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Immigration as Collective Punishment: Open Borders as Revenge

April 30, 2025/11 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

Immigration as Collective Punishment: Part I: Open Borders as Revenge

Mass immigration’s economic, social, and demographic benefits have faltered. Some now see it as punishment for Western colonial history, fueling divisive rhetoric.

Two disturbing trendlines converged over the last decade or so. On the one hand, beneficent arguments for mass immigration as a boon to receiving nations ran out of steam. The economic argument faltered in America, Britain, and elsewhere amidst evidence of net fiscal burdens, real wage suppression, soaring property costs, and sluggish productivity & median GDP growth. The social and cultural arguments in its favor stalled as it has been revealed to increase violent crime rates, diminish social trust, and swing election results. And even the demographic argument that it is necessitated by sub-replacement domestic fertility lost credibility, as evidence mounts that high levels of immigration directly and indirectly exacerbate birthrate decline among the existing population while worsening the fiscal burden of ageing populations.

Deprived of positive pretexts for continuing high levels of low-quality immigration, advocates of indiscriminate free-movement fell back on a darker set of rationales. The most ominous of these views mass migration as a form of collective punishment for the real or imagined sins of European slavery and imperialism. On this view, Americans and Europeans deserve unlimited immigration from the Global South as our comeuppance.

This turn toward immigration-as-punishment intersected with another cultural trend, namely the rise of doctrines of inter-generational collective racial guilt and punishment during the Great Awokening. The logic of this “mass interracial score-settling”, as Jeremy Carl describes it, has as its “common ideological purpose” the construction of “an intellectual and cultural environment to justify the expropriation of land, property, and other wealth from whites while instituting a permanent regime of anti-white employment and legal discrimination”. That expropriation most obviously includes reparations for slavery, which, as Carl notes, are already being paid out to the tune of “trillions of dollars … in the name of welfare programs, set-asides, quotas, affirmative action, and other programs”. It also encompasses a host of other practices with overt or barely concealed motivations of revenge, from the removal of historic portraits and statues on the grounds that they hurt the feelings of other groups, to instances of racially motivated violence, to the practice of so-called land acknowledgments. Although heavily performative at a superficial level, their purpose is serious: to deny any morally legitimate property rights to non-indigenous people as an intellectual precursor to expropriation.

Immigration as Score-Settling 

Together, the exhaustion of positive arguments for open borders and the resurrection of collective racial-guilt theories has fueled the rise of a sort of demographic retributivism. On this view, white majority nations have forfeited the moral right to exclude black and brown bodies due to historic injustices and now they must pay.

Examples of this view now abound in the way the left-wing intelligentsia talks about immigration. …

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11 replies
  1. Jank
    Jank says:
    April 30, 2025 at 4:03 pm

    Dr MacDonald. Please read the article posted below.
    “Civil wars happen, quite naturally, in fractured societies. If a society is not fractured enough, it is sufficiently stable to hold off civil conflict.[however] if society is too fractured, civil conflict is also unlikely.
    While highly fractured societies are unstable, due to their high coordination costs, nobody can gain the upper hand. When insurgency requires coordinating perhaps a dozen factions, a mass movement simply
    cannot gain momentum, and the sovereign authority can play “divide and conquer”, keeping each faction down in a delicate balancing act, Where civil conflict happens is in societies with a moderate amount of
    fragmentation—specifically, in societies in which a previously dominant social majority feels that it is losing its place.
    In this “sweet spot” for civil conflict, the society is fragmented enough to create instability, a feeling of downgrading in much of the population, and disaffected counter-elites who are blocked from social mobility due to the extreme nepotism necessary to hold an elite bloc together under pressure. We are of course in that sweet spot today, all across the West. Western elites are well aware of this, and are actively working to “solve” the problem. The “solution” to the threat of a mass movement will involve one of two approaches: either a) fragmentation can be rolled back, or b) fragmentation can be accelerated. The former approach is what people in the radical right like Martin Sellner have been calling for, in the form of “remigration”; the latter approach is that being advanced by the governance structure of
    Western countries. This is what the Great Replacement is all about: Western elites are deliberately and actively pushing our societies toward being too fractured to explode.”
    Open borders are not punishment, but part of a strategy to prevent an organized front.

