• mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    Putting the Tories aside for a second, is it your logic that nobody is allowed to be concerned about immigration 🤔? Because “racist dog whistling” is a strong phrase to use to cover a very wide and complex topic.

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      1 month ago

      i’m sure the far-right rioters are concerned mainly with the detailed cost-benefit analysis of how current and future immigration strategy could impact the uk’s fiscal outlook, and not with anything else at all

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          1 month ago

          so you waded into a conversation about the rioters to ask an unrelated question?

          cool thank you for the valuable discourse

          pretending that there’s a question posed by these riots about immigration is just pretending that that’s the question far right rioters are asking, which is just an attempt to rehabilitate blatant racism in the eyes of an uninformed observer, and by doing it you’re just being a useful idiot

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            1 month ago

            pretending that there’s a question posed by these riots about immigration is just pretending that that’s the question far right rioters are asking, which is just an attempt to rehabilitate blatant racism in the eyes of an uninformed observer, and by doing it you’re just being a useful idiot

            You’re assuming a strawman that doesn’t exist and getting very angry about it. Not every question is an attack on your very being. Chill yourself, buddy.

            so you waded into a conversation about the rioters to ask an unrelated question?

            My friend, this is how conversations evolve. That’s why they are threaded on this platform. Why do you need to be so angry that I’m asking a question that isn’t related? Why do you care so much? If you want to join the conversation that’s cool. But you seem to want to shout it down. That’s pretty sad, pal.

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      1 month ago

      Immigration is benefiting the UK so no, there is no reason to be “concerned”. I accept that there may be very specific situation for certain trade groups, but it is still benefiting the public as a whole.

      Unless someone “concerned about immigration” is also concerned about too many white babies being born, they are a racist.

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        1 month ago

        Oh I do agree immigration on the whole is a benefit to the UK, yes. Of course, I mean you only have to look around and see what immigrants are doing to help our public services for a start.

        However I don’t agree that having concerns equates to being a racist. That’s a rather large leap that I don’t think is fair. You should be allowed to question policies and express concerns without being shouted down as a racist. Of course, you don’t have to be right in your concerns. And I’m sure a lot of these concerns are baseless. But shouldn’t we be able to explain and discuss that with people without jumping to extremes?