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How many people who are appalled by what is happening on the US-Mexico border know that the death toll among refugees there is far lower than on the frontiers of the EU?
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Yes, I agree it is important to keep in mind that the nativist thing is happening concurrently in many places allover the world in reaction to globalization. Last night I ended up being reminded of it by reading this article including a segment about the history of the migrant camp outside Calais, France. Where NIMBY basically goes global, you bitch about Israel doing it to Palestinians but you do the same thing to others.
Made me think of how some "progressives" involved in decrying Trump camps also like to bring up the whattaboutism of Obama admin. policy and say it wasn't much better in the whole scheme of things. And I think: it was far better, because they were wisely taking into account the blowback a more open borders policy could cause.It is not the time to be kindler, gentler on immigration, in the middle of a dangerous global reaction against too rapid change to a globalized world. Would beget more unresolved anger and more cruelty.
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 12:53pm
Seriously, what the hell does that mean? When you say "you" in a comment to me I assume you are talking about me. I would really appreciate some clarification of that sentence which I cannot even derive the meaning of but which characterizes my political stands in a way I do not recognize.
by A Guy Called LULU on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 1:11pm
No it's not directed at you. It's directed at French hypocrites. Who want France for the French and if migrants are not willing to wholeheartedly become French, they treat them as badly as Israelis treat Palestinians because they are not Jewish. Then there's the "yellow vest" crowd who don't want a single more person to be able to become French no matter what they might do.
As to your confusion. Here's the way the "In the News" section always appeared to work to me:articles are posted because they are interesting to that person, that is all. As they say on Twitter: "retweet does not necessarily mean endorsement."
If a commenter disagrees with the article or has something to criticize about it, they do so in a comment to the post. If they think it's a shit article or source or they like it and/or it inspires them, they say so. The poster shouldn't take it personally but somehow you always do. Because you mostly post what the rest of us here think are shit articles. And you take that personally. Where it's really only a disagreement about whether it's a good article. If we really wanted to argue about that we'd say "why do you think this is interesting, Lulu?" and we sometimes do. But since you tend to post a lot of the same anti-war and isolationist stuff over and over for years, we do make inferences that you like the stuff.
I this case, that doesn't even apply. To be clear: I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about the point of the article and taking it further, relating it to something I just read. In this case, I think it's a good one. Why do I have to explain that? Why don't you get the idea of sharing thoughts instead of constant debate? I am mystified actually. Does everything have to be pro or con?
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 5:03pm
Cuz the EU built that Sea that takes 36 hours to cross by boat from Libya, just slightly wider/deeper than the Rio Grande?
And here we get to blame Americans again - that Benghazi uprising never occured, it was all Obama/Hillary's fault, nothing to do with Gaddafi threatening civilians with reprisals, and it was Cameron/Sarkozy who overthrew Gaddaffi, not the Libyan militias that caught Gaddafi in the desert and later bayoneted him in the ass - great reporting, Counterpunch - an Orwell prize is waiting for you.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 4:49pm
This strikes at a thing that has always disturbed me about far lefties who believe the hegemon is out to screw powerless brown people: the very same lefties often have a very condescending (almost imperialist, dare I say?) attitude about those very same brown people: that they are not smart enough to have agency, and are not making informed choices to go with the "hegemon". That they need to listen to the wise white lefty elite.
Orwell indeed. Still trying after all these years, the same old same old unite under us wise intellectuals, you have nothing to lose but your chains. Some been there, done that, didn't work out.
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 5:01pm
A.P. in The Miami Herald: Migrants detained in Libya, caught in crossfire, seek aid
BY MAGGIE MICHAEL ASSOCIATED PRESS UPDATED JULY 01, 2019 12:18 PM
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 7:41pm
A.P. in The Jefferson (City Missouri) News Tribune:
Migrants stranded in Libya endure sewage, maggots, disease
Caption: In this May 21, 2019 photo provided by an African migrant, hundreds of migrants stage a protest in a detention center in the town of Zintan, western Libya, appealing for help from the United Nations. In the desert of western Libya, hundreds of African migrants were held for months in a detention center, packed in amid garbage covered in maggots and sewage, shared buckets of water, and barely surviving on only one meal a day. More than 20 have died from disease and hunger, while EU-funded aid agencies had little knowledge of the situation, according to leaked memos and migrants. (AP Photo)
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 7:51pm
So is this the A.P. that's just a "Propaganda Multiplier"?
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 7:54pm
I thought to check for more recent A.P. "propaganda" subscribed to by newspapers around the world:
Government photos show detained migrants pleading for help
By NOMAAN MERCHANT an hour ago
Judge blocks Trump policy keeping asylum-seekers locked up
By GENE JOHNSON a minute ago
Italy judge rules to free captain of migrant rescue boat
By FRANCES D'EMILIO an hour ago
Booker unveils immigration plan relying on executive orders
By ELANA SCHOR today
The Latest: Italy’s Conte: Merkel asked about rescue captain
yesterday
Drowned migrants return to El Salvador for burial on Monday
By MARCOS ALEMAN June 30, 2019
Putin says liberalism ‘eating itself,’ migrant influx wrong
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV June 29, 2019
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 8:18pm
new: Libyan official says airstrike kills 40 migrants in Tripoli
Also I would be remiss if I didn't throw another continent into the hopper here:
And then there's the Dalai Lama suggesting Europe should be for Europeans:
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 9:28pm
Immigration is a large problem to confront and manage in better and better ways, meaning handling its root causes as well as its manifestations and damages/benefits. Europe can handle some Mideast/African/Asian influx, but like all things, in moderation/reasonable quantity - for the xenophobic that's low, for many others it still has its limits - and it's cost Merkel a lot of her power sticking her neck out, and helped inflame/nudge along Brexit.
Now, how to talk sanely about immigration in the US between wall builders and let-em-all-in types? Tuff.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/03/2019 - 1:24am