Here are two questions I occasionally ask people who are either “liberal” on immigration issues or are unconcerned about those issues:
1) Can you name a violent conflict anywhere in the world which is the result of multi-culturalism and diversity?
No one ever has any trouble coming up with a laundry list of them, though the “liberals” will try to “explain” that the “root causes” of all these conflicts are poverty, lack of education, the “legacy of white racism”, or whatever. Thus, they’ll assert that the Basque seperatist movement in Spain isn’t caused by ethnic differences, but by the fact that Basques earn less money than Spaniards, or that the genocide in Rwanda was somehow a vestige of white racist colonialism, or the frequent bloodbaths in India between Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims are leftover violence from the days of British rule. Of course, their arguments are ludicrous, but the real point is that there is no shortage of examples of violence in areas which are multi-cultural and diverse.
Then there’s the second question:
2) Can you name a violent conflict anywhere in the world that is the result of a lack of multi-culturalism and diversity?
Ask that one and “liberals” will get that deer in the headlights expression real fast. They’ll stammer that you must be a “racist” and quickly depart.
The fact is, multi-culturalism and “liberal” style diversity trigger violence, discord, balkanization, and other negative happenings.
Take Japan for an example. It’s one of the least diverse heavily-populated countries on earth. It’s also one of the least internally violent. What would happen if Japan took in tens of millions of immigrants from the Third World? If “liberals” are correct, Japan would rise to new heights because “diversity is a strength”. But does anyone really believe that? Just think it over and imagine what Japan would look like and be like if that happened.
Which is an especially ridiculous argument to make (and yes, I have heard lefties in Europe make it), as the the Basque provinces are among the wealthiest in Spain. Bilbao has recovered from deindustrialization quite well, thank you, and los Vascos can again thumb their noses at places like Nuevo Castilla, to say nothing of Andalucia.