Re:Shall the West Pass Too? Whispers from Fallen Civilisations
by throw_for_now on Sunday July 19, 2020 @03:31PM
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I'm sorry for the question, but I'm reading this sort of
opinion more and more frequently here:
Do you think the whole world has a right to enter Europe? Isn't this an amazing form of entitlement?
Re:Shall the West Pass Too? Whispers from Fallen Civilisations
by woodruffw on Sunday July 19, 2020 @03:36PM
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> Do you think the whole world has a right to enter Europe? Isn't this an amazing form of entitlement?
As every European country agrees[1], refugees certainly do have the right to request asylum in Europe. There's nothing "entitled" about fleeing death, violence, and privation.
That's the base case, and the one this blog post seems to be opposed to. More elaborate cases require more discussion, but you'll have to forgive me if I'm not inclined to spend time on that with a throwaway account.
[1]: https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/1951-refugee-convention.html
I'll take that at face value.
> If what you quoted is the dog whistle, what is the decoded message that the in crowd would be hearing?
Both tie closely into bog-standard reactionary and white nationalist rhetoric. The first is a dogwhistle for "the great replacement," or the conspiracy theory that Europeans (meaning, to them, whites) are being intentionally replaced by migrants as a method of control. The latter ties closely to a crowd that calls themselves "white nationalist" but not "white supremacist" -- they insist that they don't believe in the superiority of whites, and only want isolation for "fundamentally different cultures" (by which they mean races). It should be apparent that this is really just white supremacy with more steps, especially if (as this introduction proposes) the European continent functionally becomes the landlord and benevolent overseer of a migrant nation.