Yes, and? How is giving compliments being racist to anyone?
Is saying 'my girlfriend is smart and beautiful' hurtful to every other women? Is my boss saying 'Brian is smart and hard working' insulting to everyone else?
I wish this cringe wokeness and trying to spin everything into racism would stop.
I expected far more from a prestigious paper like The Guardian, instead of tabloid trash like this, but I guess they had a woke quota to fulfill, otherwise some activists on Twitter would call them racist if they hadn't called Europe racist first.
Yeah but when the Gulf states do that it's ok
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34173139
>fears regarding political stability within their own borders, and into larger questions of civic identity and the notion of what being a citizen of a Gulf state means
If a german or french politician says that they are outcasted as a far right extremist
The West has gone above and beyond for Syria, at least my country has.
That said, the refugees streaming out of Ukraine are citizens of a western-ish democracy, are NOT young men of fighting age and could adapt to cultural/religious/civic life very quickly in Slavic countries and quite easily elsewhere in Europe.
Compare that to all the services you need to integrate someone who doesn’t speak an Indo-European language at all, has a religion counter to the dominant culture, is from an autocracy, and is a bored 18-45 year old guy who is not aware of how to find/exploit opportunities available in your country, and who has worked under a completely foreign system of regulations and education, if they have an education at all.
From first and second hand experience with Syrian and African refugees, many have no education because war/instability took the chance from them. Many cannot do the job they had before because either it doesn’t exist or they need licensing. Finally, some got by on nepotism before and are unsuited to the western corporate environment.
These people are no more or less human than Ukrainians, but cost a lot more to put somewhere they can flourish, or even just survive.