    https://imperiumpress.substack.com/p/tribal-war-is-coming-part-i

  2. Joe
    Joe says:
    April 30, 2025 at 6:40 pm

    The underlying and unspoken truth is this…

    The white man creates higher civilization. Higher in trust, prosperity, safety, affluence and discipline. The lower races are not up to these standards – evolutionarily speaking. I know this sounds arrogant and elitist… but, it is true. As a result, the lower races are in a constant state of envy for that which they can never attain nor be. To allow them into our midst is to willingly destroy all that our ancestors fought, sacrificed and died to build for us – their progeny.

    Mother Nature does not reward altruism when it is shared between species. If the higher species practices this virtue toward the lower, then they will surely go extinct. That’s the cold hard truth.

    • Elky
      Elky says:
      May 1, 2025 at 9:37 am

      “If the higher species practices this virtue toward the lower, then they will surely go extinct.”
      I.e. equality/equal outcomes will be achieved!

  3. Fritz
    Fritz says:
    May 1, 2025 at 12:09 pm

    Sick “society”: If a domestic youth is murdered by migrants, there is regularly a deafening silence. If a violent invader is shot by the police, thousands of empathetic leftist and “diverse” sympathizers demonstrate against “racist police violence”.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-police-shooting-black-man-protests-lorenz-a-oldenburg/

    https://media.gettr.com/group4/getter/2025/04/26/13/40fd3a6d-7f51-f890-f33b-f16c719c4509/out.mp4

    Germoney’s new potential “Minister of Justice” talks like a 12-year-old and comes from the multi-culti city of Bremen, which has been irredeemably ruined for decades by the socialists, i.e. her party, the SPD. Her main concern is to “put an end to hatred and hate speech on the Internet”.

    https://media.gettr.com/group8/getter/2025/04/29/09/e7f6d25c-0e8c-8918-6fc4-51c81b27b97b/out.mp4

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Eichwede

    Bochum (city in Ruhr region) enriched by afroid “individual”, who climbs onto roof of dwelling made available to him, throws roof tiles down. Unfortunately, the chair on the chimney, into which he sits to make his dominion clear, does not seem to have fallen to the ground with him.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XIeozqMkpw

    https://media.gettr.com/group7/getter/2025/04/29/19/13e7b694-2746-b888-779b-c07d08b12a79/out.mp4

    More afroid “culture” from America. To be on the safe side, smear chili with a Scoville value of 500,000 on the trailer hitch.

    https://media.gettr.com/group5/getter/2025/04/21/09/4d5b5081-81d5-a83b-77c5-05bbdc8fe7f8/out.mp4

  4. Freddy
    Freddy says:
    May 2, 2025 at 4:14 am

    Calling kids the N-word (and this in the
    presence of other kids) is in fact rather
    Karen-like idiocy. If she’d said “tiny black-
    ly devil”, she’d not have lost her privacy.
    https://occidentaldissent.com/2025/05/01/shiloh-hendrix-drops-n-bomb-in-minnesota-park/

    Fun fact: “Hendrix” comes from Low German.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrix_(surname)

    Jermaine means German sensu Germanic,
    but the “name bearers” are mostly blacks.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jermaine
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensu

    “Tyrone” is a Celtic name from Ireland.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_(name)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQziAomUCT4

    Mixed-race fake virtuoso “Jimi” played his
    last concert in Germany and was booed out.
    https://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimi-hendrix-final-concert/

    Femarn not far from the Angeln peninsula, after which
    the Angles and thus the “language” English was named.
    The “Ger” in German (Gerhard, Gertrud, Gerold, Germar)
    denoted a spear named Ger, the Saxons were named af-
    ter their knife Seax, the Franks after their axe Francisca.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angeln
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seax
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisca

