Leavers were right about immigration

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[–]Trajan 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

This is a point that needs to be hammered home. Middle-class lefties embrace immigration without any consideration for the people who actually pay the price: the poor. Middle class areas do not become 'multicultural'. They remain largely homogenous, perhaps with a smattering of more wealthy brown people. It's the poor who find themselves competing for jobs and welfare with migrants, having to live next door to this newly imported lower class, yet told they are racists if they speak out against middle-class college students who obviously know best.

[–]jet199[S] 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

You can tell people who think conflicts from immigration and multiculturalism only effect jobs and housing have never been at a car boot sale at 8am on a Sunday morning.

[–]Dragonerne 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

They're told they are clever
They're told we are stupid and ignorant and racist
They don't have any self insight

How do you in an easy way convince people like that?

I remember I was told white americans are racist, and thinking to myself, I probably wouldn't be any different growing up there. Why would I be?
I remember I was told eastern europeans were racist, and thinking to myself, I probably wouldn't b eany different growing up there. Why would I be?
The realization came when I realized their culture had more exposure to nonwhites than mine (scandinavian).

But most people can't look inwards, so how would you convince them?

[–]Trajan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think we can convince them. It may be more the case of needing to end the woke pipeline by purging academia of political activism.