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I get it. But this just shows again clearly why people like Trump have any chance at all.

I don't share many of his opinions, but nothing in there screams extremist right, sexist or xenophobic.



Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but that bit about "native Brits" and then linking to how London has fewer white people than ever before doesn't get your senses tingling? Saying Tommy Robinson's just some jolly ole bloke gone for a walk doesn't give you a whiff of something being off?

Everyone is invited to click on the link upthread and form their own opinion!


It's quite fash.


The entire post is an anti-immigration screed. How is it not xenophobic?

It's also littered with references to other far-right positions, like defending someone who was tweeting out incitements to violence against trans people - "If a trans-woman is in a female-only space, punch them in the balls"


I agree that his position is right wing, but is it far right? Most nations explicitly exist for the people native to the place. Very few nations allow foreign immigration on the scale that the US, UK, Canada, do. And European countries make it pretty difficult to migrate normally- unless you’re a Muslim “refugee”. Being anti-immigrant is a default position in the world.

I think the average person on the left likes to believe they have the position that “all immigration is good”. In reality, they mean all migration by nonwhite people is good (see how they talk about white or near-white people in the US, Canada, Israel). It’s this hypocrisy and obviously racist stance that bugs me.

What makes Muslim migration to Europe “good” but Jewish migration to the stateless land of Israel from 1890-1948 bad? What makes Muslims moving to the US “good” but makes all white people in the US colonizers? Either everybody gets the colonizer notation (foolish imo) or migration is a human right (like it was for the million years before the modern nation-state) and everybody needs to fucking deal with it, stop killing each other and stop condemning people for moving or for the past crimes of people who may be barely related. And if you’re going to migrate: don’t be an asshole to the people there first.




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