    “They Cloned Tyrone” is the title of one of the count-
    less POC films that are flooding our cinemas at ever
    shorter intervals. As always, the grotty plot revolves
    around the primitive everyday life and dialogues of
    dark-skinned antisocial parasites and petty criminals.
    Tyrone can now appear everywhere at the same time.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Cloned_Tyrone

    The dried up mummy of a steady-stoned Carib-
    bean “freedom fighter” is also being dug up and
    reanimated. So, real cultural highlights and tre-
    ats that no slack-jawed SJW can afford to miss.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley%3A_One_Love
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marley_(surname)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0-11gRzz3o

    Who doesn’t remember Mr. Schwul
    of “Gayniggers from Outer Space”?
    https://www.dict.cc/?s=schwul
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayniggers_from_Outer_Space
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLavEHYxCIk

    “When the rain begins to fall” sang
    Jermaine Jackson with Pia Zadora.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubcWewKfyaw
    https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Der_Formel_Eins_Film

    Zadora has a soft spot for greedy & perver-
    ted Jews: her first marriage was to a typical
    Jewish speculator who caused billions in los-
    ses through fraud and ruined dozens of com-
    panies and financed her film about mother-
    daughter incest (flopped at box office, Zadora
    was honored as “worst actress”). Her second
    husband was a childporn consuming Jew who
    is said to have also sexually assaulted their son.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshulam_Riklis
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_(1982_film)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kaufer

    https://nypost.com/2014/08/03/pia-zadora-fights-back-against-being-a-punchline/
    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/golden-globes-pia-zadora-defends-761222/

    Only intelligent people love “conspiracy theo-
    ries” because only their minds question “official”
    narratives. When even British MSM report that
    Princess Di had to die because she supported
    Palestine, it must be considered how many con-
    spiracies Jews are involved in. Because simply
    their nature (rather unnature) obliges secrecy.

    “In 2014 almost a quarter of the 200 richest Russi-
    ans were of Jewish descent. Personally, I do not be-
    lieve that ‘the Jews’ rule the world or seek sole rule.”
    Such strict mathematical logic makes perfect sense!

    https://diemaechtigstenfamilienderwelt-ch.translate.goog/2020/11/26/russische-milliardare-und-ihre-auslandskontakte/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

    To cement his reputation as genius – a status
    that only libertarian autist “Destiny” was able
    to shake with ease – Striker now mimics the squ-
    eaky Disney voice every hour as a “running gag”.

    When I fell asleep, they were already babbling,
    when (after 9 hours) I woke up they were still
    babbling. So I noticed the beginning and the end.
    https://odysee.com/@WarStrike:a/Episode92:6d3

    The “show” starts with an interview with an
    Irish “national socialist” who, despite his jokey
    appearance, spouts a few intelligent things.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Barett

    However, it was rather a lack of consistency to
    say “I don’t talk to Jews” and then do it anyway.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Grbpv_l5k

    Balogh still using the bad translation of Goeb-
    bel’s quote, though he is supposedly learning
    German (“because Hungarian is so difficult”).

    Goebbels does not say that he wants to “shut” the Jews’
    mouths, but to stuff them up (gestopft), and this means
    in one sense of the word, to smash their faces in. Whe-
    reby Maul refers usually rather to the mouths of animals.

    Proto-Aryan Pajeet (“American”) climbs the holy
    mountain of the fake Aryans. The mention of its
    “dark history” is the entrance fee to Judentube.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pQ3I1pTDKw

  5. Freddy
    Freddy says:
    May 2, 2025 at 6:08 am

    German man has a family with an American wife.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd3Vnzao_ZQ

    “Most charges dropped in far-right [sic!]
    Sylt video probe” https://archive.ph/aJygv

    Surfing might often bring images of California or Hawaii to mind, but Germany also has a fascinating place in the sport’s history. The roots of German surfing trace back to the early 1950s on the North Sea island of Sylt, where lifeguards pioneered a unique approach to wave riding.

