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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I think to see this less as an issue with sides, more as a holistic social problem, is on some level helpful.
Obviously people have tribes and will prefer their own, but there's more.
The alt-righters arguing about immigration are on some level insane race theorists, however...
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... it's also clear that e.g. the US has weaponized mass immigration (while running some doublespeak interference about it) to attack poor & middle class wages/labor standards.
It's a very messy process, and nobody seems to want to look at all of the social costs at once.
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I follow pretty much the entire political spectrum on Twitter. I'm curious about EVERYONE, and I don't totally agree or disagree with anyone.
Most people would probably see me as left-wing, some as extreme left, which it's not totally accurate. But I digress.
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I've found the aesthetics of the extreme tribes disgusting, but all seem to have integrated something that the others have not.
They are all on some level good at opposition research, and awful at critical thinking. You have to go to people's opponents to find their blind spots.
The picture that emerges is that there are shibboleths everywhere. Membership in any group comes with a bunch of received wisdom.
Some of it is correct, some of it is utterly insane.
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Yeah, it's a total clown fiesta. There is little to no intertribe communication.
My timeline is full of people misrepresenting each other, jumping at shadows, engaging in their own tribal feedback loops and largely oblivious to "outside". It's uncanny.