It’s all racism, all the way down, everywhere people are moving across our imaginary lines on the dirt.
Lots of people are deeply, childishly afraid of being surrounded by people who look and talk different, and that teeny, undeveloped personality flaw has had catastrophic consequences on our whole species, leading to some of the worst atrocities humans have ever committed.
And as the climate changes and weather becomes more extreme, crops will be harder to raise, clean water will be harder to find, and more and more people are going to move further towards milder climates and more developed nations out of desperation. I shudder to imagine how we’re going to treat these people broadly.
Calling it all racism is a thought-terminating cliche. Not all groups of humans have the same societal values, and that is not intrinsically tied to race. It is economic in origin. There certainly are racists like you describe, but they are most likely a vocal minority.
The wealthier a society becomes, the more picky it can afford to become. Personal autonomy can be selected for easier when hand to mouth subsistence isn’t taking up 100% of your time. Things like Abrahamic religious laws arise from subsistence societies. This doesn’t make cultural friction any less real or impactful.
Women’s rights and abolition of child marriage is the result of privilege, but that doesn’t mean they are bad things. When “most” people talk about integration, they are broadly talking about adoption of those values.
To your final point, sadly a mass reduction in habitable land will almost inevitably result in reciprocal population loss. Probably violently through wars of conquest for the remaining resources.
I didn’t use it to terminate thought though, I explained the source of the position and what it means. That was half the comment. We don’t have a better word for it, it comes down to races.
Not all groups of humans have the same societal values
Yah, lets bring them in and help them get out of harmful values like child marriage by making it a less desirable outcome by making sure their needs are met and there’s no excuse to keep practicing things that harm kids. (And of course, make it fucking illegal like we do with a lot of other things. Do you think it’s just brown people from “over there” who traffic children and other horrible acts? Is it only people with “different societal values” who dedicate entire islands to raping kids?)
But if you really think if borders fell tomorrow your neighbors are going to be selling child-brides, you’re also deluded by the completely societal construct that is borders broadly.
Everything you’re scared of foreigners about is a fear that’s been placed there BY the borders, not the other way around. The lines aren’t protecting you from them, the lines are protecting you from valuing the lives of others as much as your own.
No, it’s clearly not “brown people from over there”. What you are describing is assimilation into your culture. That requires that the people immigrating want to assimilate and join “you”. Also, a subset of sickos within “Western” culture being pedos is not the same as a society that believes child marriage is normal (or preferable).
Fundamentalist Christianity (any denomination or offshoot) is generally a “white people” culture and is also fundamentally incompatible with Western liberal society just as much as Islam is or Hindu caste is etc, so no, it is not just a “brown people” thing. White Christians don’t need to keep practicing things that harm kids, but it is part of their culture so they still do. And they influence or attempt to set the law to conform to their cultural beliefs. That is the concern with non-assimilation and mass immigration of any kind, anywhere.
It’s all racism, all the way down, everywhere people are moving across our imaginary lines on the dirt.
Lots of people are deeply, childishly afraid of being surrounded by people who look and talk different, and that teeny, undeveloped personality flaw has had catastrophic consequences on our whole species, leading to some of the worst atrocities humans have ever committed.
And as the climate changes and weather becomes more extreme, crops will be harder to raise, clean water will be harder to find, and more and more people are going to move further towards milder climates and more developed nations out of desperation. I shudder to imagine how we’re going to treat these people broadly.
Calling it all racism is a thought-terminating cliche. Not all groups of humans have the same societal values, and that is not intrinsically tied to race. It is economic in origin. There certainly are racists like you describe, but they are most likely a vocal minority.
The wealthier a society becomes, the more picky it can afford to become. Personal autonomy can be selected for easier when hand to mouth subsistence isn’t taking up 100% of your time. Things like Abrahamic religious laws arise from subsistence societies. This doesn’t make cultural friction any less real or impactful.
Women’s rights and abolition of child marriage is the result of privilege, but that doesn’t mean they are bad things. When “most” people talk about integration, they are broadly talking about adoption of those values.
To your final point, sadly a mass reduction in habitable land will almost inevitably result in reciprocal population loss. Probably violently through wars of conquest for the remaining resources.
I didn’t use it to terminate thought though, I explained the source of the position and what it means. That was half the comment. We don’t have a better word for it, it comes down to races.
Yah, lets bring them in and help them get out of harmful values like child marriage by making it a less desirable outcome by making sure their needs are met and there’s no excuse to keep practicing things that harm kids. (And of course, make it fucking illegal like we do with a lot of other things. Do you think it’s just brown people from “over there” who traffic children and other horrible acts? Is it only people with “different societal values” who dedicate entire islands to raping kids?)
But if you really think if borders fell tomorrow your neighbors are going to be selling child-brides, you’re also deluded by the completely societal construct that is borders broadly.
Everything you’re scared of foreigners about is a fear that’s been placed there BY the borders, not the other way around. The lines aren’t protecting you from them, the lines are protecting you from valuing the lives of others as much as your own.
No, it’s clearly not “brown people from over there”. What you are describing is assimilation into your culture. That requires that the people immigrating want to assimilate and join “you”. Also, a subset of sickos within “Western” culture being pedos is not the same as a society that believes child marriage is normal (or preferable).
Fundamentalist Christianity (any denomination or offshoot) is generally a “white people” culture and is also fundamentally incompatible with Western liberal society just as much as Islam is or Hindu caste is etc, so no, it is not just a “brown people” thing. White Christians don’t need to keep practicing things that harm kids, but it is part of their culture so they still do. And they influence or attempt to set the law to conform to their cultural beliefs. That is the concern with non-assimilation and mass immigration of any kind, anywhere.