PaulaToThePeople 😷I think the biggest coup that #capitalism ever scored, was to make people believe that humans who made it out of an active war zone, crossed a desert and rowed a shitty rubber raft over an ocean are dangerously lazy freeloaders, while people who inherit billions from exploitative ancestors and never pay any taxes deserve praise and then called that an "achievement oriented society".
Mal 🇿🇦🏳️🌈🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🇸🇪@PaulaToThePeople True words. I live among immigrants ... I am married to one ... I AM one, though I'm a white man so I don't feel the effect of xenophobia ...
Thankfully neither of us had to take risks with our lives to get here in South Africa. What Syrian and Afghan migrants go through is heartbreaking.
But my wife is made to feel unwelcome just the same, mainly by the bureaucracy, much less frequently by ordinary citizens.
It shouldn't be necessary to justify the existence of real people by their mere economic value, but it almost goes without saying that my Zimbabwean and Malawian friends are vitally productive, and support huge private family economies all over the world. But they're also just good people! Anyone would want my migrant friends as colleagues, neighbours and friends.