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Despite the ultra-abundant color you added to your screed, aren't you simply preaching to the choir? This basically comes down to usual pro-eugenics stance, the merits of which are well known. To strongman the opposition, I would say that your solution is probably impractical as there are only so many immigrants a country can take in at once, due to issues of providing adequate housing and scaling up healthcare and such, and also only so many immigrants of 'good worth' who are willing to immigrate, especially in scenarios where housing is hugely insufficient and they must pay hefty premiums on their first home. Also, there are likely to be hidden disadvantages to ultra-diverse societies that mirror the current disadvantage you are noting with regard to the British riots; see the BLM riots, Paris riots, and so forth that have occurred in high diverse areas. So it is unlikely that the issue of 'underclass' rioting will go away if only partial eugenic solutions you are proposing are implemented. Furthermore, ethnic division might remain persistent owing to probable ethnogenesis events caused by intermingling. In order to succeed in the goal of reducing the underclass, even greater eugenic efforts would be required, ones that could be scaled up to an extreme degree, and the ethnic aspects you find disagreeable are probably ineradicable and largely based on narcissism.
Replacing local proles with foreign ubermench works so long as the ubermench are superior enough to supplant the proles but inferior enough to remain subservient to the whims of those who imported the ubermench.
The filter thus becomes the selection entity, and the selection entities are self-motivated to advance their own specific interests and not those of 'greater society' or whatever truism we wish to pretend exists. Family reunification just wants to flood the land with their kin, employers want cheap labour, refugee advocates want to prove the success of their project. The only people at the levers who exercise any discretion in filtering migrants are the civil servants, and they are optimized to do the job and fuck off with minimal trouble, so the only pressure they face is whichever idiot is screaming at them to let in every single mirpuri in the valley. Is it any wonder then that migration is so endlessly broken?
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