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Bizarre to combine "immigrants are subhuman" with "I prefer my own nation". The first of these statements is mindless hate supported by a fringe of a voiceless
by jlawson 7y ago
Bizarre to combine "immigrants are subhuman" with "I prefer my own nation".
The first of these statements is mindless hate supported by a fringe of a voiceless fringe.
The second is a common belief within nearly every human group ever. It is evolutionarily inevitable given how groups outcompete atomized individuals. It is justified within a reciprocal altruism framework. It is evident in everyday behavior where people from San Francisco to Milwaukee form social groups with others like them.
- asveikau 7y agoThe issue occurs when you prefer your own nation so much that you spend an inordinate amount of time building cages to store members of other nations, or doubting the birth certificates of people whose names look a bit like they might have come from a different place as yours, or, one that shocks me but is "accepted wisdom": you believe that another nation's citizens should not be entitled to civil rights of your country. These are things that occur in the open, with increasing frequency, and I have problems with. At that point and many similar ones I would stop calling it "I prefer my own nation to exist and it differentiates itself in ways I appreciate" and more of a "hangup".