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Re:Japan's population falls by record 644,000 to 125.5M in 2021 by BolexNOLA on Saturday May 07, 2022 @03:26PM (#31297723)
> but this smells like the usual progressive tendency to glorify population-importing immigration

That is a massive leap from what I said. I really need you to point out where I “glorified” anything.

> There is nothing wrong about disliking foreigners on one's own land

When you put it that way…yeah something definitely sounds wrong.

Re:Japan's population falls by record 644,000 to 125.5M in 2021 by Banana699 on Saturday May 07, 2022 @05:29PM (#31298788)
>I really need you to point out where I “glorified” anything.

The commenter you replied was questioning if a nation could maintain it's character after wholesale replacement of it's population by other people, and you said yes, and implied that thinking otherwise is dangerous.

>yeah something definitely sounds wrong

What is that something ? If I own a car or a house, I can control who gets inside that car or house, and I can exclude people on whatever basis I like, including race and culture. This is not ideal, but that's the reality. Changing it is likely to be extremly hard and violent.

A country is "owned" by it's population, if a substantial majority of it's population don't want to let certain people into it, why is that such a problem ? Do you think those same people who want to immigrate would welcome a country's worth of people into their own land, if that were to happen ? Nearly every single culture in existence values itself more than others, and feels threatened when it's numbers decrease in relation to another.

Re:Japan's population falls by record 644,000 to 125.5M in 2021 by BolexNOLA on Saturday May 07, 2022 @07:56PM (#31299802)
I’m not touching this. Sorry mate.
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Re:Japan's population falls by record 644,000 to 125.5M in 2021 by BolexNOLA on Sunday May 08, 2022 @10:41AM (#31304480)
You can’t bully/guilt people into conversations they don’t want to have with people they don’t want to talk to. This is obviously an axe-grinding session for you and frankly I don’t want to be a part of it.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.