Trump currently is telling Americans millions of scum are invading the country it’s absolutely false but Americans are happy to see kids drown or be shot. Not however at their Northern border with Canada.
Human rights scholars know that the key to waging an unfair fight is demonizing and dehumanizing your opponent. Less attention has been put to the fact that doing that means that there are now no longer two legitimate sides in a conflict. You don’t have a fair fight because you actually don’t have a fight. When there aren’t two recognized sides in a conflict, you get blood sport, not fighting.
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I see many migrants [a.k.a. ‘illegals’] new and old in my home city, which comes close to bordering Washington State. … I know that growing numbers of people, regardless of their origin, requiring housing only increases the market-value pressure on the rent rate I pay for my old one-bedroom apartment unit. I also know there’s greater pressure on the publicly-funded health services here that are already stretched thin.
Nonetheless, I feel it’s wrong, not to mention hypocritical, to criticize desperate people for doing what we all likely would do if in their dreadful position. But, of course, all of that no longer matters when they die in their attempt at arriving.
Migrants and refugees in general don’t willfully and contently become permanent financial/resource burdens on their host nation(s). Quite likely they desire to pull their own weight via employment, even if only to prove their critics wrong. I know I’d much want to if in their shoes.
Meanwhile, even genuine refugees are nowadays typically deemed ‘fake’ or economic refugees, especially on social media. Yet, many are rightfully despondent, perhaps enough so to work very hard in cashless exchange for basic food and shelter. It seems the death of true Christianity commenced the moment Jesus ascended.
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