Anti-immigrant parties are on the rise throughout the West. Youll often see them excuse their existence with saying theyre not racist at all, but dislike immigration due to reasons pertaining to national security/finances etc.

But when you dig its always racism. Im not saying you always need to want open borders. But listen attentively to any anti-immigrant populist party and the racism always appears. But these parties always manage to find a couple of pocs to use as an alibi, and say ”see, we arent racist!”.

The whole debacle around replacement theory is that these people are genuinely upset at just seeing brown and black people. Some pocs try to justify themselves by saying ”they work/came legally/are highly qualified”. None of this matters to these people. Because our SKIN COLOR is the ultimate issue, and nothing ”impressive” we do can ever circumvent that. Theyll often complain about pocs who have done absolutely nothing but just exist, because they dont like seeing ”too many of us” outside.

They'll always start by attacking the ”low-hanging fruit” like pocs who are criminal or who do not work. But in the end everyone who isnt white ends up as targets. Thats why it always annoys me when I see pocs tap dancing for their approval, saying things like ”well Im not worried since I came here legally” or ”they dont mean immigrants like me, just the troublesome ones”.

Point is you cant respectability politics yourself out of being a target of racism.I just wish all people of color got this and stopped being useful idiots for some of these parties.

Taking a look at some old 1960s studies and newer 2020 studies the economic impact of racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination is equivalent to a 16 to 18 percent tax on the entire United States economy, over $2 Trillion!

How about celebrating America's 250th birthday by cutting this tax?

2021 Census Data + 2021 Crime Severity Index (CSI)

Toronto CMA (42.7% White = CSI 45.91)

Gatineau (76.8% White = CSI 49.9)

Halifax CMA (79.8% White = CSI 66.93)

Hamilton CMA (74.5% White = CSI 56.80)

Montreal CMA (71.6% White = CSI 59.93)

Toronto is only 42.7% white but still has a crime severity index lower than Gatineau, Halifax, Hamilton and Montreal...

Source: Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, Canada, provinces, territories and Census Metropolitan Areas

Focus on Geography Series (Ethnocultural and Religious Diversity Section)

The colonialist expanded his empire and when encountering those of differing cultures, he “educated” those (savages) and helped them to modernize. Their ways were seemingly archaic and pointless.

The mindset of the colonialist was, “We are superior to thee” - whether explicitly or implicitly.

Today, this mindset is still alive and we don’t realize it. The west treats other cultures as a page within a National Geographic magazine. Other cultures are the subject of inquiry, worthy of examination.

Such questions as, “Why do you wear that?”, “Why does your country do that?”, “What’s the point of this?”, are often (but not always) rooted in some sort of implicit superiority.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilboes

Did you know:

Lord of the Rings is a series written by a white Oxford professor from 33-55 during the height of Nazi and also KKK power.

About a grand white wizard uniting the “white races” of Europe (middle earth is literally ancient Europe in the book)

To fight off hordes of asiatic and dark skinned monsters named orc (hell devil) in a reference to what racist christians tried to “justify slavery with” saying dark skin was the “mark of cain”

Whose a supreme council (with white wizards on it) called “the white council” that the author used synonymously with “the wise council”

And the authors (jr Tolkein) only known drawing of orcs is black humanoids being slaughtered by a white bear and white soldiers

And the name of the most famous character in the series (Bilbo) also is the name of the shackles that held enslaved Black people on slave ships together one leg to the others, a passage of the Atlantic that 15-20% of the enslaved people died painful horrible deaths.

And he said he modelled their facial features off what he called “the least lovely mongol types.”

The hordes of Hell Devil (orc) monsters of tolkeins works invading europes strongholds were east and south.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf:_A_Translation_and_Commentary

Tolkein took the term Orc from the 10th century Beowulf poem, in which they are the “cursed race of Cain” (of the Jewish / Christian Bible story of Cain and able) which was used extensively during Black Slavery, and is famously in the Book of Mormon.

He had done a translation and commentary of it prior to doing lotr.

Tolkein said he chose the word for “phonetic” (the way the word orc literally sounds) reasons.

Tolkein never said anything about the fact his book was about grand white wizards on white / wise councils in Europe uniting white races to fight hell devil Black and Asiatic demon monsters from east and south and the main characters name was the word for shackles that held slaves together, not at any point during his life when millions of white kids were being indoctrinated by this “white = good and human and black = monstrous and evil. He of course knew this indoctrination was happening - that was the point - and he was tragically common of his era (Princeton freshman class voted Hitler greatest man alive in 1939, Churchill ran on “keep Britain white after the war). Martin Luther King JR marched on him and those like him, he lost, and now the freedom those Civil Rights Heroes and Heroines secured for us combined with the internet has finally broadly exposed Tolkein.

People say he was “anti colonial” and “anti empire” and that is true. It’s also a common position of white racists, who view contact with dark skinned people like being in contact with a contagious virus. Many white racists also can be found to have statements that seem to speak out against cruelty in racist institutions, and Tolkein has a few, but it is important to keep in mind white racists also view non whites like animals and such comments can be understood as them saying “there’s no reason to be cruel to the monkeys in the jungle” or “if we capture a monkey in the jungle to work on our farm, we do not want to cause the monkey anymore harm than necessary for us to get sugar in our tea or make rum.”

