That's a very easy reasoning to following, it also gathers a lot of popularity, specially if I'm out of a job o with one I don't like.
Explaining why this is not true, or rather why it is much more complex than that, takes a lot of time, effort and understanding of non trivial economic concepts.
I would say the later is the hard way, this kind of reasoning applies to so many things that said by politicians all around the world to gather votes.
I would also like to clarify that I absolutely don't believe that that kind of reasoning is only used by the right wing politicians, that would be extremely naive.
If foreigners come to country / need jobs / get jobs only were true. Would you say your little sunshine story applies to other areas of swedish immigration as well? No it doesn't, and that's what people are starting to realise. But once you do and call for actions from the governmment, you're being called a racist from people that still live in a dream world and refuse to wake up. Dreams are easy, truth is hard.
If calling things "racist" is a dream, then so is the sunshine story of blaming everything on "the immigrants" and a "crumbling social fabric." Polarization and naivety are easy, subtlety and deeper understanding are hard.
Polarization and naivety are easy, subtlety and deeper understanding are hard
Isn't precisely the problem that we can't have a rational discussion of this issue without people bringing out the X-word, the R-word, the I-word and others and calling for immediate stop of all criticism of the current situation?
I'd say that the problem seems to be that any attempt at rational discussion inevitably leads to talks of "us" vs. "them", culture war, conspiracy theories and propaganda akin to "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (including "Eurabia", lying to kafirs, etc.), the negation of moderate muslims and integrated immigrants, stereotypes and generalizations, misrepresented statistics and basically fear mongering dealing with the supposed invading hordes of savages.
The average Joe not being able to tell "racist" from "xenophobe" seems kind of trivial in comparison.
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It's so damn easy to play the racist card every single time instead of facing reality, isn't it?
No, it's actually the hard way.
This is the easy way:
Foreigners come to country ->
Foreigners need jobs ->
Foreigners get jobs ->
Less jobs for nationals.
That's a very easy reasoning to following, it also gathers a lot of popularity, specially if I'm out of a job o with one I don't like.
Explaining why this is not true, or rather why it is much more complex than that, takes a lot of time, effort and understanding of non trivial economic concepts.
I would say the later is the hard way, this kind of reasoning applies to so many things that said by politicians all around the world to gather votes.
I would also like to clarify that I absolutely don't believe that that kind of reasoning is only used by the right wing politicians, that would be extremely naive.
If foreigners come to country / need jobs / get jobs only were true. Would you say your little sunshine story applies to other areas of swedish immigration as well? No it doesn't, and that's what people are starting to realise. But once you do and call for actions from the governmment, you're being called a racist from people that still live in a dream world and refuse to wake up. Dreams are easy, truth is hard.
If calling things "racist" is a dream, then so is the sunshine story of blaming everything on "the immigrants" and a "crumbling social fabric." Polarization and naivety are easy, subtlety and deeper understanding are hard.
Isn't precisely the problem that we can't have a rational discussion of this issue without people bringing out the X-word, the R-word, the I-word and others and calling for immediate stop of all criticism of the current situation?
I'd say that the problem seems to be that any attempt at rational discussion inevitably leads to talks of "us" vs. "them", culture war, conspiracy theories and propaganda akin to "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (including "Eurabia", lying to kafirs, etc.), the negation of moderate muslims and integrated immigrants, stereotypes and generalizations, misrepresented statistics and basically fear mongering dealing with the supposed invading hordes of savages.
The average Joe not being able to tell "racist" from "xenophobe" seems kind of trivial in comparison.