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Well... You have had those fears for at most four days. At the same time, millions of people around the world has had to live with those fears constantly for ye
by bjourne 5y ago
Well... You have had those fears for at most four days. At the same
time, millions of people around the world has had to live with those
fears constantly for years. Many have had their homes bombed and their
relatives killed. Some of those have fled to Europe and the US because
they want what we have; freedom, security, and dignity. They
have not come to steal what we have, but to share it with us.
We have not been treating them nice. We have labelled them as security
threats or "demographic" threats and turned them away at our
borders. In many cases we have armed the same regimes that have
brutalized them and branded those who fought back "terrorists". Just
days before the Russian invasion popular politicians were screaming
about how refugees had "destroyed" my country.
I hope if anything good comes out of this crisis people would learn
how to sympathize with others. People who have felt the threat and
fears themselves maybe better understand the fears of those who have
fled their homes, regardless of skin color, eye color or religion?