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Culture War Roundup for the week of July 3, 2023

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Again, this is a non-problem that you are inventing to justify your racist preferences.

Processing visa applications is not rocket science. You have a set of criteria applicants have to meet, the applicant has to supply you with adequate proof that they meet that criteria, if they don't you reject them.

But ok, let's assume this is an especially cognitively demanding task that requires high quality public servants. So you hire those people, offering whatever wages you need to get them, and set application fees at a level that covers their wages. That might reduce application numbers, but that's not a real problem.

It's also not a problem that you're taking high quality workers from other sectors of the economy, because doing it allows you to import more high-quality workers to replace them. The Nigerian genius that would have been rejected under your preferred policy gets to come in and do good things.

There is no practical constraint that requires us to put a blanket ban on people of certain races.

Not at all. It seems that there are few assumptions that you make - like that there is universal right to apply to move to a country.

I come from the other way - there is need for additional X people in my country and there are different places from where we can pull them.

Of course it makes sense to dig where the vein is rich to get to X. If you overlook a nugget here or there - tough luck for the nugget.

You cannot be racist to non citizens that are outside of your country because there is no obligation to view them as equal.

It seems that there are few assumptions that you make - like that there is universal right to apply to move to a country.

I have not made any assumption of the sort. I'm arguing purely from a selfish destination country perspective.

You don't need to "dig where the vein is rich" - you don't need to dig at all. You just set your criteria at a level where you get about the number of new immigrants you want. If you get too many, raise the standard. Too few, lower it.

If those who do not meet the standard you have set choose to apply anyway, that's not a cost of wasted effort for you - it's a wealth transfer to your country from them paying their application fee for no benefit.

Adding racism to this process does not improve it in any way.

You cannot be racist to non citizens that are outside of your country because there is no obligation to view them as equal.

What a ridiculous statement. Of course you can be racist to foreigners. The White Australia Policy was an explicitly racist policy - and this is true regardless of whether you think it was a good policy or not.

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