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Post by confuzzled dude Thu Oct 08, 2015 2:05 am

Consider the paddy wagon. From the mid-19th century through the mid-20th, this was the common term for the vehicles in which police hauled convicts and arrestees to jails, courts and prisons. Consider, now, the origin of the term. The “paddies” were Irish immigrants, who were flocking to the United States in the 1840s and ’50s, fleeing the great famine that had descended on Ireland. And the Irish, some right-thinking Protestant Americans believed, were inherently a criminal bunch.
Like most immigrant groups, the Irish took the hardest, most thankless jobs — building railroads, for instance. Nonetheless, the nativist leaders of the time — the 1850s version of Fox News chief Roger Ailes — insisted that guys with names like Hannity and O’Reilly were inherently disposed to crime and violence, undeterred by the absence of data that backed up their claims.

’Twas ever thus. Italians were criminals or anarchists; Jews were criminals (as in “The Great Gatsby”) or communists; Mexicans, if you believe Donald Trump, are rapists and murderers. Never mind, as a recent voluminous study by the National Academy of Sciences makes clear, that the linkage between immigrants and crime is not merely fictitious but actually inverse: After close statistical analysis, the study concludes, “Immigrants are in fact much less likely to commit crime than natives, and the presence of large numbers of immigrants seems to lower crime rates.” Based on the findings of at least 30 academic papers, the study concludes that foreign-born young men have an incarceration rate that is one-fourth that of native-born, and that “neighborhoods with greater concentrations of immigrants have lower rates of crime and violence” than other socioeconomically equivalent neighborhoods.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americans-long-history-of-wanting-to-deport-certain-groups-of-immigrants/2015/10/07/24dad89c-6d23-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html

LOL @ Hannities and O'Reillys were inherently disposed to crime and violence, 1850s version of Jose & Roberto, I guess.

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