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Farage highlighting illegal migration chaos

  • 06-05-2020 11:55am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭splashuum


    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1374875846051725

    Farage is very recently going hammer and tongs in highlighting the major illegal migration scandal in the UK. He released a startling video showing the true extent of what is going on in the UK right now. The fact that small babies being brought on to these boats is scary. Even if some of these people qualified as refugees, one can only claim refugee status in the first safe country you come to, many boats stop in France first but then travel to the UK afterwards.
    France is a safe country so it really is peculiar. Criminal gangs are running these operations and without the likes of Farage this scandal would continue to go on un-noticed.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 900 ✭✭✭sameoldname


    splashuum wrote: »
    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1374875846051725

    Farage is very recently going hammer and tongs in highlighting the major illegal migration scandal in the UK. He released a startling video showing the true extent of what is going on in the UK right now. The fact that small babies being brought on to these boats is scary. Even if some of these people qualified as refugees, one can only claim refugee status in the first safe country you come to, many boats stop in France first but then travel to the UK afterwards.
    France is a safe country so it really is peculiar. Criminal gangs are running these operations and without the likes of Farage this scandal would continue to go on un-noticed.

    So what he's saying is that leaving the EU didn't reduce illegal migration? I am shocked! SHOCKED!


  • Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    TL;DR

    Nigel Farage is a xenophobic ****.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    I thought farage was a colour not a person?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    TL;DR

    Nigel Farage is a xenophobic ****.
    Are you for fully open borders?
    If not then you might just be someone else's xenophobic ****


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,537 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    splashuum wrote: »
    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1374875846051725

    Farage is very recently going hammer and tongs in highlighting the major illegal migration scandal in the UK. He released a startling video showing the true extent of what is going on in the UK right now. The fact that small babies being brought on to these boats is scary. Even if some of these people qualified as refugees, one can only claim refugee status in the first safe country you come to, many boats stop in France first but then travel to the UK afterwards.
    France is a safe country so it really is peculiar. Criminal gangs are running these operations and without the likes of Farage this scandal would continue to go on un-noticed.

    He a xenophobic racist who's just broken the rules and should be treated as such.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,537 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Looks like the Police have had to get on to the little scumbag:
    Nigel Farage has been visited by police officers who advised him not to breach lockdown restrictions after he travelled to Dover to report on migrants.

    The Brexit Party leader previously told how police were last week “bombarded” with complaints that he defied stay-at-home orders over a separate journey to the East Sussex coast.

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/nigel-farage-visited-by-police-over-lockdown-breaches-over-dover-travel-a4431871.html

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭splashuum


    He a xenophobic racist who's just broken the rules and should be treated as such.

    Can you back up your claims that he's a xenophobic racist?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭splashuum



    The UK government gave 'key worker' status to all journalists.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,537 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    splashuum wrote: »
    Can you back up your claims that he's a xenophobic racist?

    Can you back up your claim that there's a migrant crisis which is being suppressed?
    splashuum wrote: »
    The UK government gave 'key worker' status to all journalists.

    He isn't a journalist.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    He a xenophobic racist who's just broken the rules and should be treated as such.

    Could you post one link, just one that backs up your claim that Farage is racist. Thanks.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭splashuum


    Could you post one link, just one that backs up your claim that Farage is racist. Thanks.

    It’s dangerous to make that sort of accusation. Pretty sad that the poster will not provide any proof.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,390 ✭✭✭Cordell


    I'm quite sure that he considers them scum and he wouldn't shed a tear if the dinghies were sunk instead of rescued.
    But he's also 100% right: they are illegal migrants and the border and the law and order needs to be enforced, otherwise UK will turn into something resembling those 3rd world countries the migrants are fleeing.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    If they are asylum seekers they can claim asylum at a legal point of entry. Since they don't do that and instead break the law by arriving illegally, they should be deported on arrival or alternatively arrested for breaking the law.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Cordell wrote: »
    I'm quite sure that he considers them scum and he wouldn't shed a tear if the dinghies were sunk instead of rescued.
    But he's also 100% right: they are illegal migrants and the border and the law and order needs to be enforced, otherwise UK will turn into something resembling those 3rd world countries the migrants are fleeing.

    It's already a dump. Check out London 999 feed on twitter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Heard that many in France don't really want to stay there, as they have to carry a photo ID card at all times.
    Whereas the uk is a bit softer, so much easier to be absorbed in the black market, mix labour with welfare, run a double identity, and so on.

