(No, just keep on. These kinds of regulations were long overdue)

  • peachybuttcheek@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Unpopular opinion: most migrants come to Europe from safe countries. We should absolutely 100% allow people who flee from war zones to take refuge in Europe. But most migrants who currently cross the border illegally are coming from places like Turkey or Morocco. Is there a war tearing these countries apart that I do not know about? I agree, asylum is a human right, but it’s just that: a right. It’s not an obligation. People abuse that right and then complain they’re not handed stuff on a silver plate.

    If Europe went to war right now, like in the good old days, I’d flee to safety as well. No doubt about that. But I’d be happy to take refuge in the nearest safe country, not try to get into Canada illegally, just because I heard it’s a nice place to live.

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      1 year ago

      That’s not an unpopular opinion, that’s just a sheltered opinion. A few things you need to get out of your head:

      1. That so called ‘safe countries’ are safe for everyone. This doesn’t say anything about those countries, it only says how little you know about them.
      2. People seek asylum trivially and are choosy beggars for going to X country (doesn’t matter where, this kind of sentiment is always the same)
      3. Europe going to war was ‘the good old days’.
      4. That Europe isn’t at war right now
      5. The act of being born in a ‘safe country’ makes you more deserving of it than other human beings