On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 16:48:22 -0500 Anti Fag <antifag@protonmail.com> wrote:
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina is so used to celebrating immigration as a cornerstone of society that a 19th-century saying — to govern is to populate — remains in use to this day.
I'd bet a couple of cents that the journos who wrote that don't have a clue about the origin of the quote. It is not a 'saying'. There are and were fake libertarians everywhere and 19th century argentine fake libertarians were among the best in the world. Or at least the most fraudulent ones. One of the leading fake libertarians was this lawyer called alberdi, who wote something titled "Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República de Argentina" - something like : foundations for organzing the argentine republic. (the psycho-scumbag was one of the authors of the 1853 constitution) The book has lots of nuggets, but here's one of the most remarkable. "Poblar es civilizar cuando se puebla con gente civilizada, es decir, con pobladores de la Europa civilizada. Por eso he dicho en la Constitución que el gobierno debe fomentar la inmigración europea. Pero poblar no es civilizar, sino embrutecer, cuando se puebla con chinos y con indios de Asia y con negros de África. Poblar es apestar, corromper, degenerar, envenenar un país, cuando en vez de poblarlo con la flor de la población trabajadora de Europa, se le puebla con la basura de la Europa atrasada o menos culta." "to populate [a country] is to make it civilized, if the immigrants are civilized, that is, if they are people from civilized europe. That's why I said in the constitution that the government must promote european immigration. But populating doesn't entail civilizing but instead dulling and making brutish if the immigrants are chinese and 'indians' from asia and blacks from africa. Populating means to foul up, to corrupt, to make degenerate, to poison a country if instead of populating it with the best of the working european stock it is populated with the garbage from backwards and less cultivated (regions of) europe." Yep, I'm not making that up. And as a matter of fact, the argentine constitution still says "Articulo 25o.- El Gobierno federal fomentara la inmigracion europea;" govt will promote immigration from europe http://www.constitution.org/cons/argentin.htm