    Back then, Sylt’s lifeguards used heavy wooden rescue boards designed for saving lives, not for surfing. These boards lacked fins, leashes, and the modern features we know today. Yet, led by lifeguards like Uwe Drath, they began to ride the waves for fun after their shifts, turning their rescue gear into the first German surfboards.

    This inventive spirit sparked a surfing culture on Sylt that laid the foundation for the sport’s growth across Germany. Nearby on the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn, East Prussian born twin brothers Manfred and Jürgen Charchulla – known as the “Surf Twins” – became pioneers of windsurfing in Germany. Their passion and skill inspired many, including a young blond Californian boy named Robby Naish. https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Surftwins

    Robby Naish visited Germany as a child, spending time on both Fehmarn and Sylt. There, he met the Charchulla twins and local surfers who helped shape his early windsurfing journey. Naish would go on to become a legendary figure in windsurfing, winning his first world championship at just 13 and dominating the sport for decades.

    The legacy of those Sylt lifeguards and the inseparable Charchulla twins lives on. Sylt remains a vibrant surf hotspot in Germany, and the spirit of innovation and adventure that started with those heavy rescue boards still defines the island’s surf culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRWYxSBf4qk

    Kevin Costner is known to have a house on Sylt. Despite his German ancestry, Costner reportedly does not speak German. Sylt’s wild beauty and charm have clearly attracted this international star, adding another layer to the island’s intriguing story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta4AKhO0uZE

    • Freddy
      Freddy says:
      May 2, 2025 at 10:03 am

      Scholli Hansen went from being a drug dealer
      in Costa Rica to a shrimp fisherman in Büsum.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA7GHdCmM0o
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N11HHxi5K0w

    • Freddy
      Freddy says:
      May 2, 2025 at 11:13 am

      The wall-trembling storm god “Wotan” raged here:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQxaLTsXwSc

      But what must our thanks to us now finally sensi-
      tized eyes behold: once again, Amalekite racists
      dress up in traditional costumes and use the place
      to pay homage to their condemnable ceremonies!
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48cNGlQuYj8

      The problem of anti-Semitism, of xenophobia, remains
      ineradicable as long as Amalek exist. The only final so-
      lution to the problem can therefore only be to make the
      Europeans themselves finally disappear. Imperceptibly,
      of course, as the Talmud prescribes. Never again hatred!

  6. Freddy
    Freddy says:
    May 2, 2025 at 11:42 am

    https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/jews-and-judaism-as-a-threat-to-fire

    “The fire began in Eduard Cohen’s cigar factory”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_fire_of_Hamburg

    White supremacists use such cohencidences
    to construct anti-Semitic conspiracy theories!

  7. Freddy
    Freddy says:
    May 2, 2025 at 1:34 pm

    Pommerland ist abgebrannt (Pomerania has burnt
    down) is the title of a famous German kids’s song.

    Thanks to a British noblewoman, Pomerania still
    exists today – in the form of a plush toy-like dog.
    Last Nazi film Kolberg was also about Pomerania.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVJCLnw6KWc

    This young American got to the bottom of his
    Pomeranian roots. A behavior often observed
    in these unfortunate very rootless individuals.
    https://www.youtube.com/@mypomerania/videos

    An American woman marries Austrian,
    turns this circumstance into a resour-
    ceful business concept. Unfortunately
    she made her supposed abilities availa-
    ble to Jews, who use it to cry about their
    oh-so-unjust fate in her last two videos.
    https://www.youtube.com/@germanologyunlocked/videos

  8. Freddy
    Freddy says:
    May 2, 2025 at 3:27 pm

    Propaganda spread by the Jews will always remain: “Whites are bad, and Germans are the worst of them!”

    No Jew ever says: “80 percent of world economy is done by ships with diesel engines. Diesel was German.”

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