    In terms of having left the EU, that's something really still in-process, and won't be any real actual noticable changes until Jan2021.
    Perchance of a delay too if GDP figures, give them the appearance of the sick man of Europe (in more ways than one).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Loozer


    Cordell wrote: »
    I'm quite sure that he considers them scum and he wouldn't shed a tear if the dinghies were sunk instead of rescued.
    But he's also 100% right: they are illegal migrants and the border and the law and order needs to be enforced, otherwise UK will turn into something resembling those 3rd world countries the migrants are fleeing.

    They weren't scum when Britain ruled the waves and they worked for nothing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Just send them back to their country of origin and be done with them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,381 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    splashuum wrote: »
    The UK government gave 'key worker' status to all journalists.




    farage is not a journalist so the rule doesn't apply to him.
    he's a failed politician who has been rejected multiple times by the uk electorate, and a failed MEP who i believe rarely if ever turned up to meetings discussing the issues he uses to push his agenda.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭jay0109


    farage is not a journalist so the rule doesn't apply to him.
    he's a failed politician who has been rejected multiple times by the uk electorate, and a failed MEP who i believe rarely if ever turned up to meetings discussing the issues he uses to push his agenda.

    Love him or loathe him, he is one of the most successful politicians of all time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,508 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    farage is not a journalist so the rule doesn't apply to him.
    he's a failed politician who has been rejected multiple times by the uk electorate, and a failed MEP who i believe rarely if ever turned up to meetings discussing the issues he uses to push his agenda.

    I despise the little shlt, but he's probably the most successful MEP in history. He had one major goal; to get the UK and it's 65 million inhabitants out of the EU, and he achieved that. No mean feat.

    He won 5/6 EU elections, so a failed MEP he is not.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭jackboy


    farage is not a journalist so the rule doesn't apply to him.
    he's a failed politician who has been rejected multiple times by the uk electorate, and a failed MEP who i believe rarely if ever turned up to meetings discussing the issues he uses to push his agenda.

    He is one of the most successful politicians in the history of the UK. The brexit referendum would not have happened without him. He has been instrumental in changing the UK and Europe forever. Very few politicians have had such influence.

    This doesn’t mean that what he has achieved is good but that he has achieved something incredibly ambitious.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Loozer


    jay0109 wrote: »
    Love him or loathe him, he is one of the most successful politicians of all time.

    Really

    I thought he was a failed politician


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭jay0109


    Loozer wrote: »
    Really

    I thought he was a failed politician

    Well, you know what thought did....stuck a feather in the ground and thought it'd grow a chicken!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Loozer wrote: »
    Really

    I thought he was a failed politician

    You know what happened to thought, he pissed in the bed and thought he was sweating


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Loozer


    jay0109 wrote: »
    Well, you know what thought did....stuck a feather in the ground and thought it'd grow a chicken!

    How'd he do at the last election


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭jay0109


    Loozer wrote: »
    How'd he do at the last election

    He got Brexit on the agenda, then forced that agenda to a vote ....and we know what happened next.
    He's been elected 4 times in a row to the European Parliament.
    Yes he's failed to get elected as an MP.

    Whatever you think of him, he has had a phenomenal career in political terms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭US2


    Failed MEP hahaha like a Real Madirid football supporter saying messi is a failed footballer. People just cant remove there bias its mad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,390 ✭✭✭Cordell


    Loozer wrote: »
    They weren't scum when Britain ruled the waves and they worked for nothing

    The brits of today owe them nothing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭DelaneyIn


    He a xenophobic racist who's just broken the rules and should be treated as such.

    Imagine being more annoyed about this than the literal boats full of illegal immigrants flooding into the U.K.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Cordell wrote: »
    The brits of today owe them nothing.

    Fully agree with you here, the morons making this argument haven't 2 brain cells to rub together, they still think Britain owes the world an apology, Douglas Murray spoke well about this before, can't link to it but a YouTube search will get it, basically saying Britain owes the world nothing for what happened historically


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Could you post one link, just one that backs up your claim that Farage is racist. Thanks.
    splashuum wrote: »
    It’s dangerous to make that sort of accusation. Pretty sad that the poster will not provide any proof.

