I will try to be more balanced in the future. Apologies. My white guilt is showing. It was not my intent to say white people did not do anything good. Obviously they have done a lot of good as well, not because of their race but because every race has smart, kind, brilliant people. No one is denying that.
Good to know that.
But I think there is a lot of
unfair vitriol against immigrants who today happen to be of color. In the past there was a lot of vitriol against Italian, Irish and Polish immigrants, among others, from decades past. I was at the end of those so I know how it feels. Now somehow we'd love to have more people from those countries. Seems odd and ironic.
Finally, don't let the group mentality control you. This is the biggest point I would like to make. It is destroying countries like Ruanda with the Hutus and the Tutsis that was mentioned by
@Domainace and the Mid East with Shiites and the Sunnis. Those are 2 extreme examples to illustrate that group thinking leads to terrible consequences. IMO. We don't have to agree on everything but we should be all be able to agree that the sky is blue and grass is green. In other words, look for common ground and don't call people stupid or idiots because that only closes doors and doesn't accomplish anything healthy.
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Once again I have to remind you that I'm absolutely fine with LEGAL immigration. It's the ILLEGAL ones that I totally oppose. People who cross any countries border illegally is totally wrong and should be sent back to their countries.
Also, trying to compare immigrants from 40, 60 or more years ago to today's illegals is not possible. Those Italians, Poles and Irish didn't have any safety net in the form of help by Sanctuary cities and States, or other forms of Social help, like the recent arrivals have.
They had to work right away or they would starve.
The avalanche of refugees and illegals that entered Europe in the last decade or two aare all given free housing, medical, dentist, school, transport, translators and on top of that they get some pocket money every month, which can vary from €25 to €45 depending on what country they are in. The EU governments spend aprox. 4000-5000 Euros per month for each of these people.
A very high % of them prefer to get all these freebies and do nothing. They can go on getting these generous free benefits for years and years without ever working.
Who supports all of this? It's the taxpayer naturally. And who are all these people that entered Europe illegally? At least 95% come from Arab countries and Africa and the vast majority are Muslim, a religion that believes is superior to the rest of the other Infidel Religions or Atheists.
These are the raw stats and numbers. And then there is also the vastly different cultural and religious habits that are so different from ours. The fact that such a high % of them is not interested in assimilating is also worrying, but that is basically because of their religion...
Why Liberals don't want to acknowledge this is beyond my understanding. Why the filthy rich neighboring countries of Syria like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Emirates, Kuwait, Oman didn't take ONE single Syrian refugee is also incomprehensible and something the Liberal Media NEVER mentions or questions.
Yeah, lots of other other stuff I could mention except I'm getting tired to having to constantly compare LEGAL to ILLEGAL immigration.