Manifesto Destiny: Immigration as Reparations
19th June 2019
This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto by Calcutta-born NYU journalism professor Suketu Mehta takes pro-immigration polemics to their logical conclusion: “Immigration as reparations.” Historically white countries must open their borders because whites have sinned and deserve punishment. But just lie back and think of diversity….
I am reminded of going to see the movie Gandhi with my friend Heinrich, who had a number of uncles who served in the SS during The War. He thought it was a comedy, which from his standpoint it probably was; the only reason that Gandhi’s ‘revolution’ worked was that the colonial power was British and so could be jerked around. He pointed out that if the Germans had been running India, the first time Gandhi tried one of his ‘civil disobedience’ tricks a subaltern would have shot him in the head and left his body by the side of the road, and no more would have been heard about it.