Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Why Western Liberals Hate Orban's Hungary & Why Conservatives Have Embraced It." video.

  1. How do you know when you have too many immigrants to assimilate? When you have shops with signs that are not in English. As long as there are shops with signs that are not in English, immigration should be closed.
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  2. "The job of the civil service is not to rule society, it is to run society" Still missed the mark -- their job is to SERVE society, as the name implies.
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  3.  @adrian_V99  Haven't the Welsh finally (after 800 years or so) gotten their signage in their own local language?
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  4.  @adrian_V99  I'm not sure we're talking about the same kind of changes. I think that if someone's immigrating to England because England is a better place to live than where they came from, it makes a lot of sense for them to try to be more like the English. Seriously, what else makes England a better place to live? The weather? As far as Wales goes, if someone's moving to Wales but not taking on the Welsh language or trying to be more Welsh, there's another name for it: an invasion.
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  5.  @sirrathersplendid4825  Isn't pronouncing things exactly as spelled something the English do to the French, to make fun of them?
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  6.  @khar12d8  English signs are an inexact (but on the main, reliable) measure of whether people know English, or know someone who can help them navigate English signage as they picked up English (and benefited from what finite resources there were, to help them learn.) In a healthy English society where immigrants are being properly assimilated, everyone would be able to get by this way without any problems. If there are areas where the signs aren't in English, on the other hand, that indicates that there are large masses of population who have not assimilated, may not even be interested in assimilating, and are being aided and abetted in their own alienation by shopkeepers (and politicians) who cater to it. It's divisive and unhealthy. If you get into a situation where you have multiple generations who fail to learn English, you end up with a terrible problem where the younger generation is too Anglicized to fit in back in the Old Country (as Americans call countries of origin), but are nowhere near capable of successfully navigating English society. These are problems that thoughtless pro-immigration cause, when they advocate for levels of immigration that are too high. They should be ashamed of themselves for not thinking through what they are proposing, and how they are trapping people they claim to want to "help".
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