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Re:Iceland long term visa for remote workers by carlosjobim on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:28PM (#35349576)
OK, I dare you to support replacement immigration / colonization against any native people who are not Europeans. The world agreed that it was a horrible thing when it was done against American natives, against Aboriginals and against other people. Why do so many cheer on doing the same thing against European natives?

Slavers used to defend the trans-Atlantic trafficking with the argument that the American natives were too few, didn't produce enough and didn't breed enough. I hear a lot of similar arguments being used against native European peoples today. Should we always repeat history?

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Re:Iceland long term visa for remote workers by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:56PM (#35349891)
Allowing immigration is a long way short of the dystopian scenario painted by the racism of the replacement theory. Iceland willingly calling for people to move there is nothing like the European colonization of the Americas.
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Re:Iceland long term visa for remote workers by carlosjobim on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:33PM (#35350296)
The commenter I responded to literally called for replacement. It is a down right evil policy, responsible for an immense amount of suffering and loss throughout the world. But of course it has been a favorite of various rulers - and they've always had some clergy handy to drum up support for the cause.
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Re:Iceland long term visa for remote workers by jamilton on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:17PM (#35351338)
It was the killing people and colonization that was bad. A country letting people move there is not either of those things, that is a terrible argument. No one is saying "Let's force Iceland at gunpoint to let everyone in".

Every country having open borders would be cool though.

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Re:Iceland long term visa for remote workers by umanwizard on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:54PM (#35351700)
If every country had open borders then in a few generations every country would be essentially culturally identical (and English-speaking), massively reducing the cultural diversity and vibrancy of the human race as a whole.
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Re:Iceland long term visa for remote workers by jamilton on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:36AM (#35369349)
I doubt "vibrancy" would be lower. And there are major cultural differences within countries, including countries that have existed for a very long time. I agree that cultures would merge more, but that is not a bad thing. The same thing is going to happen over a longer time scale with closed borders anyway.
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