Hi, my name is Quinn and I'm a European immigrant. I currently have residency, and hope in a few years to become a citizen, but it's going to be a long road, mosty because I don't have any of the required language skills. And I'm really bad at getting them. Like, awwwfulll.
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I'm also not a great earner, not what most people define as economically productive. I make so little money it barely registers in my adopted country's tax system as a real income. I also have no formal education, no college, didn't even finish high school.
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I'm also a high consumer of social services. I arrived sick, and within my first two years here I've gotten >6 docs, and undergone major surgery at the expense of the state. I have all you can eat PT because of a genetic disease, even.
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True I'm not much for crimes these days, but I've written publicly about doing computer crimes back in the 90s, and childhood invovlement with the drug trade due to my family. I am definitionally from a Bad Element, and I'm open about it.
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Still, when we talk about the "problems of immigration" in the EU, it's so well understood that we all don't mean me that no one even says we don't mean people like you, Quinn. I'm a fine and dandy immigrant, welcome whereever I go.
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So what is it about me that different from those other worrysome immigrants, when I literally check every box people worry about? What could it be? Hmmmmm. Something about how I look, maybe?pic.twitter.com/f28l7lYU5s
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Read this for a different moral perspective http://theanti-puritan.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-object-and-source-on-impossibility.html … Also this https://blog.jim.com/culture/there-are-no-utilitarians/ …
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