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Bill Kristol Says ‘Lazy' White Working Class Should Be Replaced By ‘New Americans'
2017-02-09
[Daily Caller] Weekly Standard editor-at-large Bill Kristol said Tuesday afternoon that the white working class should be replaced by immigrants as they have become "decadent, lazy" and "spoiled."

"Look, to be totally honest, if things are so bad as you say with the white working class, don’t you want to get new Americans in?" Kristol told author Charles Murray during an event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute titled "It Came Apart: What’s Next for a Fractured Culture." Murray recently wrote a book, entitled "Coming Apart," which focuses on the cultural separation between the wealthiest and most educated white Americans and the poorest and least educated white Americans.

Before delving into his theory about replacing the white working class, Kristol said that he hopes "this thing isn’t being videotaped or ever shown anywhere. Whatever tiny, pathetic future I have is going to totally collapse." The event was filmed by AEI, but as of press time is marked "unlisted" on the think tank’s YouTube channel, so that it doesn’t come up in search results.
Posted by:Besoeker

#24  Thanks. I hit what I aim at... unlike my stormtroopers.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-02-09 21:39  

#23  re: #20 49 pan, embrace the power of "and".

re #19, been there done that also. There had to be a licensed electrician on site first thing in the morning to turn the sump pump on and again at 4:00 to turn it off.
Guess what he did in between.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-02-09 19:35  

#22  Darth, not unlike many here on the Burg, usually hits what he's aiming for.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-09 17:09  

#21  Darth nailed it. He is the problem; Not the lazy white working class.
Posted by: Blackbeard Glutle8675   2017-02-09 16:55  

#20  The Khmer Rouge said this about all adults in Cambodia and we all know how that ended. These folks are full blown an facist or stupid.
Posted by: 49 pan   2017-02-09 16:49  

#19  waitingfor the person allowed to do the thing that needed to be done to get there and do it. Been there. Back in '82 I was working at a construction site when there was a thunderstorm just before noon. Several of us in a trailer set up to make changes to drawings. A circuit breaker tripped and we had to sit in the dark for 3 hours because we weren't allowed to re-set the breaker. That was an electricians job.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2017-02-09 16:24  

#18  Hearkening back to the 1970s, when the steel and auto manufacturing unions had connived with management to have things so hamstrung by rules that the workers only worked about 60% of their shift, the rest of the time being spent waiting for the person allowed to do the thing that needed to be done to get there and do it. My father-in-law worked in a Bethleham Steel plant that closed because of that, directly throwing 10,000 out of work, plus as I recall another 20,000 or so of outside support jobs -- suppliers and pubs, etc.

But the 1970s are now half a century in the past, and for the most part that arrangement between powerful unions and their company management is, too.

He also doesn't say what to do with the folks being replaced? Welfare until they die? Pretty heartless.

I'm afraid yes to all that.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-02-09 16:16  

#17  President shuts down coal. Coal country workers are unemployed in large numbers. Bill Kristol calls them "decadent, lazy, and spoiled"

Seems to be something missing in this picture.

He also doesn't say what to do with the folks being replaced? Welfare until they die? Pretty heartless. I bet he would never say such a thing about African Americans for fear of being torn apart.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-02-09 12:29  

#16  The only white folk he see's are liberal "journalists".
Posted by: Nero White 3083   2017-02-09 12:23  

#15  If you ever see Bill Kristol knee him in the balls for me.
Posted by: 3dc   2017-02-09 11:43  

#14  Keep talking that way, Bill, and we'll keep voting for Trump.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-02-09 11:26  

#13  Real Capitalism would bankrupt the lazy Kristol and his Lackeys.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-02-09 09:55  

#12  "Look, to be totally honest, if things are so bad as you say with the white working class, don’t you want to get new Americans in?"

How about a new America? They did in 1776. Got a new government that represented them, not London.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-02-09 09:00  

#11  Anyone of reasonable intelligence and who paid attention in high school science classes can educate themselves on any area they choose thru the internet.

Formal tertiary qualifications are an anachronism unless you have a future career as an academic.

But future demand for them will be far less.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-02-09 08:32  

#10  One thing I do see in the "White, working class" is a lack of respect for education on the part of some of its members.

Given what "education" became nowadays - while the hell not?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-02-09 08:13  

#9  Sounds like we need to get rid of our lazy, white elite class more like it.

The white working class are some of the hardest working people I know, along with many other "races" that work with them.

Bill Kristol is a worthless, lazy piece of shit.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-02-09 07:58  

#8  In the early 20th century Western nations had not yet instituted the massive internal redistribution systems known today as the welfare state.

Back then emigration/immigration was a sink-or-swim proposition. Where immigration made no economic sense it did not happen.

Immigration that amounts to immigrants tapping into domestic redistribution systems, perhaps even transferring part of the welfare payments to their home countries as remittances isn't viable.

See Brexit&Trump.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2017-02-09 07:37  

#7  Can we get rid of the Kristol elites and replace them?

I've never been a believer in confiscatory taxes on the rich but the likes of Soros, Steyr and the #NeverTrumpers have thinking about the benefits of draining all assets from these vipers.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-02-09 07:31  

#6  since disgraced princeling and #nevertrumper Bill Kristol inherited and didn't earn any prestige, he should STFU and continue slinking away with that mirthless smirk. F&ck him in the earhole. Loser
Posted by: Frank G   2017-02-09 07:10  

#5  One thing I do see in the "White, working class" is a lack of respect for education on the part of some of its members. There is still a lingering distrust, or even disparging of education. Note I said some, not all. I think some of this comes from the fact that political elites on both sides and other educated professionals who largely associate with their own see the working poor, the working class and even trades people as knuckle dragging, wife beating, "hold my beer" rednecks.
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2017-02-09 06:24  

#4  While the culture at large has become decadent and spoiled,

In the defense of young people, they have been told for decades that 'higher education' is the goal, not LABOR.

Process has overtaken production, and our educational system is not the only one stricken with the affliction.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-09 06:10  

#3  While the culture at large has become decadent and spoiled, singling out small business owners and working class people really, really misses the mark.

Importing more people from cultures that value work and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" even less than we currently do isn't the answer.
Posted by: no mo uro   2017-02-09 05:59  

#2  Yep. Lets import a few million Chinese.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-02-09 03:22  

#1  How can we possibly concentrate on proper hound breeding if we're constantly fumbling with scullery maid replacements ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-09 02:34  

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