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HM King Charles III DG FD

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A sinner and a Fediverse Advocate.

Proud citizen of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧 Proud citizen of the European Union 🇪🇺

I hate strawmen.

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Disclaimer: not really The King

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • I don't oppose refugees fleeing an unsafe country. I do oppose illegal immigrants coming from a safe country.

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • ... Which are justified in many cases. For a start, as a brit, I don't want a mass amount of Americans coming over here and electing their Trumps and bringing their culture war with them.

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • That's not what this discussion is about, though. It's about illegal immigrants. Not immigrants in general.

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • I think being anti-all-immigration is xenophobic. But it's completely different from being anti illegal immigration or wanting to, for example, stop the immigration of people in certain job markets to help the country's nationals to get jobs.

    What I say is:

    "It's better to bring in 100,000 immigrants who want to fill needed gaps in our society, contribute, build it up and create more jobs, than 10,000 immigrants who just want handouts"

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • That's a strawman. And some people are just hustlers and want money and handouts and see it as something they are entitled to.

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • Immigration and illegal immigration are two different subjects.

    Wouldn't arguing against immigration be xenophobic by default?

    I think there are arguments for certain cultural backgrounds where standards or view on morality might be different. Or worldview. So they aren't necessarily all racist

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • It's not race based, but there are cultures that are less developed and may not blend well with other cultures.

    This even happens with the likes of white American tourists in Japan... Or anywhere for that matter. Even in the UK and Ireland, where they are likely the same ethnicity (I know because they never bleedin shut up about it)

    For example, in some places, if something is given out for free, it may be normal to take as much advantage of it as possible. Or honesty shops- it might be seen as justified to take advantage of the shop owner because they didn't properly put a guard up, in their eyes, so were "asking for it". The latter attitude can also at times happen towards women and how they dress.

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • No. And I am tired of people assuming I'm racist for not wanting idiots coming over in small boats from france

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    You're taking the poop! Dystopian toilet won't give you loo roll unless you watch an advert first

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  • Possibly older folks with famine trauma. In China you get older folks pushing in crowds and such. Even when it's logically pointless.

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    You're taking the poop! Dystopian toilet won't give you loo roll unless you watch an advert first

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  • Most toilets I find there just don't provide it at all.

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    You're taking the poop! Dystopian toilet won't give you loo roll unless you watch an advert first

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  • In China people carry about their own toilet paper. Many public toilets don't provide it at all.

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    You're taking the poop! Dystopian toilet won't give you loo roll unless you watch an advert first

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  • Is this in China? At least this time, providing loo roll in a public bathroom is an improvement....

  • How do Europeans use their digital ID cards if they are not using stock android or iOS?

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  • Should access to computers and the internet be a basic human right?

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  • I unironically think the UK should ban large foreign social media platforms unless the incorporate ActivityPub

  • Should access to computers and the internet be a basic human right?

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  • Don't see why it should be

  • Has a stranger's reply to you on social media ever changed your strongly-held belief(s)?

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  • What

  • FFS Plex, the server is on my local network

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  • Has a stranger's reply to you on social media ever changed your strongly-held belief(s)?

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  • Yes

  • To slumber like that

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  • Means you get a break from the (((chaos)))