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Originally Posted by RST500
True, the point that the article makes is that both liberals and conservatives want to resist these trends but in different ways.
"In response to greater demographic fragmentation, the woke left has pushed for policies geared towards racial equity such as a UC Berkeley study offering solutions to diversify Bay Area neighborhoods. The only counter position is from conservatives, who are marginal in California, with calls for assimilation like the English Only Movement. Both the equity agenda of woke liberalism and conservative’s assimilationist model would not work in a place as immensely diverse as California."
https://robertstark.substack.com/p/c...-pan-enclavism
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Reading this again, I'm still confused about liberal and conservative framings.
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These demographic maps of Los Angeles and the Bay Area portray an image that is closer to a mosaic or an assortment of de-facto micro-nations rather than the liberal ideal of the melting pot, which is generally the case in multi-ethnic nations.
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So is assimilation or "the melting pot" supposed to be "liberal" or "conservative" by this author's reckoning? It seems both ideas appear.
On the one hand the author uses terms like "
conservative’s assimilationist model" to contrast against
"woke liberalism", but then the "
liberal ideal of the melting pot" also appears as a phrase in the article.
I think there can be supposedly "liberal" and "conservative" framings of integration vs. segregation (yes, I know that's a loaded term but here in the broader sense). Either narrative has been trotted out at various times and places and over the generations, in either genuine or self serving ways.
E.g. "Liberal" spin on integration.
"Diverse people should come together and intermingle, not live apart. People should befriend and interact with, and end up having spouses, co-workers, siblings of all races -- it makes America great"
"Liberal" spin on segregation.
"Different enclaves should keep their uniqueness. Assimilation, gentrification or dilution of the different enclaves is bad so we must protect their distinctiveness."
"Conservative" spin on integration.
"People should assimilate to one American culture -- speak English, love baseball and apple pie. I don't care what you look like or who your ancestors are, as long as you love America, and observe (insert standard "ideal" of American culture), then "welcome, neighbor!"."
"Conservative" spin on segregation.
"It's natural for people to stick with their own kind, their own traditions. I don't have anything against (insert other group of people) but I wouldn't want them as my neighbor, they're just too different. It's my choice who I associate with. Don't force it on me."