Is It Racist to Notice That Somali Refugees Have Brought a Crime Wave? – HotAir
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Generally speaking, it’s wrong to judge people based on whether they fit into a category rather than on their individual character. 

Right? If you judge people based on their country or origin, race, or other immutable characteristics, when participation in that category is not directly the cause of some desirable or undesirable trait, it is discrimination. Assuming a young black man is a criminal, for instance, based on the greater propensity of young black men to commit crimes, is painting with too broad a brush. Most young black men are no more inclined to sell drugs or commit violent crimes than those of any other group. 





So why do I, and many other commentators, single out groups like the Somalis as bringing with them all manner of troubles and as being a rather large net negative addition to our society?

Well, first of all, because as a group they HAVE been a huge net negative, just as mass Muslim migration into Western societies has been a disaster. That statement is just a fact, and demonstrably so. Billions of dollars of fraud and corruption have been committed by Somalis, and that is just in Minnesota, and our government and politics have been completely warped by their growing influence in the state. 

Minnesota taxpayers are the largest single source of funding for Somali terrorists, and there is not a single government welfare program that has not been the target of massive fraud by Somalis. 

Mass Muslim immigration in Europe, and to a lesser extent here, has brought with it rape gangs, social discord, and subcultures that are explicitly hostile to the larger social order. 





And, it must be said, these migrants have been invited into our society not on the basis of judging individuals as individuals, but on the basis of their participation in a category. If you let somebody into the country because they are a Somali, not because they are likely to be a good citizen, why is it unfair to kick them out based on the same characteristic, because, as a group, the Somalis are horrible members of society?

I have met many Somalis who seem like nice people, just trying to live a better life and working, as best they can, to fit in. In any personal interaction, I try to judge them based on who they are as individuals. I have never had the pleasure of working with a Palestinian, but I am told that many are smart, ambitious, and disinclined to be terrorists. 

If we vetted people carefully as individuals, it’s likely we would have few problems and that the delta between various immigrants would not be great. 





But we don’t really do that, especially today. And some categories of migrants are much more troublesome or even dangerous than others. 

As a group, migrants from dysfunctional “s**thole countries” bring horrible problems with them and cost societies a lot. Study after study in Europe shows that Middle Eastern migrants bring crime and are huge net drains on social welfare systems for several generations. Migrants from Western countries contribute more than native citizens on average, probably because they bring in skills that are in demand, and migrants from the third world are the most costly, and for multiple generations. 

And that doesn’t include the crime, the slums, the “no-go” zones, and the rape gangs. 

Noticing this is not racism. Arguing that these facts should guide public policy is simply smart policy. It’s not like there aren’t people from around the world who want to immigrate to any Western country, so why do we have preferential policies for those who we know are likely to bring trouble?





If migrants from Germany, the UK, Argentina, and Japan are found to, as a class, bring with them entrepreneurialism and add to the stability and wealth in society, and migrants from Somalia tend to do the opposite, it’s stupid to prefer the latter to the former. 

All human beings as individuals deserve respect, and we are all God’s children. No doubt in Heaven God will sort the wheat from the chaff. 

But civilizations are built on cultures more than anything else. As Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, and other countries have shown, strong and basically healthy cultures can create stable and wealthy societies despite having few resources and even challenging strategic situations. 

As Venezuela and Cuba show, being blessed with abundant resources but a bad culture can create total disasters. 

Everything is downstream from culture. 

It’s not wrong to notice that and make policy based on that, even if a culture overlaps with other categories such as race or religion. Discrimination based on legitimate variables, such as culture, is not only fine but necessary. It’s not racist to exclude people based on being from a corrupt culture, even if that corrupt culture also overlaps with something like race. 





It’s not the race you are excluding, but the culture. We shouldn’t be ashamed of exercising good judgment and acting in self-defense, just as it’s not racism to avoid walking around certain parts of Chicago. 


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