Victor Davis Hanson just dropped the single most definitive explanation for the chaos in Belfast and cities across the West.
In two minutes flat, he exposed how DEI, open borders and failure to assimilate have created a powder keg thatβs now exploding.
HANSON: βItβs a reminder that DEI or racial chauvinism, ethnic chauvinism combined with open borders and mass immigration from illiberal societies is a recipe for disaster.β
βAnd nobody condones the counter-riots but when you bring in people from antithetical cultures and you tell them upon arrival they donβt have to acculturate, integrate or assimilate but they have grudges against their hosts because they feel that they are victimized and you lavish social entitlements upon them and you make them exempt from any consequences of their illiberal behavior, then you get what weβve seen there.β
βWeβve got to remember, both in the United States and in Europe, especially the U.K., weβre 60 years, three generations from the civil rights acts and their versions of them.β
βSo weβve got three generations of people in their 40s 50s and 60s that grew up with reverse discrimination and they didnβt know anything about segregation or institutionalized racism.β
βAll they know is that their job opportunities were curtailed because there was this new idea of equality of result.β
βWhere people based on their skin color or ethnic origins or whether they were migrants or something, they had preferential treatment and yet they were paying for the sins of prior generations.β
βThatβs what they felt.β
βAnd then finally there was a class element to it.β
βThe elites crafted this system to bring in constituents dependent on state largesse but they were never subject to the consequences of our own terrible ideology because they had the money and the zip codes and the resources to protect themselves from that kind of violence that we saw.β
βThey made it worse by insulting the White working class as if they are illiberal and neanderthal, when they created the conditions and they were immune from them and now they donβt know what to do because they realize itβs blowing up in their face.β
βBoth there and in the United States.β