Comment by guywithahat
21 hours ago
The author says "It's deeply rooted in a fear of a future defined by uncontrollable, continuous migration crises fueled by a climate-ravaged, demographically exploding African continent", as if this is a bad thing. Uncontrollable, continuous migration is a very bad thing. How is that not a bad thing? Also why would this problem even belong to Europe?
I don't think the politics of the average person think this many steps ahead, but if they did it would be a legitimate concern, especially given the struggles Europe has experienced trying to assimilate the migrants it currently has.
> The author says "It's deeply rooted in a fear...". Uncontrollable, continuous migration is a very bad thing. How is that not a bad thing?
When pundits in the modern era speak of this sort of fear, the point is not necessarily "the thing that others are afraid of would actually be good". The point is more likely "this won't happen, thus the fear is groundless and the people with the fear are irrational".
(Although I'm sure there are at least some people who consider that there is no good reason to put an upper bound on immigration, or ever turn anyone away; I'm not going to try to explain such a mindset, because it's beyond my own comprehension. In many cases, people may simply not have thought about - or not currently be thinking about - the numbers, and simply operating on a moral principle of uplifting people by admitting them into a geographic region with higher GDP/capita.)
Of course, the argument often depends on highly subjective definitions of "this". And of course, different people have their own reasons to extrapolate observable trends differently, depending on their own level of trust in institutions, which will depend at least a little on their personal history.