(October 30, 2016 at 10:17 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: 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.
This is the plague of our species, the bullshit idea that on a 4 billion year old planet that has had 5 mass extinctions with humans being far late in the evolutionary dance, that we, because of our brains think we are top of the chain. No, our brains and complex language as a species is only one attribute in evolution. For all the good all these religious and political and economic ideologies like to claim, we simply are ignorant far too much of why our tribalism exists and that ignorance also allows our brains to dream up very destructive ways to fight and murder each other over resources and then stupidly attach those acts to morality.
No humans, we are NOT top of the chain we are simply one aspect of life. No other species has our ability to self destruct with war and nuclear weapons. If we get stupid as a species and go nuclear, cockroaches and bacteria will be fine, but we will if we are lucky to survive, at best, will be knocked back to the stone ages.
We simply do not understand because of the age of technology, and our population now, we cant stick with old myths and the age of conquests as if the planet was flat and you could go forward forever. Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech is something to be valued and not widely enough known. Our species really needs to face how small and fragile we really are.
