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Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Unassimilated Immigrants Will Make a Failed State in the United States’ 

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Jack Fowler:  A 26-year-old sub-Saharan African, Benedict Chinedu Ogbodiegwu, I’m sure I’m saying that wrong, allegedly murdered a white man, 62-year-old Andrew Wimsatt, sitting on a bench, and he stabbed him to death and tried to behead him. 

It turned out that Wimsatt was actually friends with Tyrus and Kat Timpf and others. 

For whatever reasons, you know, he communicated with them, went to some of their local shows. So he seems like a nice guy. They knew him. So some of this news has gotten out, but otherwise, if he didn’t have friends in high media places, this seems to be another kind of story where a heinous black-on-white illegal immigrant—I think he’s an illegal immigrant, this dude—murder has happened, and gruesome. 

Again, an attempt to saw off this guy’s head would have just passed in our media, as do so many shootings and murders in Chicago, for example. We don’t hear about this. Anyway, any thoughts on this beheading attempt, Victor? 

Victor Davis Hanson: Yeah, I mean, it was … The Left sees this as collateral damage. 

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So they have a narrative that white supremacists and white rage hurt black people. And the reality is that 49% to 50% of all rapes, assaults, murders are committed by black males who make up 2.5% of the population. That is a narrative that they do not want to discuss. They call this collateral damage to the narrative. 

The narrative is anti-empirical; it’s deductive. It just says this: White people are racist, therefore they must kill black people inordinately, even though in rarer interracial crimes, depending on the violent act, it’s six to 20 times more common for a black person to hurt a white person. I think in the case of female crime—and please, listeners, correct me; I’m doing this by memory—but the data that I had looked at said that is even more egregious that black … 

I don’t think there was a case last year of a white woman killing a black woman. But the reverse is certainly true. So the second myth is that our immigrants, both legal and illegal, are more law-abiding. They always say that they’re more law-abiding than Americans are, and that’s not true if you look at the data, especially on illegal immigrants and especially on the recent generations of legal immigrants. 

And that makes sense not because of racial differences, but because we are importing people. I say that because they look at it as—their home countries look at it as export for remittances. They are exporting people from some of the most violent places in the world, from the Sudan, from Somalia, from Venezuela, from Central America, some of the most violent places in the world, Mexico cartels. 

And that behavior continues. And we always get back to the same truism, Jack, that if you bring people into the United States and you don’t have confidence that you’re going to assimilate, acculturate and integrate them, and they have no desire to do that.  

They did not come here to be Americans. They came here to be Syrians or Egyptians or Qataris or Venezuelans or Ugandans or Nigerians with greater prosperity and greater security, prosperity and greater freedom. 

That’s all they wanted. They did not want to integrate into the system. And if you do that, then why wouldn’t they retain the same characteristics, values, behaviors that made their countries failed states? And if, therefore, they do not........

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