Reposting this from Qasim Rashid, esq. on Mastodon.

(I do know this is discoverable from Mastodon but heck consider it a boost).

    • gonzo0815@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      81·
      2 years ago

      People who claim that don’t mean literally work with smugglers. They mean, that efforts to save refugees encourages fleeing.

      That’s about as logical as claiming ambulances are working with drug dealers when they try to save someone ODing.

      • julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        It is illogical, not to mention callous. And yet the exaggerated rhetoric persists and whips up negative sentiment towards literal life savers from braindead segments of the far right.

        They’re wrong about encouraging fleeing too (as if that even needed saying) as I’ve pointed out elsewhere on the thread.

      • The dogspaw English
        2·
        2 years ago

        Your crazy if you don’t think people believe this when this is what there told on the news every da