I wish political leaders in Europe over the last decade had spent less time & effort fighting the invented “invasion” of immigrants and more time & effort addressing the very real, atrocity-ridden invasion to the east.
I mean, call me old fashioned, but armies with tanks, planes, and drones do infinitely more damage than desperate families carrying everything they own on their backs.
I get it. It’s far easier to attack a defenceless group of powerless people than to confront a real threat.
But after a decade of worse-than-pointless distraction, where are we now?
@ravenbait @thetemerian @andrewstroehlein Well, according to criminologist Ardavan Khoshnood, an associate professor at Lund University:
“(…) I would say close to about 90% of those criminal gangs and criminal networks are individuals with an immigrant background.
They come from the Middle East and the Balkans (…)“
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2008319/rage-sweden-shootings-every-28
@ravenbait @thetemerian @andrewstroehlein Is BBC not a trustworthy source either?
@leftyknowitall @ravenbait @thetemerian @andrewstroehlein Re-read all my toots on this thread but not sure where you saw anything racist.
There is no place for racism in Europe, nor should there be anywhere else.
@andrewstroehlein It is silly to pretend that mass immigration is not also a serious issue. Its also not a one or the other either. Europe has being trying to deal with both, infact, for the last decade. The fact that she has largely failed to do so adequately does not mean these issues are exclusive of one another.
Ignoring concerns about mass immigration has partly caused the rise of the radical right. And legit or not, such concerns must be addressed, considering the consequences.
Our most dangerous threats, in EU and especially America, are internal domestic fascists and greedy billionaires.
@andrewstroehlein I'm bored of having the 20th, 40th election in a row, where immigration is the main issue. There are other issues.
That being said, maybe we should take a little less new people. Not because they are bad for us, but because some of us just can't handle the situation. It is eating us up inside and when the far right gets power using immigrants as scapegoat, a lot of other things are lost.
I would say the biggest problem is the Putinization of the world: the installation of far right dictators after the utilization of privatization and the shock doctrine to enrich the ruling class.
Invading forces & expansionist megalomaniacs deliberately create refugee crises.
Forced migration is a deliberate military strategy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaponized_migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevauch%C3%A9e
Russian support for the brutal Assad regime helped created the Syrian refugee crisis.
Fossil fuel funded climate denial & droughts created the Sudan, Somalia, and Ethiopian famine refugee crisis.
Russia has been at war with Europe for years.
@andrewstroehlein For western Europe events in Georgia, Ukraine and Belarus were sadly seen as very much a distant "Kremlin affair in the post-Soviet space" at a time when German and French leaders still stubbornly insisted Russia was a normal country that could be reasoned with.
Meanwhile the immigration debate has been inherently linked with the rise of Islamic terrorism in the west, which is a smaller scale threat than Russia but feels much more local and tangible for people.
These people who fight "invasions" are innumerate idiots.
We have known for almost a century that educated girls have fewer children. If women don't have two children, the society doesn't break even: it shrinks.
The developed world needs these immigrants. Now, I'm all for making this n orderly process, but it could be made orderly, with proper language and cultural training and the like.
These "invaders" and their children are our future - like it or not.
Somebody will have replied with the obvious clarification that the immigrant invasion was a stalking horse for the other.
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