Happy MLK, Jr. Day for those who celebrate, i.e., upper-income white people who work for the government or the biggest most virtuous companies and who therefore get a day off. Black Americans working retail and service jobs will be toiling as usual and at least some Black Americans who work in the college football industry will also be at work.
Our Florida neighbor’s license plate is “UM N1” so we probably don’t have to guess for whom the household will be rooting this evening (I won’t be watching because I need to prepare for our class at MIT):
Speaking of vanity plates, here’s a “stands with Israel” style that you probably couldn’t get in the Queers for Palestine states.
Meanwhile, our county is the world’s largest buyer of Israel’s debt:
Would Dr. MLK, Jr. be out protesting with the Queers for Palestine if he were alive today? Or would he be a Donald Trump supporter because of the negative effects of low-skill immigration on native-born Black Americans? (it is rare to see a Black American trying to stop ICE from detaining and deporting the undocumented)
Dr. MLK Jr. was clearly pro-Israel, and visited Israel. It is well known and I still remember that pre-Clinton Democrat party platform was matching his views.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-883672
Didn’t realize Greenspun’s adopted county had a high jewish population. Other than being near the home religion & a lot of art museums, it’s pretty far away from Greenspun’s day jobs.
Look for “low-kill immigration” in your article. Though I agree, we should keep it as low as reasonably possible
Typo Boi, are you suggesting “immigrants” don’t kill enough blacks because blacks are the predominant killers (8x the rate of whites)? Comprende?
Almost all immigration to the U.S. is low-skill.
> Almost all immigration to the U.S. is low-skill.
Even those with extraordinary ability?
> O-1B visas are for immigrants of “extraordinary ability,” originally designed for acclaimed artists, musicians, athletes, and scholars, But increasingly they’re being handed out to people with a more modern definition of “extraordinary ability”: influencers and OnlyFans creators.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91475983/u-s-visas-for-extraordinary-ability-are-increasingly-going-to-influencers-and-onlyfans-creators
I finally fixed the typo in the original post! It couldn’t be corrected by AI because our software overlords know that every immigrant has tremendous skills and that we are all enriched by each new arrival from, e.g., Somalia.
“Almost all immigration to the U.S. is low-skill.”
Agreed, but… Philip, unless I am seeing something different than you, your article is using the word “kill” rather than “skill”:
“the negative effects of low-kill immigration on native-born Black Americans?”
That’s all I was pointing out and I think people are reading past the typo because they are seeing the word that they expect to be there rather than the word that actually is there.
@TB/II
Right, because it seems like “low-kill” [sic] immigration would have *positive* effects on *all” native-born Americans. Thanks for clearing that up. It still doesn’t explain why they would give preference to an influencer/OnlyFans girl over, say, an MS-13 gang member.
I fixed it, finally! AI can’t fix or flag because AI knows that every immigrant is higher skill than all existing Americans.
Unlike previous years, this year my city here in Maskachu$etts sent a reminder email that trash collection would be delayed by one day due to the MLK holiday. While I am thankful for the reminder, many of my neighbors either didn’t read their email, didn’t receive it, or weren’t aware of the holiday — many of them ended up putting their trash out a day early!