Europe has a 'real opportunity' to take in Americans fleeing Trump. Is it ready for a 'brain drain'?
Europe has a 'real opportunity' to take in Americans fleeing Trump. Is it ready for a 'brain drain'?
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Europe hates migrants. Get real.
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No, no, these are expats
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What's the basis of that assertion?
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Frontex
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The fact that the EU manages its borders just like every other country/union in the world is proof that Europe hates migrants?
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Frontex literally sends them back to get raped & tortured and literally is the reason thousands per year drown in the Mediterranean Sea. We hate migrants, that is a European core value.
Not convinced? After 2nd world war, Germans even hated German refugees. Since then, migrants in Western/Northern Europe have been 2nd class citizens. Brexit went through partly as a campaign against migrants from Poland & Romania.
Still not convinced? It’s not about cultural compatibility or religion or skin color or anything. Ukrainian refugees have been met with empathy because of their skin color and religion at first (but we‘re _ definitely_ not racist and sorry for saying the quiet part out loud). However, in countries like Poland, Hungary and Germany who took on most of the refugees politicians already started using Ukrainians as scapegoats and the hate mongering hit them too.
Think it will be different with Americans? They’re gonna be the ones who took our jobs, always act entitled, destroy our work culture by always being available and ruining the housing market (as if that weren’t already fucked up). To an extent, this is how we see Americans already.
We are a racist, backwards continent. I wish it were different, but this is who we are.
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politicians already started using Ukrainians as scapegoats and the hate mongering hit them too.
Those are right wingers and other people on russian payroll, in whose main interest it is to make people hate Ukkranians.
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Yeah totally agree. The problem is there was no more outrage because we normalized hating refugees and migrants so much that there wasn’t even a debate or anything anymore, everyone was just rolling with it.
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Other places bad isn’t really an excuse for us to suck as well
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Not bad. Infinitely worse.
And truly. Having frontier control and regulations is not even bad.
Also, most Europeans are not racist. Your analysis on why Ukrainian refugees are treated differently than syrian refugees (for instance) is incredibly shallow. As people take in consideration a lot more things when judging a person, and attributing it to skin color is just to make yourself a nice strawman to attack.
It's perfectly valid to be able to have control on who you want to share your life with, as it will wildly influence your own life and well being.
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I honestly made an argument using facts to back it up ,and your reaction so far has been whataboutism and deflection. I’m also not sure how exactly you would argue against this when most European countries have right wing (extremist) governments right now and do I really have to explain that a core feature of right wingers is to hate immigrants?
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You facts:
-People racists because I said so.
The fact that you just said that MOST european countries have extremist right wing governments just said everything that needs to be said. And how you generalize to everyone who vote for any right or centrist party without even care for their reasons to do so... Also systematic downvoting every comment of anyone not agreeing with you shows a specific character trait.
There's nothing to argue here. That's my bad.
Have a good day.
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The fact that the EU manages its borders just like every other country/union in the world is proof that Europe hates migrants?
Yes, actually.
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The color of the skin.
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all of recorded history
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