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I'm tired of hearing the term "xenophobia" used to describe this; because it makes it an all-or-nothing. Most people aren't like that. Most people are OK with

I'm tired of hearing the term "xenophobia" used to describe this; because it makes it an all-or-nothing. Most people aren't like that. Most people are OK with immigrants; the disagreement comes in for how many we should have, what ages they should be, where they should be from, when they affect the local economy, etc. Calling them "xenophobic" for disagreeing with a particular policy just breeds resentment, which manifests in, surprise, political action from the only people who seem interested in listening.

rainonmoon 3y ago
Your appeal to soothing political divides is wasted because I'm just a guy on the internet, not a politician or any other type of person interested in building coalitions with anyone who would lay blame at the feet of immigration. Whether it stokes someone's resentment or not is a displeasure they'll have to live with, I suppose. My point was that it's an irrelevant and unnecessarily divisive take that fits into a recent pattern of derailing comment threads with ideological bait. It sucks to come into so many threads lately to see crowing about illusory boogeymen like immigration or an alleged nefarious trans agenda or some other deluded neo-con conspiracy. It's lazy and a distraction. And if you sincerely oppose policies like the one in the OP, you can't look away from how one serves the other.