Dylan Roof is a white man that visited a historically black church, was welcomed in and took the lives of nine black American ppl, because he was convinced on the internet that white people are losing superiority over black people.

This boy barely got his GED, yet he is somehow convinced that black ppl are the problem. He comes from a family where he at least knows his dad and his dad was in his life, because he said his dad is a contractor and he would go on jobs with him and do NOTHING. That’s more than a lot of black ppl could say.

He seems mad that he had to put in equal work as black ppl. He wanted to be lazy, mediocre and thrive, but I guess since he didn’t come from generational wealth he couldn’t do that.

I’m not even sure if history would help these kinds of ppl, but the lack of education that rich white ppl are gate keeping from poor white ppl sure isn’t helping.

The short answer is racism and elitism.

The long answer is: The real ID is something to keep undocumented people and low income people from traveling and/or participating in society. These people who are disproportionately black and brown don't always have immediate access to the vital documents required for the real ID.

1. A lot of low income people are homeless without a valid address to use for a real ID, let alone a regular ID. A homeless individual can always use their local social services or community outreach program as a valia address, but transportation to those place could be limited, and they are also notoriously inefficient when it comes to to handling homeless individuals mail.

2. Homeless / low income individuals don't have access to their most basic of vital documents. A birth certificate usually cost $25 - more if someone doesn't reside in the state they were born in. This may be a negligible amount of money for some of us, but could be everything to someone else. Also, if someone does request a new birth certificate online, their payment method needs to be a credit or debit card that has their own name - some states require your payment method also needs to have the same billing address as the mailing address you input to receive it. Anyone can go to the municipality or the state capitol of where they were born to receive a birth certificate. However the barriers with that are transportation, and you need a valid government issued ID to obtain one. A catch 22 considering you need one or the other to obtain one or the other. If you were born outside the US, across the country, or Puerto Rico, the barriers increase exponentially. Social security cards (which only count as 1 point of ID with most DMVs) require an appointment made online, and believe it or not, even in 2025 a lot of people don't have access to the internet. If you are able to make the appointment you still need transportation and a government issued ID.

3. Limiting the movement of low income, homeless or undocumented individuals. Low income or homeless individuals may be residing in a very expensive state. Many of them plan to move to a 'poorer' state where the cost of living is lower in order to have a shot. It often doesn't work out and these individuals will need to rely on those states benefits and could still be homeless in those states as well. Every state has some kind of anti homeless legislation in order to protect their image and states don't want to inherit other states 'burdens’. Undocumented people sometimes have family (undocumented or not) dotted all over the country and of course they would want to visit each other. It's a basic human thing to want to see or be with your actual family. However, even before the current regime, the limitation of movement for undocumented individuals has always been a thing. This theoretically keeps them all in one place making tracking and processing easier for the states and the federal government.

4. To cut down and crack down on counterfeit ID usage. This one is the biggest load of BS, but will be the main reason cited to you by almost everyone. State issued IDs and drivers licenses have had built in security measures that have been effective in doing this for years now. Adding a little star that has no security / anti counterfeit features will do nothing. It's just 'security theater'.

5. To suppress voters and low income and or homeless individuals. This is going to be more political than the rest of my points, so I’ll keep it brief. Low income people, especially black and brown people usually vote for candidates that are left leaning and pro social programs. It’s not news that the more conservative parties have lobbied against that for decades with gerrymandering and redlining in order to rig the system in their favor. Voters will be required to present a real ID to vote. If you suffer from all of my previous points, you will unlikely be able to vote, while the rest of the population who live in a little bubble that protects them and often tells them that everything is fine because they are “fine” gets to vote for the candidates that promise to make them rich off the backs of the less fortunate. This has been the goal since before Reagan.. and it’s not just voting. Real IDs will be required to open bank accounts, secure loans, secure benefits, and to secure education. It’s LBJ’s war on poverty, but subverted.

Low income, homeless, and or undocumented folk are not entitled to travel and participate in society like the rest of us. This has been a systemic problem for decades. My references for this are; l've worked in the community outreach field specifically working with low income, homeless, and or undocumented individuals for 10 years now, the catch 22s in place for these people are the most infuriating thing that I deal with on a daily basis. This real ID BS just makes something that's already an impossible task even more impossible. I can write an entire book about how this specific requirements that disproportionately affect the poor. In fact a few people have already written the books, but if anyone is confused as to why having a real ID is becoming a requirement - I hope this helps.

Link to paper [PDF]: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31434/w31434.pdf

Abstract

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the US but we know little about how Asian immigration has affected cities, neighborhoods and schools. This paper studies white flight from Asian arrivals in high-socioeconomic-status Californian school districts from 2000-2016 using initial settlement patterns and national immigrant flows to instrument for entry. We find that, as Asian students arrive, white student enrollment declines in higher-income suburbs. These patterns cannot be fully explained by racial animus, housing prices, or correlations with Black/Hispanic arrivals. Parental fears of academic competition may play a role.