Adam Serwer

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.

So it's not true.

It has like a logical sense.

It's not true.

But it's also like just not true on the ground in Minneapolis.

What is so moving about the sort of neighborism there is that everybody says it doesn't matter who you are.

It doesn't matter what gender you are.

It doesn't matter what race you are.

It doesn't matter what religion you are.