It has seemed utterly criminal how many immigrants Sweden has taken on in such a short time, when you consider the wider economic policy.
It's the same as the sheer rate of economic globalization. Everything is a "racist dog whistle" if it opposes neoliberal corporate hegemony.
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It's no wonder the nativists get away with so much bullshit when the well has been so thoroughly poisoned by years of propaganda.
There are clearly limits to how well a couple of isolated countries in the EU can absorb cultural & economic shock. Why is it not distributed?
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E.g. countries like Poland and Hungary take HUGE sums of economic help from the EU to "develop" their countries (read: fund their clientelist politics).
How the fuck is it fair that the EU in aggregate pays for this, and then Sweden, Germany etc. pay for the brunt of immigrants?
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And, to qualify that statement a bit, Swedish, German taxpayers fund it, not the corporations and landowners making massive bank on all of it.
It's absurd. There is no argument for putting pressure on some countries to take on immigrants and simultaneously fund others who won't.
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Eh, sorry for ranting about this in your mentions at such length.
I guess I've heard one Pole too many talk to me about "Sharia Sweden" or some other such idiocy. The categorical unfairness of the EU system is utterly infuriating to me. I'm always grateful Norway isn't a member.
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Absent any kind of social net, economic costs at the bottom and human costs are totally commensurate.
GDP growth and other such measures are how many % corporate transactions? The real economy in most of Europe is deflationary. Poland is in "growth" and has 10000s of homeless.
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Growth in diseases of despair and in income & wealth gaps is hardly benign growth.
This is the model I operate under when I say the economic costs concern me. They will appreciate into human costs soon enough.
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I don't mean to categorize demographically.
I think the outsize racism experienced by immigrants in countries with extra-high and extra-low immigration rates is a symptom of political malice.
It's a smoke screen for whatever BS the political-commercial complex is engaged in.
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Whether it's "we're protecting you from BARBARIAN INVADERS" or "you're RACIST if you oppose this political choice", it's malice.
The intent is to offload costs on the population (ALL the population) and anger for economic decline on demographic minorities.
That's how I see it.
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I don't mean to suggest that it isn't objectively worse to be an immigrant in these situations.
You're a citizen, right? You grew up there? You have as much right to call yourself Swedish as anyone, but a nativist will make-pretend otherwise to your detriment. It's a sham.
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