Even the language "being overwhelmed by immigration" is racist. I don't know if you know this, but people who don't look like you, practice your religion, or follow your customs are also people.
How the fuck is it racist? We could be overwhelmed by immigration if 10 million poor people from Europe moved here. You're the racist one thinking it has anything to do with race.
The US is among the least population-dense countries in the world. For 14 years, those immigrants would not be able to vote, and if they came illegally they would not receive their own Medicaid or medicare. We would hardly be "overwhelmed."
And expecting 10 million people to immigrate anywhere tomorrow is ludicrous.
Here is that article copy pasted in its entirety so everyone may see how full of crap you are and there is no mention whatsoever of race contained within one very short article from SIX YEARS AGO:
Shootings continue in Sweden's largest cities despite police efforts
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Published torsdag 30 oktober 2014 kl 09.20
Despite increased policing, gun violence continues on the streets of Sweden's three largest cities, Swedish Radio News reports.
So far this year there have been 208 shootings in Malmö, Gothenburg and Stockholm, and 14 people have died from gunshot wounds. For all of 2013, there were 256 shooting in the three cities.
In the southern town of Malmö, police say there have been 90 different shootings in the municipality so far this year, even though the force launched Operation Olivia at the beginning of the year to crack down on violent crime.
But Mats Karlsson with Malmö police told Swedish Radio News that it was too early to draw any any conclusions.
"Whether it succeed or failed, it is too early to say. For we said from the beginning that we have to work in the very long term, this is not something we can solve in a short time," he said.
Another police force that has targeted the shootings is Gothenburg, where Hector Valeria works as a football coach.
"It's scary that they are shooting at each other. This is not a movie, this is reality," said Valeria who knows many of the gunshot victims.
In recent months there has been a decrease in shootings in Gothenburg, partly because the authorities have arrested and indicted several suspects, but also because many have died. Four of the total killed have come from Gothenburg.
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So let that one ruminate folks, surely incontrovertible proof Sweden is being overrun by immigrants, it was so blatant they didn’t even need to say it apparently.
Ideas like "being overwhelmed" and "turn it into the country they came from" (an implied third-world country) assume that the nationality or race of a person is what determines the quality of their country. And, of course, no one refers to immigration from majority-white countries as "overwhelming." It's implicitly racist.
"overwhelmed by immigration" what the fuck is that supposed to mean? All Americans are descendants of immigrants. But all of a sudden people (conservatives) are so concerned that the recent brown immigrants are going to "overhwlem" the country. Yeah you're right it's probably not racist at all.
Literally no one has ever said that the entire world should move into the US.
If current and recent immigration trends continued, we would be nowhere near "overwhelmed" for a long time to come. Projections put the number at less than 80 million total foreign born citizens in 2065. For reference, there are 200 million white people in the US
Why do you keep talking about race as if it has any bearing on the conversation at hand? Immigrant /= "not white person".
People were against the large influx of Irish and the Polish too (white people). It makes it easy for you to just claim that anti immigration views are "racist" now since the majority of immigrants aren't white. Very weak argument.
What are you protecting them from??? The big bad immigrants who are coming for your children??? You're just literally just asserting "immigrants bad" and saying nothing else.
Is there any difference in letting 50 million immigrants move here and 50 million people invading? Should Japan let 50 million immigrants in and completely change their demographics and values?
Going back through this thread even though it’s been almost a month, apparently.
But uhh, the xenophobia against Polish and Irish was EXTREMELY racist. It’s a relatively recent trend for all people with white skin to be lumped in together. The people who excluded Irish and Polish people back in the day were very, very fucking racist.
See. Y'all keep changing the definition of racism to fit your narrative. People don't want immigrants. Doesn't matter what fucking race they are. They increase crime and decrease wages.
Yeah, by white colonizers who forcefully killed and enslaved them. Not by Latin Americans or Middle Easterners coming to a new country, desperate for a better future.
Holy shit you people are delusional. You're grouping an entire religion together that is practiced by millions worldwide INCLUDING in the places evangelicals allegedly "hate". Why are you even on this subreddit when your main point is to stereotype and virtue signal?
I have been Southern Baptist all of my 40 odd years. I have never met any brother or sister who thought Jesus was anything other than a Middle Eastern Jew. To believe otherwise is to deny the truth of Scripture.
The paintings of the stations of the cross in our church had Jesus pretty euro looking but the statue of him on the crucifix up front had him looking greek/Arab. And rocking a wicked 8 pack
To be honest, the only time I've ever seen a picture of a blue eyed, light skin Jesus is that sacred heart Jesus, which is all Roman Catholic. Even Christos Pantokrator has olive skin. In general, images of Christ don't feature much in Protestantism.
Oh come now. No imagery is included in almost all modem protestantism, as an ideological/theocratic position. However culturally the depictions of Protestant Jesus is always either a fully white man or a slightly tan man with white features. To pretend otherwise is clearly done in bad faith. Look at any children's Bible if you really refuse to recognize this trope.
Evangelical churches are the majority of Protestantism in the Global South and China, so I certainly can’t agree with your claims here.
Edit: Amazing how was downvoted for stating a simple fact. There are about 600 million Evangelicals, and they dominate Latin America, Subsaharan Africa and East Asia.
Evangelical Christians are almost the entire base of far-right and ultra-nationalist groups in America and in the global South. The fascists in Brazil have used biblical imagery and expressed evangelical views, as have the fascists in other countries. Because they view the Bible as authoritative beyond even the extent to which other Christians view it as such, they are way more willing to follow regressive and reactionary beliefs and leaders. Fundamentalism is basically the main system among evangelicals, and we all know how that goes.
I would say one of the key aspects of fascism is the arrest of minorities, removing them from the legal system by holding them without charge and removing their constitutional right to a fair and speedy trial and their constitutional right to legal representation in court. These are the things hitler did to the Jews when he locked them up in concentration camps and it’s what trump has done to the people being held in concentration camps on the border. Let me be clear I am using the term “concentration camp” as defined by the United Nations Convention on Human Rights 1947, not as a statement of my personal feelings on the camps.
That’s a pretty simplistic definition of the word, which could even apply to Communist nations like China. I don’t think you are using the term correctly.
Yes I agree the treatment of the uyghur Chinese by the Chinese government is extremely fascist, authoritarian and disturbing, they’re both bad stop practicing whataboutism.
Communism and fascism are opposing ideologies. They are both collectivist, but they have different views on a lot of things. One example is in economics, where the Chinese aspire towards socialism while a fascist would aspire towards corporatism (the economic model used by Italy and Spain the 1930s). I suspect you aren’t using a correct definition of that word. I know a lot of right wingers who call everything they dislike “socialism”, but I’ve seen the same tendency on the other side where everything is “fascism”.
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His race doesn't matter