So in other words, yes, your only proof is your gut feeling and your personal desires about it.
Care to comment on the point that Franklin goes on to describe all non-English and non-Saxons as “Swathy”? It tends to undercut your argument that it was a simple slip, which still has no real backing.
Yes because racism is closely related to nazism and klu klux klan.
What the media did in the 60s was to extend the definition of a racist. All of a sudden it was racist not to change the ethnic status quo of one’s country.
:dubious: No, it remained racist to object to changes in the ethnic status quo of one’s country. It always was racist, after all. The drafters of the Immigration Act of 1924, whose stated purpose was to preserve America’s character as a North-European white man’s country, would not have gone green at the word “racism,” they would’ve said, “Yeah, so?” What happened in the 1960s was not that this or that became newly defined as “racist”, but that racism became much less defensible.
Indeed.
So you’re acknowledging that the public has spoken on this issue, and that they sided against you?
I think Franklin never had seen a typical tall, blue-eyed, blond Swede like me. If he had, he would have been as impressed as Ibn Fadlan:
Viking Answer Lady Webpage - How tall were the Vikings?
This “specialist” seems to be impressed too:
It’s by surname, is it? What if you’re like a friend of mine from college, and are half Dutch, half Mexican, have a Dutch surname, grew up in the US, looked white, was an atheist? Is he a desirable Northwestern European, or not? Which of these attributes determines whether he’s Northwestern European or not?
Part of the problem is that the U.S. was not just “a North-European white man’s country” in 1924: about 10% of the population was African American (or Negro, as they would have said then), but they did not set up quotas so that 10% of immigrants would come from West Africa to preserve that part of “America’s character”.
In addition, Chinese were barred from migrating to the U.S. between 1885 and 1943, despite earlier Chinese migration to the U.S. (particularly to California), so that was another part of “America’s character” that immigration law wanted to exclude.
The journalists (and Hollywood) were using “racism” in a dishonest way in order to get public support for their agenda – and succeeded. The American People lost, big time, accordning to Robert Putnam’s research.
How bizarre that the public uncritically accepted what a couple of journalists said. I agree this is a much simplier explanation than the crazy idea that public opinions changed over time.
Far be it from me to assert what he had seen or not, but if this is the best counter you can provide, count me among the unimpressed.
Since he included the Germans among the Swarthy (even the blond haired, blue eyed version), I can only assume Franklin was not basing his judgment solely on appearance. One anecdote from somebody who had never encounter any Scandinavians can hardly be used to justify the response of a person who had, in all likelihood, met the people of several nations and backgrounds in either Boston or Philadelphia and still held to some misguided notion of inherent English superiority.
But nice try.
You’ve stated that several times, about immigrants not being able to assimilate. It’s simply not correct.
It was not only “a couple of journalists”. The Frankfurt School commandeered most of the American mass media, and used this cartel to infect the minds of Americans.
:dubious: And just what did they call “racism” that is not? (Remember, racially discriminatory immigration policy is racism by definition.)
How exactly did they do that?
What “cartel”? It is only very recently that one can speak of an American media cartel, or cartels. And any dishonest influences in it don’t come from Marxist academics, they come from MBAs in suits who can hire and fire the editors.
“The ideal Aryan is blond like Hitler, tall like Goebbels, and handsome like Goering!” 
It’s getting difficult to keep up with the increasing goofiness of these arguments. Marxists do not run the U.S. media (most of the media is run by very successful capitalists) and journalists and Hollywood are not capable of transmitting a unified message like this. You are trying (vainly) to convince people that the media and Hollywood got together despite all their competing interests, decided to redefine something that everyone understood, and pulled it off in a very short time. At no time in history has any group won over the American public like that. Can you imagine what the world would look like if it were actually possible to advertise that successfully?
Why would “the media” and “Hollywood” want to do this? It would require a good deal of effort and resources, and people don’t usually do things that require a good deal of effort unless there’s some benefit for them in it. Corporations are even less likely than people to do stuff for no benefit to themselves.
28% with origins outside the country, of which a significant portion are white, makes the city “full of non-whites”? The city is still 72% ethnic Norwegian and probably well over 3/4 white.
I’d hate to hear what you think of my hometown.
Define “Western”.
In most of Europe there are no restrictions on immigration within – a citizen of any such country may freely cross borders and live and work in any other. Although Norway is not a member of the EU, it is still part of the European Economic Area by separate agreement.
Additionally, the UK’s immigration policy towards people from Commonwealth countries, while not unrestricted, is relatively relaxed. This has much to do with history. I imagine some other European countries, particularly France, also have some sort of relationship with certain former colonies that provides for a lot of immigration. Thus, you have people moving from India to the UK to elsewhere in Europe (perhaps Oslo), or from Algeria to France to elsewhere in Europe (perhaps Amsterdam).
I think it’s a little racist to be “shocked” by that.
Hawaii is pretty diverse and contains a large number of white people. No one would be shocked to see you. But they might be shocked by your presumptuousness.
Because they are Leftists! If the average American found out that Political Correctness is a form of Marxism, different from the Marxism of the Soviet Union but Marxism nonetheless, it would be in trouble. The next American Renaissance needs to reveal the man behind the curtain - old Karl Marx himself.