RE: Well done, Australia!
October 30, 2016 at 10:17 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2016 at 10:18 pm by Regina.)
Let's be real, what's the population of Nauru? Australia could take every last person from that country and nobody would notice.
Meanwhile in The UK, alleged Brexit-fuelled attacks are up and in full swing;
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hom...86241.html
This is what happens when you let far right nationalists dominate the discourse on immigration, and when you let sensationalist "Native" identity politics run rampant. You pave the way for these emboldened Nationalist savages taking swings at people, just for having private conversations with their friends that aren't in the Native language. This is sickening entitlement.
I'm neither for nor against immigration, I see both sides. I understand being concerned over complete un-restrained immigration and the demographics of your neighbourhood transforming, and being concerned that the Regressive Left aren't taking the initiative to challenge bigoted viewpoints within minority communities. That still doesn't mean I support completely blocking all immigrants from entering and throwing our responsibility to provide asylum by the wayside. Immigration is a nuanced thing to me, it doesn't have to be a for/against.
I do think Australia are silly for this policy, this mass immigration/asylum issue does need to be spread and shared between all countries capable of taking immigrants, not just concentrated in Europe where we are a bit overwhelmed.
Meanwhile in The UK, alleged Brexit-fuelled attacks are up and in full swing;
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hom...86241.html
This is what happens when you let far right nationalists dominate the discourse on immigration, and when you let sensationalist "Native" identity politics run rampant. You pave the way for these emboldened Nationalist savages taking swings at people, just for having private conversations with their friends that aren't in the Native language. This is sickening entitlement.
I'm neither for nor against immigration, I see both sides. I understand being concerned over complete un-restrained immigration and the demographics of your neighbourhood transforming, and being concerned that the Regressive Left aren't taking the initiative to challenge bigoted viewpoints within minority communities. That still doesn't mean I support completely blocking all immigrants from entering and throwing our responsibility to provide asylum by the wayside. Immigration is a nuanced thing to me, it doesn't have to be a for/against.
I do think Australia are silly for this policy, this mass immigration/asylum issue does need to be spread and shared between all countries capable of taking immigrants, not just concentrated in Europe where we are a bit overwhelmed.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
