The Psychological Trick That Keeps You Arguing About Immigration

This video is about why immigration is always the argument.
Not whether the arguments are right.
But why that particular argument, and not wages, or land, or who owns what, is the one that keeps being handed to you.
I go through the neuroscience, the leaked internal documents, the 2.7 million posts study, and the numbers on what people believe about immigration versus what is actually happening around them.
Then I explain why you still can't win the argument, and why winning it was never the point.
So

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0:00 The Persistent Pull of Immigration Discourse
1:16 Anatomy of a Threat Response
4:25 The Battle Between Reason and Panic
7:08 The Algorithm That Pokes Your Amygdala
14:08 The Gap Between Fear and Fact
23:00 Why You Can't Win With Data

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