{"id":93885,"date":"2025-11-30T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=93885"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:20:30","slug":"qotd-us-illegal-immigration-or-creating-a-new-helot-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/11\/30\/qotd-us-illegal-immigration-or-creating-a-new-helot-class\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: US illegal immigration, or, creating a new <em>helot<\/em> class"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>I see many comments to the effect that restricting illegal immigration will cause all sorts of shortages in agriculture and construction. I call bullshit on this for two simple reasons. Before the Great Replacement became enshrined into law in 1965 we had few immigrants of any sort and somehow we managed to pick our own cotton and build houses. We did it the old fashioned way \u2013 white and black Americans worked. High school kids would work the fields at harvest time. Black people didn&#8217;t have welfare so they did unskilled and even skilled work \u2013 bricklayers, lathe-and-plaster work, etc. Is there any reason we can&#8217;t do this today?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None whatsoever. The Democrats (which includes the Republicans) don&#8217;t know the word &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helots\" target=\"_blank\"><em>helot<\/em><\/a>&#8220;, of course, but that&#8217;s what all this boils down to: They&#8217;re importing a <em>helot<\/em> class. It&#8217;s probably futile, attempting to pinpoint the exact moment in time when America transformed into <acronym title=\"America In Name Only\">AINO<\/acronym>, but my best guess is &#8220;The moment the phrase &#8216;jobs Americans won&#8217;t do&#8217; was uttered for the first time&#8221;. Who the fuck are <em>you<\/em>, to declare that work, any work, is <em>beneath<\/em> you?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s probably the main reason America became a word-bestriding colossus: Our bone-deep belief in the fundamental <em>dignity<\/em> of labor. Well within my lifetime, &#8220;He&#8217;s a hard worker&#8221; was considered high praise, at least among people who were still Americans (as opposed to AINO-ites). He might not have anything else going for him, but he pulls his weight, and that&#8217;s enough.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, <em>the LEFT<\/em> understood this, well within my lifetime. I never tire of pointing out that you could read well-written, well-supported, logically airtight articles <em>against<\/em> illegal immigration in the pages of <em>The Nation<\/em> and <em>Mother Jones<\/em>, right up to the very end of the 20th century. The poor negroes, for instance, can&#8217;t &#8220;break the cycle of poverty&#8221; \u2014 a phrase never heard anymore \u2014 because all the jobs once available to them have been taken from them by illegals.<\/p>\n<p>But somehow, the Left convinced themselves that the only &#8220;jobs&#8221; worth having involve clicking a mouse; everything else is an insult to their special wonderfulness. And since the Left control everything, that became one of the defining assumptions of AINO culture \u2014 if you can&#8217;t do it with a laptop, it&#8217;s for peons. Compared to &#8220;the laptop class&#8221;, the <em>Ancien Regime<\/em> were kind, tolerant social reformers.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <a href=\"https:\/\/foundingquestions.wordpress.com\/2025\/01\/31\/friday-mailbag-100\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Friday Mailbag&#8221;, <em>Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2025-01-31.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update, 1 December<\/strong>: Welcome, <em>Instapundit<\/em> readers! Please do have a look around at some of my other posts you may find of interest. I send out a daily summary of posts here through my <em>Substack<\/em> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@nicholasrusson\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/substack.com\/@nicholasrusson<\/a> that you can subscribe to if you&#8217;d like to be informed of new posts in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see many comments to the effect that restricting illegal immigration will cause all sorts of shortages in agriculture and construction. I call bullshit on this for two simple reasons. 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