‘I think we need these [Asian] people’
Brown University professor, Glenn Loury, has called for the U.S to import more Asian workers because Americans are “mediocre laggards.”
In a December 20 conversation with Amy Wax, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Loury said, “I think we need these [Asian] people.”
“Let them come.”
“I mean, in fact, that’s the only way we’re going to survive the challenge of the Chinese behemoth going forward another generation or two, because if I look at what’s going on in the legacy population — white and black — of the United States of America.”
“I see a lot of mediocrity, I see a lot of laggardliness, I see a lot of decay and corruption and so forth, of people not realizing the full human potential.”
“I don’t know what the alternative is.”
“Think about what you’re saying,” Wax responded.
“Glenn, we’ve got the whole heartland!
“We can’t just kind of give up … [on] this whole heartland population, okay?”
“This is the population, the descendants of people that built this country, that conceived this country, that thought of the basic compact and the basic paradigm and the fundamental ideas of this country for a couple of centuries.”
“And now you’re basically saying, they’re spent, it’s over for them.
“They’ve sunk into mediocrity and indifference.”
“Well, I agree those [problematic] things are happening. But why are they happening? What can we do to revitalize?
“Can we revitalize this — let’s just say it — this mainly white population?”
Earlier this year, Biden signed an executive order denying state and local governments the power to reject refugees being dropped off into their towns and communities.
As Neon Nettle reported:
The previous policy under Donald Trump (Executive Order 13888 of September 2019) gave power to state and local governments to decide if they have the capacity to provide refugees a pathway to become self-sufficient.
Biden’s new executive order (EO) suggested that the federal government consults with American communities about refugee resettlement.
Biden’s “Executive Order on Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs to Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration” noted:
Through the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), the Federal Government, cooperating with private partners and American citizens in communities across the country, demonstrates the generosity and core values of our Nation while benefiting from the many contributions that refugees make to our country.