Not only are the countries he is saying have “fine” refugees don’t even speak English as an official language, Africa as a continent has the largest amount of countries that speak English:
Most other African countries speak French, Spanish or another European language as an official language. So what is the issue here? Many Africans have immigrated to Western countries and have integrated fine. It’s insane that Twitch is allowing this kind of rhetoric to be displayed in full velocity on this platform.
What he says might be unpopular on this platform, but I don’t see the racism in it. Integrating large numbers of people from a completely different culture into your society is extremely difficult – if not outright impossible. Exhibit A: Sweden.
This is one of those things where dismissing people who are worried about this stuff as racists or xenophobes just alienates them – and pushes them to vote for the actual racists and xenophobes instead. That’s how you end up where the US is today.
Of course Sweden, the dogwhistle for the racists and fascists trying to insist on the ““Islamification”” of Europe.
You’re claiming ignorance on what can be explained by malice. There’s no excuse for ignorance in this day and age when access to information is so open. These far-right fuckwits don’t want integration, they want a race war. They want white supremacy.
The concerned citizen shtick is bullshit to cover for racism. Trying to appease them has proven time and time again to be pointless. The argument for not “alienating” the far-right is literally just “give them exactly what they want”.
Appreciate the live demo of exactly what I was talking about.
Instead of engaging with the argument, you go straight to branding me a racist. This is why the far-right keeps gaining ground - not because people agree with them, but because they’re sick of being shouted down any time they try to talk about real issues. Apparently things still aren’t bad enough for that lesson to sink in.
EDIT: Ironically this just in: Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners
Counterpoint, attempting to appease and cater to racists is the Ratchet Effect in action. This hasn’t caused racists to actually vote for Democratic candidates, rather it simply moves the Overton Window rightward.
God forbid the racist asshat doesn’t feel welcome on the internet. Fuck asmongold, he is stupid and this argument is stupid, racist and made in bad faith. He is plain wrong, don’t defend the racist.
explain sweden, please
Massive amounts of refugees and immigrants since 2015, failure to integrate, gang violence, shootings and bombings among the highest per capita in Europe, and the rise of the right-wing nationalist Sweden Democrats.
Sweden basically became the cautionary tale among the Nordic countries of how not to handle mass immigration.
Edit: Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners
Yeah ok.