful, even if the outcome is relatively “harmless”... As the French geographer and urban theorist Christophe Guilluy has noted, people in such societies "need to manage, day in, day out, a thousand and one ethno-cultural questions while trying not to get caught up in hatred."
It's important to talk about diversity stress because it's much less visible than spectacular cases of violence like the attempted beheading of Stephen Ogilvie by a Sudanese migrant in Belfast this week...
What this framing misses is the systemic, low-grade diversity stress that afflicts much of the population as a result of mass migration, and which goes a long way toward explaining why seemingly "isolated" cases can trigger such ferocious eruptions of intercommunal violence...
In reality, diversity stress isn't isolated - it's omnipresent...
Finally, there's the presence of burkas and niqabs among Muslim women on the streets and the underground, as well as their Asian medical equivalent, the protective face mask. Such face coverings are normative in parts of the Muslim world and East Asia, respectively, but they aren't normative in the West... their very non-normativeness can be profoundly unsettling...
Without a clear majority - without a kind of social regency, which needn't be racial - we end up with what one California historian called the “Blade Runner scenario,”...
Diversity stress may be difficult to quantify. But it can be rigorously conceptualized as a form of negative externality or transaction cost that must be reckoned in any cost-benefit analysis about mass migration...
We shouldn't have to live this way...
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Savages vs. Civilization, by Kurt Schlichter, Townhall, 17 June 2026:
Karmelo Anthony -his first name sounds like some off-brand 99 Cent Store nougat confection - is going to prison for 35 years, and he is relatively lucky. He is lucky he does not live in a society that treats monsters appropriately. A civilized society does not tolerate his brand of sociopathy. It executes such criminals—not only as righteous retribution and not only as an example to others, but as an act of societal hygiene. For a millennium, Europe hanged, beheaded, or otherwise dispatched about 1 percent of its male population every year for various crimes, and you know what? After a while, there were not that many more criminals left...
There is a culture clash in America going on between models of public behavior. The primarily European model of public consideration for others is one in which you do not try to dominate public spaces and where you are aware of and considerate of other people who are present. And then there is the Third World model, which we are all experiencing more and more, and we are getting pretty damn tired of it. That is one where interactions in public spaces are a test of power. Can you be obnoxious and get away with it?...
We are seeing this a lot lately in various forms. How about the idiots who think it is a great idea to turn on their phones' speakers and have loud conversations in public? We have reached the point on airplanes where we must remind people that they need to use headphones if they are going to be listening to music or videos. Were these people raised by wolves?...
... many of these people are looking for trouble. They want it. And normal people have a decision to make. They can let it go, but then the troublemaker wins...
... people in positions of power in our society want you, as a normal, civilized person, to suffer at the hands of degenerates...
You can either have a civilized society, or you can have a Third World society and everything that comes along with it...
We keep hearing about how a multicultural society is wonderful, but it is not wonderful in the sense that you cannot have competing cultures. You cannot have one culture of civilized behavior and another culture of savagery coexisting...
Don't underestimate the potential viciousness of the backlash that is on the way...