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I was just searching though subs to see their opinions in immigration... holy shit, this is major sub that often has posts going to the front page. This is yet another reminder why reddit sucks.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Anti immigration politics cannot be understood without racism.

Ideals like immigration is going to change the national character is just another way to say some people are better than others.

Opposition to immigration is incoherent unless racism is true.

[–] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say that's a blanket true statement.

There is plenty of opposition to immigration that is racist, but there are also legitimate issues of immigration growing a population faster than infrastructure and housing supply can keep up, or wealthy immigrants displacing more working class neighborhoods to take advantage of power cost of living.

I don't think blanket enabling of all immigration everywhere is a policy that would be a clear positive for the world.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We live in a system where the planet is divided into geographic regions of violent control in order to maintain the extreme privilege of a very few people. It seems pretty clear humanity and the planet would be much better off without this system that enslaves and destroys them for the profits of a very few.

I agree that in this context the immediate cessation of borders would lead to war, chaos, death, etc. But that's primary because it's an evil, garbage system to begin with. It's going to take much more than fear-mongering about open borders to improve anything.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

You should put quotes around the relevant saying, otherwise it kinda looks like you're saying the bad part.

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Marx was against immigration, because it enables the capitalist class to exploit the working class at lower and lower wages.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Not very internationalist of him.

[–] neeeerrrdd@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Reddit is such a fucking shit hole. Major subs have gotten really transphobic as well as of late. If only lemmy could be more popular so I didn't have to keep going to reddit for shit.

[–] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If Lemmy was as popular as Reddit it would get flooded with bots and turn to shit in no time

[–] neeeerrrdd@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's true too I guess. Everything on the internet gets ruined.

[–] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sadly I think in the next 5 years, as LLMs get cheaper and more accessible, there will be nowhere left like this. Nowhere that you can have an anonymous old school conversation using a text interface with the expectation that you are talking to real people.

Maybe there will be some magic anti-AI tech, but I can't think of a way you could implement that without trashing anonymity.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It's called an EMP device.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think small private groups of vetted members are likely to become even more popular if that's the case. It would be a shame for search and discoverability, but if an open connection to the web leads inexorably to bots you really can't tell from people...

Kind of overstating it but it would be like an internet dark age in a way. Most conversations encrypted, unarchived, known only to a few. Like you were saying, conversations like this, on the open web, just wouldn't happen anymore if the internet is just for business, shopping, etc

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

Bring back webrings!

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Make an alliance of instances to vow to ban these bad-faith actors.

Those instance who refuse get warned, then defederated.

We'll have a small circle of safe spaces for people who want equality, then for those brave, you can venture out to the hostile defed-iverse by making an account out there.

That's what fediverse is, not every instance will connect with each other.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah that's how I see it too. If the fediverse becomes mainstream/commercial then I'm happy more people are off the big closed platforms, but I don't want any part of the pro-capital ad culture if they start reproducing that here.

[–] machenni@procial.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

@neeeerrrdd@lemmy.world @DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works Lemmy may never be as popular as Reddit, except if it has a rapture of sorts.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, its Lemmy removing those posts and comments so you guys dont see them. And people stop posting here.

I mean sure, I guess that is "better" if you like to believe something that is not true.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago

Europeans bemoaning brain-drain that's working in their favor...

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

From the point of workers in the destination countries, any influx of foreign workers replacing local ones and put pressure on salaries to be seen as bad is 100% understandable.

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago

Looks like the comments on FoxNews

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago

There’s a lot of exodus from India and China, globally. Change is scary. An increase in visible minorities is change. Wealth inequality is climbing exponentially. Should they blame the Chinese? No, but it makes sense to them, because humans can’t really make sense of the difference between a multi-millionaire and a half-trillionaire (they’re both unfathomably large numbers) but they can tell the difference between having a Dunkin’ donuts and a Chinese grocer on the corner, and they can’t afford a house but they could back when it was a Dunkin 10 years ago. It’s not right, but in order to change minds it’s important to understand where they’re coming from.

Personally, I need to remind myself of this as well. The culture in the area is changing rapidly with a significant local influx of immigrants and they seem like good people who and contribute to the community and the economy, but I liked it before. When could afford a house. Change is scary.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Keep in mind that the post has 6k+ up votes so it's always guaranteed to get some low effort bot and psyop posters as well as the odd abominable person. It's just agitation. Look at the highly voted comments for how people actually feel.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

That sub wasn’t like this a year ago. This is a stark tell that the sub has either been captured by bad-faith agenda mods, or is being heavily botted. Or both.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I have never heard anybody complain about Chinese immigration here (Denmark). AFAIK the Chinese are considered among the well adapting groups despite cultural differences.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Is that the europe sub that's openly nazis or the europe sub that's only semi-openly nazis?

It's hard to keep track on reddit.

Anyway, yes sinophobia.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 points 23 hours ago

Why does country not wanting even more people, when they are already are having problems, makes them nazis? Why is it that Europeans, according to others, should prioritize non-Europeans over themselves? Make it make sense to me. Why am I obligated to take you into my "home", otherwhise I'm a nazi? We barely have shit for ourselves, we are not your caretakers.