Andrew Yang - Immigration/Social Issues/Memes #YangGang

Hey you, welcome back to the channel. Uh, and today we want to talk, uh, Andrew Yang, uh, deal a little bit with his views on immigration, some of the social issues abound in the country, uh, and how Andrew Yang is going to deal with that. And some of the, uh, memes that have been going around about Andrew Yang, are they positive, are they negative? And so we're going to try to take some of those things apart. So Andrew Yang's campaign so far, when it deals with immigration, uh, many different viewpoints have, uh, been put out there as far as what they think about Andrew Yang's view on that. And so from what I understand about Andrew Yang's view on immigration, It is, first off, he does plan to strengthen the southern border. Uh, now he's different from Donald Trump in that he doesn't need to, you know, build a huge wall or anything like that, like the Berlin, you know, the, uh, the, uh, what was it called, the, uh, the, the Iron Curtain, the, the Berlin Wall, right? He doesn't, you know, he doesn't need to do all, do those things. Um, but uh, his, his view on, uh, immigration as far as the positives that come out of immigration, and that immigration isn't the problem with the job economy, but it is automation and robotics, right? That, that will be that problem. But as far as, uh, what immigration does to America, and these are, uh, statistics I was able to at from, uh, how many PhDs, uh, are in America, uh, that come over from a variety of countries. And I believe it was something like 68,000, uh, PhDs in America as a product of immigration, making the United States the, uh, the, uh country with the most PhDs in it. Um, Germany coming up, uh, in second place with 20-some thousand-odd, um, uh, PhDs. And I don't have— I was looking for that screen in front of me, but I can't seem to find it. But, uh, it's along those lines. But the United States is the biggest, uh, country, or is the country with the most PhDs in it. And this is very important because the, the— obviously, the more PhDs you have, the more smarter people we have that immigrate from around the world who want to be American citizens, who want to be a part of America, uh, that if they return back to their countries with all of this information and knowledge, uh, then it doesn't benefit the United States right now. They can take that knowledge and they could take all of these great breakthroughs they may have one day. And it's the other nations are the benefactors of that. Right. Uh, and so that's why, uh, part of why Andrew Yang's immigration is, is very much so on the pro-immigration portion of the conversation, you know, not to mention he, his fam, his parents are immigrants themselves. Right. So he's gonna instinctively have this viewpoint, uh, that's probably going to be more positive on immigration. Based on where he's come from, what, uh, what's been— immigration has produced in the United States with Andrew Yang. He could possibly become a great president that does a variety of great things, uh, for the country. Uh, and so, you know, one proposal, he'd like to give green cards immediately to PhD graduates, which makes sense because we want to keep them in the country so they can use those smarts here to benefit us, right? We don't want to educate them and and send them someplace back else or make them return home. Um, as far as immigration goes with people coming in to the border, so one concern is that people will be, uh, flooding in the gates and, uh, you know, the administration is going to be letting these people in. No, uh, no, uh, that concern that you have to close the borders down if you're going to issue a universal basic income of $1,000 per month, because the idea is everybody's going to be then swarming to get through the gates. Uh, I don't believe that's what Andrew Yang is saying. I don't believe that's part of policy. Uh, his policy, as far as I could understand it, it seems to be that immigration will go through the legal process like it's always gone through it, but there will be this strengthening of the southern border to stop people from just trying to flood in, right? Um, and, and so I think that pretty much, uh, deals with his views on immigration. He, he also speaks about the people who are here, uh, who are hiding in the shadows, right? They're hiding in the shadows, they're working, and they, they have a contribution they can make to the country, but they aren't, uh, Providing that information because they're hiding and they're going to stay hiding, you know, as long as there is a very anti-immigration policy against them. And so through these measures, what Andrew Yang is proposing is to have them in a situation where basically they have this road to citizenship. in which they can come to the light, become, uh, contributors to the society, uh, declare their taxes and, and income and a variety of things, and put them on that rule, uh, instead of, instead of continually forcing them underground. Because there's millions upon millions of them here, already here, and there's nothing you can really do about that at this point in time. The only thing you could do now is kind of make them come out of the dark and try to try to make it so they can be citizens, right? Um, getting a bit into some of these, some social issues, uh, that comes Andrew Yang's way and how to deal with them. So one thing that's also been happening, uh, quite a