    Farage's teacher thought he was racist.
    In the late 1970s and early eighties the Ukip leader was a pupil at Dulwich College in south London, one of Britain’s most prestigious schools. Channel 4 News has uncovered strong evidence that teachers at Dulwich thought Nigel Farage was “racist”, and “fascist” or “neo-fascist”.
    The letter continues: “Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Fully agree with you here, the morons making this argument haven't 2 brain cells to rub together, they still think Britain owes the world an apology, Douglas Murray spoke well about this before, can't link to it but a YouTube search will get it, basically saying Britain owes the world nothing for what happened historically

    Would that be the xenophobic Douglas Murray?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon



    A letter written by a deceased teacher about a 'school friend' who accused Farage of racism - published in a biased publication is not evidence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,832 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Fully agree with you here, the morons making this argument haven't 2 brain cells to rub together, they still think Britain owes the world an apology, Douglas Murray spoke well about this before, can't link to it but a YouTube search will get it, basically saying Britain owes the world nothing for what happened historically




    That's all a bit silly. Unless you mean in the same sense that they claim they don't owe 39bn to the EU i.e. that they'd prefer that it wasn't true and don't want to pay it?


    There are countries in the world which are still suffering, directly and indirectly, from the hangovers of colonisation. Whereas the UK still has wealth it amassed from it.





    The ironic thing is that the French are still keeping back the non-EU migrants on their side of the "border". There'll be some craic if he gets his fabulous no-deal and then when current arrangements run out the French remove said barriers. I wouldn't see why the French should be spending their citizens' money "protecting" UK borders


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    A letter written by a deceased teacher about a 'school friend' who accused Farage of racism - published in a biased publication is not evidence.

    What was asked for was something to back up the claim. That article backs it up.

    Can you provide proof that Channel 4 is a biased publication?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    That's all a bit silly. Unless you mean in the same sense that they claim they don't owe 39bn to the EU i.e. that they'd prefer that it wasn't true and don't want to pay it?


    There are countries in the world which are still suffering, directly and indirectly, from the hangovers of colonisation. Whereas the UK still has wealth it amassed from it.





    The ironic thing is that the French are still keeping back the non-EU migrants on their side of the "border". There'll be some craic if he gets his fabulous no-deal and then when current arrangements run out the French remove said barriers. I wouldn't see why the French should be spending their citizens' money "protecting" UK borders

    Not to mention that a strong advocate supporter for the US war on terror which many view as a stepping stone if not the start leading to much of the immigration from the middle east today was the UK Government.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    The UK, more so urbanised England has reached a point where illegal immigration doesn't really matter anymore, they might as well all just be allowed in,

    A globally omnipresent language that an 8 year old could learn in a week.

    A bottomless pit of Southall's, Hounslow's, Luton's, Newham's, Tower Hamlets, Wolverhampton's, Birmingham's and Lancashire mill towns to vanish into.

    Completely unregistered housing and employment populace.

    Seven decades of laissez-faire open house immigration.

    Causing geopolitical chaos riding Uncle Sam's coat tails wrecking Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan and bankrolling the Saudi's wrecking Yemen all in turn creating more waves of migration just for the sake of trying to come across to the dumbed-down-by-Murdoch populace as 'big players on the world stage'.

    Claim asylum in France and you're marooned in a strange country with a foreign language and will probably end up on the fringes of Paris or Marseilles surrounded by colonials who don't want you there and have nothing in common with. Why go to all this trouble when the pan-global commons room is but 21 miles away?

    They've brought all this on themselves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,381 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    DelaneyIn wrote: »
    Imagine being more annoyed about this than the literal boats full of illegal immigrants flooding into the U.K.

    well yeah, it's hard to be more annoyed at people trying to seek a better life all be it illegally, then an individual taking a non-essential trip to dover to push an agenda during a pandemic.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭DelaneyIn


    well yeah, it's hard to be more annoyed at people trying to seek a better life all be it illegally, then an individual taking a non-essential trip to dover to push an agenda during a pandemic.

    What are they fleeing from in France?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Would that be the xenophobic Douglas Murray?

    Yea thats him


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    There are countries in the world which are still suffering, directly and indirectly, from the hangovers of colonisation. Whereas the UK still has wealth it amassed from it.

    And in most cases, the problems that happened post colonialism arose from their choices in how they developed themselves. Embracing communism, inviting dodgy corporations in, dictators, ethnic cleansing, corruption, etc.

