It suddenly occurs to me that doomsday preppers must not understand refugees on a fundamental level. These are people who expect society to end & whose response is to store guns & build bunkers. Fleeing to safety makes no sense to them; it’s what they fear “invaders” will do.
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The prepper mindset is anti-society. They don’t *want* to rebuild past survivalism; they want to be feudal despots of their own depraved little fiefdoms. Of course they don’t believe refugees contribute positively to society; it’s the literal opposite of what they plan to do.
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And as they view themselves as the good guys, unique in their secret awareness that society is Evil and deserves to fall, anyone who wants to rebuild or contribute to it - which means taking away their chance to be freaky wilderness cult leaders - is bad.
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I think about this a lot, in the context of my neighborhood after hurricanes Ike and Harvey. If I have prepper neighbors, we didn't see them. We saw the ones out hauling trees out of yards, offering up their grills to cook people's food before it went bad, & sharing cans of gas.
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In 1987, after hurricane Hugo in Charlotte, my parents had neighbors without power for a month. The whole neighborhood had a rotating plan making sure those folks had refrigerator space, washing machine use, etc.
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