bit with, um, you know, with the Andrew Yang, um, uh, campaign, his movement as I like to call it, uh, has been that there are a lot of people starting to grasp his campaign for their own purposes. Uh, I did a video some, uh, not long ago that talked about how, uh, many Trump supporters were starting to, uh, change their viewpoints and come over to Andrew Yang, but also, uh, not connecting Trump supporters with, with, with, um, with the alt-right. But then I also did the segment about how the alt-right was starting to use Andrew Yang for their purposes, and they didn't sound good at all, right? And some of the things they say about Andrew Yang serving their purposes and serving their needs, being this type of puppet where they can move their demands through, but they wouldn't have the backlash from society and their racist agenda because it would be coming from an Asian man. Now, of course, none of those things are good, and presidential candidate Andrew Yang has denounced any participation or use in those type of situations and elements. However, to be fair, and I think what the American voters, what we have to look at and what we have to understand is that when those things happen, uh, there's not a entire amount these candidates can do about it. Uh, not long ago, I believe it was also David Duke who kind of latched on to Tulsi Gabbard's campaign. And, uh, you know, David Duke, who was once a, uh, a KKK leader, um, and some people didn't like that, right? They think it sends a bad, uh, uh, um, you know, uh, uh, signal to these type people increase this negative campaign for Andrew Yang. But what we have to understand is, you know, obviously there are going to be situations where policies work for a vast majority of people. You know, I think in being a good American president, you're able to draw to your attention a lot of people from all different areas of the American populace. But I, but the, but the negative parts, there will be people who try to twist things and use them for their own agendas, right? And there's nothing these candidates can do about that. But we have to understand that that doesn't reflect on people like Andrew Yang, who wants to do the right thing and make it good for American people, that people can kind of twist your campaign and try to make it mean to them what they mean and tell their own story. And form their own narratives that aren't true. And so, to some people, it makes some people go, well, he wants to give racists $1,000 per month, and so that's a bad thing, right? And so that's not fair to Andrew Yang, and I think it's a mischaracterization, but it's also allowing these people who have these bad agendas and are trying to use Andrew Yang through these negative ways It's allowing them to win, uh, and, and that's not a good— that's not a good thing. I also wanted to cover a bit about, uh, social issues concerning reparations. Some people didn't like, um, how Andrew Yang's, uh, ideas about reparations, uh, specifically to the African-American community, uh, and they thought that, uh, it should have should be its own thing. He should specifically address it. And, um, the idea of what it seems to be is that Andrew Yang wants to deal with one problem at a time. And it's, uh, and to be clear, Andrew Yang never said that he didn't plan to do anything about reparations. What Andrew Yang is saying is that he would prefer to deal with this at this point in time, get that $1,000 in everybody's hands, get the benefits of that, the healthy benefits to that, the healthy benefits of to the economy, to everyone, one step at a time. And then, you know, he can deal with the reparations. Now, of course, some African Americans didn't like that. Uh, they wanted a better answer than that. And the only thing I can— I could really say to that, you know, being African American myself and thinking, yes, African Americans should receive some form of reparations, I'm not even clear what that is to, to make a statement about it or argument about it. I don't even really know what it means or how it should be done at this point in time, but I do believe African Americans deserve it. But what we have to look at and what is the situation is that a lot of other candidates who do symbolically support it haven't given us any details. And what we do know about politics is that people go back on their promises. They don't honor their promises like they're supposed to, even if they suggest that they will. And even with Donald Trump, that's part of the reason now why people are moving towards Andrew Yang's campaign, because he didn't, uh, honor to them many of these promises. But looking, but, but looking back specifically at the, the African-American situation with this, I would say that if African-Americans believe that these other candidates will really make good on those promises, what exactly have they said that makes you think that, uh, it will be a benefit to the African-Americans and that they will get reparations that are significant and do the good they hope will do. Uh, for instance, if we take someone like Kamala Harris, I believe she mentioned something like $500 to African American families, uh, if she kept that promise, right? But now if you— if we move to Andrew Yang, well, if he's giving $1,000 and they're giving $500, then beneficial-wise, I would think $1,000 would be worth more than $500. Uh, now another candidate, Marianne Williamson, Who I like her very much. I