    Colonialism is just a convenient excuse to pass off responsibility for their own mistakes. Quite a few countries successfully moved past colonialism without those problems. At what stage do we stop making excuses by blaming the colonial power? A hundred years? two? Never?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    What was asked for was something to back up the claim. That article backs it up.

    No it does not. That article is an anecdotal story with no evidence at all. That does not prove to me that Farage is racist.

    Imagine I accused you of being racist. Now imagine I went to the press with the accusation and the only evidence I had was a 30 year old story by a former teacher that was based on second hand information by another student. I dont think I really need to explain it any further. The article is a complete fabricated smear job the likes of which Farage has dealt with his entire career.

    The problem is, he is right and he is a winner. If people cannot tackle his arguments, they simply try to smear him. Its the age old tactic of the left.
    Can you provide proof that Channel 4 is a biased publication?

    C4 were staunchly anti Brexit. It was (and still is) clear for anyone to see...

    "Channel 4 News is biased against the Tories, say its own journalists"

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1214627/channel-four-left-wing-bias-against-tories-boris-johnson-bbc-labour-jeremy-corbyn

    "Channel 4's John Snow in anti Brexit chant at Glastonbury"

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/30/boycott-channel-4-news-jon-snows-labour-bias-former-tory-minister/

    "Channel 4's coverage 'anti-Brexit'"

    https://www.thearticle.com/it-is-time-for-a-parliamentary-enquiry-into-bias-in-the-british-media

    "Brexit Party drops out of TV leaders’ debate claiming broadcaster is unfair"

    https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/brexit-party-drops-out-of-tv-leaders-debate-claiming-broadcaster-is-unfair-1-6395180

    "Ex-Speaker John Bercow whose anti-Brexit bias sparked fury across Britain joins list of controversial choices to deliver Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message"

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7759237/Ex-Speaker-John-Bercow-deliver-Channel-4s-Alternative-Christmas-Message.html

    And lets not forget their expensive, ****ty pile of stinking propaganda starring Benedict Cumberbatch "Brexit: The Uncivil War"

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8425058/


  • Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    biko wrote: »
    Are you for fully open borders?
    If not then you might just be someone else's xenophobic ****

    What does open borders have to do with having a prejudice against people from other countries?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,832 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    And in most cases, the problems that happened post colonialism arose from their choices in how they developed themselves. Embracing communism, inviting dodgy corporations in, dictators, ethnic cleansing, corruption, etc.

    Colonialism is just a convenient excuse to pass off responsibility for their own mistakes. Quite a few countries successfully moved past colonialism without those problems. At what stage do we stop making excuses by blaming the colonial power? A hundred years? two? Never?




    Perhaps the people in those countries also have low IQs? Maybe their colonisers were right and doing them a favour in colonising the savages?




    Same as how if the UK and US ever finally get pull out of the Middle East and an ensuing power vacuum allows local warlords to completely take over regions, it won't be because the US/UK destroyed normal civil structures, it'll be because the locals are stupid. Most importantly, it'll be the locals own fault!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,149 ✭✭✭✭Lemming


    well yeah, it's hard to be more annoyed at people trying to seek a better life all be it illegally, then an individual taking a non-essential trip to dover to push an agenda during a pandemic.

    This entire thread is four pages too long; the only agenda being pushed is "Farage Inc". by an odious failed MP-wannabe trying to reinvent himself in the eyes of the meeeja an an effort to make himself relevant so he can continue with the trappings of his lifestyle.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Perhaps the people in those countries also have low IQs?

    Don't see the point of this line of logic. That kind of rubbish hasn't been popular for a long time.
    Maybe their colonisers were right and doing them a favour in colonising the savages?

    Maybe they were. There were benefits to colonialism, and some nations were worse than others. Also if the European powers hadn't done it, there's no guarantee that they wouldn't have been occupied by their neighbors, or a newer colonial power. Countries engage in expansion. Colonialism in some cases limited the use of genocide against weaker culture groups.
    Same as how if the UK and US ever finally get pull out of the Middle East and an ensuing power vacuum allows local warlords to completely take over regions, it won't be because the US/UK destroyed normal civil structures, it'll be because the locals are stupid. Most importantly, it'll be the locals own fault!

