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> people who are afraid for their own economic circumstances and safety are responsible for that reputation It's not "economic circumstances and safety" that m
by eropple 9y ago
> people who are afraid for their own economic circumstances and safety are responsible for that reputation
It's not "economic circumstances and safety" that makes people invent hordes of dark-complected rape gangs out of whole cloth (that would be Pegida, a neo-Nazi group who invented the "Cologne rape gangs" and other similar swill). And the people casting racism as "economic insecurity" are themselves racist propagandists, my dude; it is air cover for bad shit. They do not deserve your buy-in or your charity.
- saltyseadog 9y ago>Invent lol
- jakobegger 9y agoThanks for saying this so clearly. Anti-Immigration hate has nothing to do with „economic insecurity“. That‘s just something people say because they desperately want to find a somewhat rational reason for xenophobia. But there isn‘t. For some reason, all the people I know that complain about immigrants are actually pretty well off. I think they don‘t have any real problems in life, so they just come up with some imaginary threat. The people who actually suffer from economic hardship don‘t worry about immigrants – they have enough problems of their own to worry about. Not sure if my observations are representative, though.
- eropple 9y ago> For some reason, all the people I know that complain about immigrants are actually pretty well off. I think they don‘t have any real problems in life, so they just come up with some imaginary threat. I can't speak for everywhere, but Donald Trump's supporters in the United States certainly did trend well-off, majority/white, and male. My theory is that it's not immediate problems gripping them--it's that they see other people catching up, and the idea that it's zero-sum has permeated the game.