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Re:Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 by antihipocrat on Sunday May 25, 2025 @06:54PM (#44092022)
You raise great points here. It's very interesting how the term racist (from the post you're responding to) gets thrown around by people to shut down every side of the discussion depending on what their objectives are.

It's racist for people born in or who are citizens of a country - today - to resist the governing class allowing foreigners to immigrate to benefit the economy AND it's racist policy - historically - for a governing class to push immigration on a natively born population for economic reasons.

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Re:Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 by idiotsecant on Sunday May 25, 2025 @10:33PM (#44093419)
It's striking to me that a certain kind of person is willing to endure demographic collapse and all that entails, just so that they don't have to see so many brown people.
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Re:Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 by antihipocrat on Monday May 26, 2025 @07:52AM (#44096507)
You make a lot of assumptions here.

Instead let's try a hypothetical. Perhaps someone has a historically oppressed indigenous background (perhaps they even have brown skin) it is possible that they may not want any more immigration into their lands.

In my opinion that would be a very understandable position for them to take given the historical circumstances.

The economic argument isn't as clear cut as you suggest either. An economy with excess supply of underutilized labour isn't going to see many gains from immigration.. There's market distortion to consider with regard to housing supply as well, and plenty of other reasons someone may take a valid position against immigration without being racist

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Re:Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 by arandomusername on Monday May 26, 2025 @02:59PM (#44100469)
It's striking to me that a certain kind of person is willing to endure the genocide of their people and all that entails, just so they can enjoy cheap labour.
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Re:Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 by rawgabbit on Sunday May 25, 2025 @11:30PM (#44093709)
You could come out and say the B word. The British transplanted a massive number of people throughout their colonial possessions which later fueled ethic violence.

https://britishonlinearchives.com/posts/category/articles/62...

https://asiatimes.com/2019/06/malaysias-indians-face-growing...

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-22-mn-43757...

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