    You're mixing colonialism with modern meddling. There's a difference. Britain's colonial presence in the M.East essentially ended over 50/60 years ago. And what did those countries do after the British left?

    You're wanting me to say that people were stupid, because it makes me sound unreasonable... but the truth is that people make mistakes. Hindsight is a wonderful and convenient tool. But those mistakes do carry responsibility, or they should.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Perhaps the people in those countries also have low IQs? Maybe their colonisers were right and doing them a favour in colonising the savages?

    Going by the way they run their countries at the moment, including countries in africa previously colonised by other European nations it's hard to argue with that logic, the only thing stopping these countries from annihilating each other is international pressure to act like civilised nations and the lure of the cash cow of hand outs to countries rich in natural resources, were still giving billions in aid to india, why would a country with a space program and nuclear weapons need aid, central African nations still getting billions despite 1 party dog eat dog rule and selling everything to china.
    I firmly believe some countries cannot be civilised, no amount of aid and education will get rid of a caste system established a long time before foreign colonisation, or a belief that women are second class citizens, or that a white rhinos horn is a love potion for some rich business men in Hong Kong, these people act worse than animals and no amount of free passports or aid will change them, if it hasn't worked up to now there's little hope for the future, send them home and let them sort out their own countries, the only immigrants allowed entry into westernized countries should have degrees or skills needed to promote healthy safe progressive living, we have enough free loaders and problems of our own without importing them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,832 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Perhaps you people agree that some Western powers like US (or even UK, putting "power" in inverted commas) should invade those countries and impose some discipline on those low IQ savages for their own good? Maybe the Western powers could even do them a favour if the country has some pesky natural resources and remove them?

    If the Western powers aren't up to the job, maybe China or Russia would do us all a favour and step up to the plate

    Is it just de blacks or is it also the likes of the Syrians or Iraqi's who are thick? Well the Syrians just collectively got thick over the last decade. Before then it was a safe country with a highly educated population. Similar to how the Lebanese suddenly got thick a few decades earlier. It must be some kind of recessive thickness gene that switches on suddenly?


    Do you not know that the same attitudes were prevalent against the Irish until the 1980's or even later? We had independence for 50-60 years and were still poor. Must have been low IQ given that the Brits were long gone. I mean we ceased to be a de-facto colony in the early 1920's. We should have been world leaders by the 1930's.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Going by the way they run their countries at the moment, including countries in africa previously colonised by other European nations it's hard to argue with that logic, the only thing stopping these countries from annihilating each other is international pressure to act like civilised nations and the lure of the cash cow of hand outs to countries rich in natural resources, were still giving billions in aid to india, why would a country with a space program and nuclear weapons need aid, central African nations still getting billions despite 1 party dog eat dog rule and selling everything to china.

    Fair enough. Little I would argue against here.
    I firmly believe some countries cannot be civilised, no amount of aid and education will get rid of a caste system established a long time before foreign colonisation, or a belief that women are second class citizens, or that a white rhinos horn is a love potion for some rich business men in Hong Kong, these people act worse than animals and no amount of free passports or aid will change them, if it hasn't worked up to now there's little hope for the future, send them home and let them sort out their own countries, the only immigrants allowed entry into westernized countries should have degrees or skills needed to promote healthy safe progressive living, we have enough free loaders and problems of our own without importing them

    civilised.... civilised in what manner? I assume you're holding up western civilisation as the standard to reach... but many western nations often fail to meet such standards, or we dismiss the breaches of behavior as being unimportant.

    I would disagree though. All countries can improve upon themselves, and create a greater standard for their people. As for these people being worse than animals, that's far too broad a generalisation. Some people are that way, and they're not the majority in any nation. While I find the caste system in India to be a horrible system, most Indian people are respectful and nice to each other. It's just a different cultural group with customs I wouldn't want to live under. With China, those who are abusive are, again, a minority. China, overall, is very civilised depending on where you are, and the types of people you spend your time with. It's less than 50 years since China has a hardline communist state, and it will take time for that to dissipate, along with the improvements within their society to evolve/establish.

    Lastly, typically, Europe has very few problems with Asians. They work hard, and don't cause trouble. They keep to themselves, and allow themselves to be integrated into the local culture. I wouldn't see Asians as freeloaders, because they do seek to establish themselves. That's generally not the case with other national groups, especially when religion is mixed in.


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