Adam Serwer

You can think it's wrong, but there's a logical progression to it.

Here's the thing.

It's wrong.

We know it's wrong because we can see in Minneapolis, we can see these communities of people who say, you are my neighbor, whether you were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu,

You are my neighbor and I'm going to protect you.

I'm going to walk your kids to the bus stop so that they, you know, because I know you can't go outside.

I'm going to bring you food if you need to stay at home.

I'm going to help you pay your rent.

You know, if I see ice, I'm going to blow my whistle or I'm going to take out my camera and start filming.

I mean, when you look at the death of Alex Priddy.

The reason that we are able to discount fully the lies that were told about the circumstances of his death is that there were so many people filming from so many different angles.

I mean, apart from Vance's argument being wrong in practice,

in my view, wrong, period.

I mean, what you're actually saying... And smug and annoying.

...that the pace of immigration might help people assimilate better.

Maybe.

Sure.

Maybe.

But, you know, it's a little weird to say that when, like, you consider that, like, a substantial amount of, you know, the white population in the United States was segregated into ethnic enclaves where people only spoke their original language, you know, for much of the late 19th and early 20th century, and it turned out okay.

And what we have here is like immigrants are actually assimilating much faster than in that period, like much faster, like second, third generation, they only speak English.