Marketing Malt Liquor and Shaping a New Underclass
07/20/2001
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uploadedyearslater"While 2 percent of white and African-American [violent] deaths occur in bars, the figure is 12 percent for Mexican-Americans." A brilliant article by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor in "Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper" is ostensibly about marketing malt liquor to Hispanics. It's actually about immigration, the growth of an Hispanic underclass, the triumph of alienation over assimilation - take that, Ron Unz - and (alas) blind, nation-eating corporate greed. [This just in: A libertarian friend worries VDARE is capitalist-bashing – he says corporations don't shape taste.  We say the corporations are pushing on an open door.  The open door – the social pathology – has been imported by immigration policy.  But the corporations are pushing – not an edifying spectacle.]

 

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