Multiculturalism Necessitates Authoritarianism, So It Must Be Totally Rejected Through Mass Deportation
Source: John Daniel Davidson. "Multiculturalism Always Leads To Authoritarianism." October 9, 2026. thefederalist.com
The Gist
The author argues that when a country takes in lots of immigrants who don't assimilate, the government has to crack down on free speech to keep the peace, as he says is now happening in France and Britain. He concludes that the only way to stay free is to end multiculturalism by deporting large numbers of immigrants and stripping citizenship from some.
Conclusion
Because enforcing multiculturalism and managing unassimilated immigrant populations requires authoritarian, speech-suppressing government, the only way to avoid authoritarianism in Western countries like France and Britain is to totally reject multiculturalism through mass deportations, denaturalization, and remigration.
Premises
- Large-scale immigration from the Third World to France and Britain has produced unassimilated, multiethnic enclaves that retain their ancestral ethnic and religious identities.
- These unassimilated communities generate social conflict, as shown by the riots in France, which the author attributes to an alliance between the radical left and pro-Palestinian Islamist activists.
- Managing tensions among disparate ethnic and religious groups and their relationships to the state requires authoritarian measures, as in historical imperial systems such as the Ottoman millet system.
- Free speech is the one thing that cannot be tolerated if the state is to enforce multiculturalism and impose a large foreign population on a native one.
- French and British leaders are now turning toward censorship, as shown by Macron's call for state-funded fact-checkers and stronger use of the Digital Services Act, Burnham's National Centre for Information Defence, and British arrests for online speech critical of immigration or Islam.
- Therefore multiculturalism and authoritarianism are a package deal, and only removing the multicultural population can avoid the authoritarianism.
Assumptions
- Immigrant-descended populations in France and Britain are largely unassimilated and do not wish to assimilate.
- The recent censorship measures are caused by the need to manage multiculturalism rather than by other motives such as disinformation concerns, security, or ideology.
- Correlation between rising diversity and rising speech restrictions indicates a necessary causal link.
- Multiethnic societies cannot be governed in a free and stable way, so no liberal multicultural alternative exists.
- Mass deportation, denaturalization, and remigration are feasible, legitimate, and would not themselves require authoritarian means.
- The riots reflect the nature of the whole immigrant-descended population rather than a subset of activists.
- Native/immigrant identity is fixed enough that descendants of immigrants can be classed as not French.