Solsticewitch13's BOS: New York Times Wants to Fix Detroit with a Muslim Civil War

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Just think, this could be Detroit

Detroit is bankrupt, barely has basic services and a stratospheric murder rate. You would think that nothing could possibly make it worse. But you can count on liberals to always find ways to make anything worse. What could make Detroit worse?

How about filling it with people from a country tearing itself apart along religious lines in a bloody civil war that led to the rise of ISIS?

If that can’t fix Detroit, nothing short of an atomic bomb can.

The New York Times has a modest proposal. “Let Syrians Settle Detroit”. And just to further blur the lines between trolling and policy proposals, the illustration featured a masked terrorist in a Keffiyah in Detroit.

Detroit, a once great city, has become an urban vacuum. Its population has fallen to around 700,000 from nearly 1.9 million in 1950. The city is estimated to have more than 70,000 abandoned buildings and 90,000 vacant lots. Meanwhile, desperate Syrians, victims of an unfathomable civil war, are fleeing to neighboring countries, with some 1.8 million in Turkey and 600,000 in Jordan.
Suppose these two social and humanitarian disasters were conjoined to produce something positive.

Isn’t that how it usually works? You combine two disasters to produce something positive.

Let’s say you have Ebola in Africa and earthquakes in Nepal. Just combine the two together by bringing people with Ebola to Nepal.
Or what if you take the radioactive waste from Fukushima and dump it in Haiti? Or importing meth to parts of Africa ravaged by AIDS?

The possibilities are limitless. If we just combine enough disasters together, good things are bound to happen.

Either that or people will finally realize that liberals are congenitally insane and lock them all inside the ruins of Chernobyl covered by a magical seal so that they never escape again.

What confidence can we have that traumatized war refugees can be transformed into budding American entrepreneurs? We cannot know for sure.

We cannot know… but let’s do it anyway. What’s the worst that could happen? ISIS taking over Detroit. We’ll barely notice.

Refugees resettled from a single war zone have helped revitalize several American communities, notably Hmong in previously neglected neighborhoods in Minneapolis, Bosnians in Utica, N.Y., and Somalis in Lewiston, Me.

Yes, Somalis have really revitalized Lewiston’s welfare services, its gang problem and they’ve done wonders for America’s terrorism problem.

Just think of how revitalized Detroit will be when it has tens of thousands of more people on welfare, more gang violence and ISIS.

I’m not sure even Detroit can handle that much vitality.

President Obama and Congress would have to agree to lift this year’s refugee ceiling by 50,000… The State Department, which handles overseas processing of refugees, would need to open offices at the camps in Jordan and Turkey, determine eligibility and administer a lottery for resettlement. Homeland Security, which controls the borders, would have to carry out accelerated security checks

Security checks? Why even bother with them at all. We’re bringing in 50,000 bona fide entrepreneurs.

Finally, grants from the federal government and from philanthropic foundations would be needed to help the local Arab-American community supply social services for the newcomers.

But… but I thought they were budding entrepreneurs. Why do they need “social services”? Maybe when they’ve spent a decade on welfare, their entrepreneurial spirit will finally bud?

Refugees are by no means the only source for the regeneration of Detroit. Its more settled populations, including African-Americans and Latinos, are bringing great energy and resources to the city’s renewal.

If African-Americans and Latinos are already renewing Detroit, what’s the problem? Shouldn’t Detroit have been renewed by now?

But Syrians would bring new vigor and catalyze its nascent recovery.

Sure, just look at the vigor they brought to Aleppo, Idlib and Kobani.

And that’s the odd thing. Why haven’t all these amazing Syrian entrepreneurs with their fantastic vigor taken Syria to the next level?

We never seem to hear proposals for bringing Hong Kong or Singapore’s entrepreneurs over to revitalize American cities. No, it’s always, “Let’s bring people from a bunch of places that are on fire and killing each other to revitalize America”.

Because they really care about ‘revitalizing’ America until it looks like those countries that are on fire.

“Some skeptics will point to the difficulties of assimilation, noting past concerns in the Detroit area about the integration of Iraqi refugees. But there is no evidence to suggest that the Detroit area is a powder keg of anti-immigrant sentiment.”

Tellingly the authors can’t imagine the possibility that the problem might with the immigrants, rather than anti-immigrant sentiment in Detroit.

They’re even less capable of grasping the fact that people currently killing each other over religious differences might not want to assimilate.

More important, both parties can agree that resettling destitute, innocent refugees is consistent with America’s moral and ethical commitments;

Shouldn’t our moral and ethical commitments put our own people first instead of dumping murderous lunatics on Detroit, which already has its own murderous lunatics?