Why We Don’t Care That the Amish ‘Don’t Assimilate’. By Mark Tapson at Front Page.
Leftie Joshua Reed Eakle: “The Amish are also clearly a community that refuses to assimilate to American society. And yet no one on the right seems to care. Curious.”
Spoiler alert: contrary to what Eakle was undoubtedly implying (because “liberals” make everything about race in order to demonize their opponents rather than debate the merits of their actual position), the reason has nothing to do with race. The Right doesn’t have a problem with the Amish “not assimilating” not because they’re white, but for the following reasons, which are self-evident to any honest observer:
The Amish are not from a culture that is incompatible with and even hostile to Western civilization. Their beliefs and values may not be wholly mainstream but they are largely Christian, American values.
The Amish don’t have an ideologically supremacist imperative to overthrow the Judeo-Christian, capitalist West and to subdue non-believers.
They don’t fly hijacked planes into the World Trade Center or massacre nightclub patrons.
They don’t behead or knife random non-believers.
They don’t stone adulterers to death or hurl gay people from rooftops.
They don’t view the sexual assault of non-believers as their right.
They don’t establish “Amish Learing Centers” as fronts for defrauding American taxpayers of billions of dollars.
The Amish do have their own communal moral and legal code – the Ordnung (German for “order” or “discipline”) that has historically put them in occasional conflict with federal law: for example, the Ordnung forbids relying on government public assistance. The Amish view this as a failure to trust in God’s providence and a violation of the church’s duty to care for its own elderly and sick, so Congress granted them an official federal exemption to waive their Social Security taxes – which meant the Amish gave up any right to receive future benefits. This is hardly a burden on their fellow taxpayers.
But their default stance is to respect civic authority and pay their taxes. Most importantly, they don’t try to impose the Ordnung on non-believers.
They also don’t view themselves as an oppressed victim class and demand special government privileges. They don’t demand the establishment of prayer rooms in schools, airports, and hospitals or demand that nonbelievers around them participate in their fasting.
There is more, but I rest my case. …
Conclusion:
In truth, the Amish actually are assimilated. There simply are some areas in which they choose not to participate in mainstream culture, and who can blame them? Many Americans could actually learn, for example, from their wariness of the dangers a degenerate culture poses to their children, their community, their spirituality, and their way of life.
I hope that clears things up for Joshua Reed Eakle and his fellow race-mongers. As much as they want to make the issue of unassimilated migrants throughout the Western world about race, it is not.
