you are right . I dont really see any argument that would change my mind on this subject . I used to be pretty open about accepting refugees . They need help , But after seeing what happens when you do help them . I really dont think we should help them by letting them into the EU . We should help them stay in their own countries . Military intervention and aid programs
Ok, I'll give it one more go. Like Skatan said, there are bad apples everywhere. But I understand what you are afraid of.
Not a single Arabic country makes the top 100 in the Gender Gap Index. And it's true that in Islamic countries the statistics on rape are off the charts (over 99% of women in Egypt have been sexually assaulted at least once in their life). It actually
is pretty likely that, in that respect, there are more bad apples among the refugees than there are among 'us'. Much the same is true of Latin-America, by the way, but we shouldn't be afraid to acknowledge this about the places people are fleeing from.
But we also shouldn't let that undermine the values which western civilization is, supposedly, built on. For all our hypocrisy and greed, our states' inability and/or reluctance to withstand corporate influence and so on, those European states still are some of the best places to live in, especially in terms of human rights and equality.
Values which we are now hoarding. Countries are taking refugees' money under the embarrassingly flimsy pretext of having them pay for their accommodation. A child can figure out these confiscations won't make a dent, that it is just an uninspired measure to appease disgruntled Danes and Germans. Refugees have to wait three years to reunite their families? It's symbolic politics at its worst, and you might as well call it bullying. But it functions in detracting from the reality, that we are going to have to cooperate as European countries, and throw a shitload of money at this, because it is worth that to us. The same way Sweden doesn't do life sentencing, because it gives people the benefit of the doubt, the opportunity to better themselves. We aim for rehabilitation rather than condemnation, and grant human rights to
everyone. If those are indeed our values.
How else do you see this play out? The refugees will come. We have started intervening, sent our militaries, but the influx continues and will continue for some time. So they'll go elsewhere, becoming even more marginalized than they already were. People will look back on this moment in time, and what will they see? Thousands of desperate people came into the continent, thousands more died en route. We put up barracks and fed, clothed and washed them. Educated their children where we could. Then some of them got violent and we went,
Fuck this shit. Here's the plan: close the gate. Drone their deserts and let Dubai take the fuckers. We'll keep the ones we already have in the barracks for a few more years, until eventually we have to let them stay, what with all their children becoming practically native here. By then the public will empathise with them because it'll be heartwarming to them how well they speak our language. It'll blow over.
Is that a good look for our enlightened western civilization?
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