Wilder: "Make Haiti Great Again"

In his piece, "Make Haiti Great Again: Send Haitians Back," John Wilder pokes fun at the "magic dirt" theory of the left while pointing out the hypocrisy of the leftists that were outraged when Trump called Haiti a sh*thole but now whine that it is too dangerous to send any of the refugees back. As Wilder notes, "[t]he real reason [that allowing all Haitians into the U.S. would improve Haiti] is that the thing that makes Haiti bad isn’t its climate, location, or even history.  The thing that really makes Haiti awful is the Haitians." 

    It is something that we need to keep in mind as the various migrant groups try to tug on our heartstrings with stories of mothers and fathers being torn from their families, or try to gin up moral outrage based on fairness or some other false analogy. 

    One of the more recent examples I've seen of the latter is a Breitbart reports on a group calling itself "Sick of ICE" that is supposedly organizing protests against ICE and the general crackdown on illegal aliens. The organization's webpage reportedly states:

    Trump’s vow to carry out “the largest domestic deportation operation in American History” is a declaration of war against all of us. It is not just an attack on our immigrant families, but all of our civil liberties, and all of the gains of the Civil Rights movement. We can’t leave the immigrant community to fight alone; all citizens have a duty to stand up to this assault.

    Trump has already broken up thousands of immigrant families and violently kidnapped our neighbors. He has also tried to strip away our rights to free speech and due process. 

The Civil Rights movement was based on the lie that humans are interchangeable widgets, so it didn't matter if someone was black, white or brown, or came from Ohio, the Congo, or India. But as psychologists studied other peoples, they learned that the WEIRDs (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) are different from other people on very basic issues. As one site summarizes the issue (bold added):

One of the main criticisms of the WEIRD bias is that it limits the cultural applicability of psychological findings. Cultural factors significantly influence cognitive processes, emotional expressions, social behaviors, and moral values. Consequently, theories derived from WEIRD samples may not accurately reflect the experiences and behaviors of individuals from non-WEIRD cultures.

And (bold added):

Research has shown that cognitive and behavioral processes can vary widely across cultures. For example, studies have demonstrated differences in perception, reasoning, and decision-making between Western and non-Western populations. These variations highlight the importance of considering cultural context when interpreting psychological data and developing universal theories.

Another site, quoting from a documentary on WEIRD, relates:

They found that people from Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) societies — who represent as much as 80 percent of study participants, but only 12 percent of the world’s population — are not only unrepresentative of humans as a species, but on many measures they’re outliers. 

In other words, the differences between us and immigrants from the Third World is more than just skin deep, but encompasses cognition, emotions, behavior, and moral values. So when you read a headline like "Germany: After 9 underage girls sexually abused by Syrians at swimming pool, CDU mayor points to ‘hot weather’," together with a statement later in the same article that "sexual assaults have been occurring at the pool for a long time and no efforts were taken to prevent further assaults," you have to understand this is not an aberration but something inherent in Syrians (or Afghans, or Pakistanis, or Africans, or whatever group is being caught at the moment). 

•     More: "How Pakistan’s rape culture led to the UK grooming gangs"--The Spectator.