• Hyperreality@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I find it depressing that not wanting migrants to drown, is framed as ‘support for migrants’ and somehow left wing.

    If a suspected rapist was drowning in a pond, I’d expect the police to save them, then jail them. Leaving people to die without any right to a trial or to be heard, is simply sociopathic.

    It’s perfectly possible to have a hardline anti-migration policy, which doesn’t involve allowing thousands of people to drown.

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      1 year ago

      3 billionaires and young adult vs 300 migrants. The world was mad at us for not caring about 4 billionaires, not themselves for not caring about 300 migrants.

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      1 year ago

      In concept, sure, it’s possible. In practice, as we see here, the sorts of people who have hardline anti-immigration opinions tend to do so because they see those migrants as being less than fully human.