would love to see her as part of Andrew Yang's campaign. Unfortunately, I don't think Marianne will win, uh, for many reasons I won't get into in this video, but she did come up with a number, a number I've heard quite often, a lot, and that's $100 billion. Now the problem with, uh, $100 billion is, uh, uh, you know, When you really break it down, $100 billion is only a one-time payment of only $2,700 to every African American. So when people hear numbers like $100 billion, yes, it's a step into the right direction to, to, to helping African American people, but $100 billion, if that's the only direct, uh, on file on record promised that African American reparations will get from there a one-time payment overall about $2,700. When you compare $2,700 to possibly $1,000 extra per month for life, you kind of see the value there, right, between these things. But some propose, well, maybe the $100 billion could be put into some kind of trust fund or something like that. And that could be the case. Would it still be as significant as that to families? Maybe. But either way, that's something to think about. Or is it more so interest than just the gesture of the reparations? And if that's the case, if it's just more so the gesture and not based on the money, I'm sure Andrew Yang, uh, you know, will during the course of his presidency address that. I believe that deep down that he will address that and that he will figure out something fair for the African-American community. That's just my personal opinion on it, but I love to hear you guys' comments on it. But, uh, you know, even if, uh, you've heard something specifically, not just somebody talking good about reparations and saying that, you know, we should receive them, but what specifically that you have— you heard from the candidates that they went on record of saying specific details about what they would get, uh, the African-American community that would benefit them more than $1,000 a month per month. Uh, the next part is, oh, this is a nice picture. I've never actually seen Andrew Yang's family. Beautiful family there. But, uh, next one, I get into memes. Uh, are memes good for, um, Andrew Yang's campaign? Or, you know, some of the memes we've seen. And I've looked at some of these memes, and some of them are very funny. And I kind of like memes because They just do this extra little marketing push, you know, uh, to the, to, to the American people. And it's, it's easy. It's like a picture is worth a thousand words. They can get so much information across in these memes and it makes, uh, Andrew Yang's campaign more popular, right? So it's good in that area. Now where it's a problem is where it does go back to this, uh, these memes that are used by the alt-right, that are used by racist organizations, that are used by, uh, trolls and people who have very, uh, terrible, uh, agendas for this country and the American people. And, um, a lot of times you might see these Pepe the Frog memes and Andrew Yang's memes. Now here's the thing, the Pepe the Frog meme itself is not a racist meme. I've done research on it, it's not a racist meme. In fact, the creator of the Pepe The Frog meme has outspoken against that, that it wasn't created. I think it came from a comic book some years ago, but then it was taken over by the alt-right. And unfortunately, the alt-right has done such a good job of making that symbol part of who they are. It's hard to separate the two. And so I think the Pepe the Frog memes with Andrew Yang in them, I would think that those are not good memes for Andrew Yang's campaign, and that it can be negative to getting him votes and things like that. But it's just important that we separate the candidate from what American people try to do with this candidate, right? That we clearly understand what he's saying in his policies, right? And we know Andrew Yang denounces 2, you know, all of those things, right? Um, you know, and, and, and some people even try to make claims like he's a Chinese agent. Well, first of all, Andrew Yang's not even Chinese. He's Taiwanese. And there's a, a, a great difference between the Taiwanese and the Chinese. Um, but you know, we have to do our research. We have to look into these things, get the details about who Andrew Yang is, what his policies about. People say he's not smart. You know, he's political science at Brown University. He was an attorney. He's, you know, run successful businesses. And they try to make it like Andrew Yang is not a person who's sound in the mind when it comes to economic, fiscal policy, right? And fiscal policy. Um, but you know, is that true? Would you, you know, would you really think a businessman who went to Brown University missed the economic class on, you know, on supply and demand and sustainability and all those factors? So, uh, if you're, if you, if you're a person who was just kind of sitting on YouTube and trying to figure this stuff out and saying things like Andrew Yang's not smart, Um, I think you really need to do your research, right? You really, you know, I mean, you really got to, uh, uh, take a step back and say, is it, is it likely that he's not smart, uh, and he's done all these things? Uh, no, you're probably wrong. But anyway, guys, that's all I want to say in this video. If you like content like this, don't forget like, subscribe. I love to hear you guys' thoughts and opinions about this. 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