Thursday, December 17, 2020

Why do people hate immigrants?

Immigrants are dying in custody but there's no outrage 'because they're just immigrants'. 

Immigrants are amazing people because somehow they are capable of being too lazy to work but at the same time they are stealing jobs from the locals. 

I've been searching but haven't found a single valid argument why immigrants should be held of at the border of any nation. Even one of the most tolerant countries in the world, the Netherlands, wants refugees to be taken in by the countries they arrive at. Which isn't really fair to the European countries in the south of the continent. But the Dutch government can say: 'Well, if those boats full of refugees from countries we helped bomb would enter Europe at the Dutch border, of course we would let them in because we are very tolerant.' Yeah, right. All that Syrian refugees need to do is stop the boat at a metre away from the Greek coast and jump a few thousand miles in a single leap to find themselves directly at the Dutch border to be welcomed by the Dutch.

Suppose all immigrants are always really terrible people and every country in the world in right in denying them access, what would the world look like: if Leonardo di Caprio's mother hadn't moved to the USA? If Donald Trump's grandfather had never left Germany or his mother had always stayed in Scotland? If Melania Trump had to find her clients in Slowakia or Sergy Brin hadn't been able to help found Google? Would you enjoy your meal if every single day you had to eat 'real American' food and could never taste apple pie, Thai food, pizza or fries?

And what if other countries would refuse Americans to enter for the sole reason they were stupid enough to elect a TV-host as their president, allowing their beautiful country go to waste as a result?

Can you name one valid argument why countries should ban immigrants from entering? 

After '9/11' the USA decided to ban Muslims from entering the country. With the exception of Muslims from Saudi-Aribia. Strangely enough because that was the country most hijackers from that dreadful day came from. The hate shifted from hating Jews to hating Muslims and hating Jews became 'not done'. Except for Trump fans like the Proud Boys and a few other nice people. Anti-Muslim rethoric is not considered hateful but 'freedom of speech' but you would get a social media ban if you replaced 'Muslims' with 'Jews' in your Tweets and Facebook posts. Weird, isn't it?

What if the USA had refused to let in a little jewish girl called Anne Frank and later she had died in a concentration camp? Oh, wait. Yes, Anne Frank's family was denied refuge in the USA and could not hide from the Nazi's. Simply because Americans in those days hated Jews more than Nazi's. 

What if Anne Frank had a 'vlog', a video diary? 



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