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the malthusian obsession with population growth and birth rates in the middle east, and xenophobic comments about immigration in this thread are truly disgustin

• wisethrowaway 5y ago
  In 2015 2 million of excess population arrived with nothing to Europe. We had to feed them, give them housing, etc. I think it's natural to worry about what comes next! "truly disgusting!" mindset
• inglor_cz 5y ago
  To be fair, population growth and birth rates in Subsaharan Africa are even higher. Let us just be nice and pretend that there can be no negative consequences to massive population growth in arid areas.
• newsclues 5y ago
  Inconvenient problems still require discussion and solutions.
• benque 5y ago
  If any given area produces more people than they can handle, then it should be their problem. The dominant ideology in middle east is religious authoritarianism. If you're a liberal democracy, then its a self goal to get immigrants from there.
  • geraneum 5y ago
    Well, a couple of these liberal democracies helped establishing some of the modern day religious fundamentalism in Middle East and have been part of the problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
    • benque 5y ago
      Yes, they are self goals too. It doesn't mean you got to score more of them.