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Natapoc wrote:

Instead of talking about the problems of refugees, why not speak instead of the policies which create conditions that force people to abandon their homes? The fact is, Iraq, Syria, Afganistan, Northern Africa are all hot spots of western imperialism. Their valuable natural resources are highly sought after, but the proceeds are not equally distributed.
If Europeans and Americans do not want desperate refugees fleeing their home countries for a safer place, then they should stop making these people's home countries miserable places to live via exploitative practices and constant war.

...I'll add that functionally speaking, a focus on spreading "multiculturalism," and diversity generally, can often serve the West's exploitative policies by divorcing them from the narrative of their victims. I remember in church as a kid, we heard a lot about the victims of El Salvadoran death squads, and about how it was the right thing to do to welcome people who'd fled, often several thousand miles all on foot, to reach the United States. Not one word about how the U.S. itself was aiding and abetting many of those murders, all in the name of halting communism. This let us feel good about ourselves for welcoming people, while still materially supporting, without even a token protest, the same policies that led to their being there in the first place.