> Killing hundreds of thousands is just the cost of doing business, apparently.
And always has been. The U.S. has been aggressive in using "military diplomacy" since the Spanish-American war, if not earlier. And when you're the dominant military power in the world, that's probably the winning play.
> They aren't low-income immigrants, they're immigrants who are paid low incomes.
They're paid low incomes because they have no education and little skills. Yes, their experience matches that of the Irish, the Polish, etc, but back then people weren't bashing the U.S. educational system for the fact that poor Irish immigrants weren't doing well in school. This is not an argument against immigration--its an argument against papering over the fundamentally different demographic factors at play in the U.S. when condemning its education system relative to that of Western European countries.
> Your arguments basically boil down to race being a huge factor, but maybe it's more a case of racism than race.
There is nothing racist about pointing out that the U.S. faces sociological challenges that most western European countries do not. It's the policies that led to those sociological challenges that are racist (slavery, segregation, white flight, the drug war).
> ...back then people weren't bashing the U.S. educational system for the fact that poor Irish immigrants weren't doing well in school...
Back then it was okay to bash them for just "being Irish" and there wasn't much of an education system to criticize.
The demographic challenges the US faces are not unlike those in Spain, Britain, France, or any country that's had to absorb a portion of its colonial population.
The US seems to favor hyper-segregation, where you have schools that are 99% black and others that are 99% white. Integrated schools, by and large, simply don't exist.
And always has been. The U.S. has been aggressive in using "military diplomacy" since the Spanish-American war, if not earlier. And when you're the dominant military power in the world, that's probably the winning play.
> They aren't low-income immigrants, they're immigrants who are paid low incomes.
They're paid low incomes because they have no education and little skills. Yes, their experience matches that of the Irish, the Polish, etc, but back then people weren't bashing the U.S. educational system for the fact that poor Irish immigrants weren't doing well in school. This is not an argument against immigration--its an argument against papering over the fundamentally different demographic factors at play in the U.S. when condemning its education system relative to that of Western European countries.
> Your arguments basically boil down to race being a huge factor, but maybe it's more a case of racism than race.
There is nothing racist about pointing out that the U.S. faces sociological challenges that most western European countries do not. It's the policies that led to those sociological challenges that are racist (slavery, segregation, white flight, the drug war).