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It isn't inherently racist to want to regulate immigration.
That's correct. But, on the flipside, at some point a society has to just accept immigrants as part of itself too.
The issue I have with regulation it can results in fuck all rights. See the AUS system. You can be there for decades, but if you have no job you quickly you get kicked out.
We already know EU immigrants pay in the pot, and claim fewer unemployment benefits than natives. And the racist bingo cards of muslims/no english skills also don't fly. But we have been a convenient pissing pole.
If the discussion of regulation isn't had with a celebration/acceptance too then the xenophobia/racism will never be far away. And the regulation crowd rarely goes together with the celebration crowd (bar some businesses who want diversity and celebrate it)
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It isn't inherently racist to want to regulate immigration
But it's a pretty reliable barometer
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It isn't inherently racist to want to regulate immigration. What is racist is to imply that the increasing economic disparity between the lowest earners and the highest, the strain on the NHS, and the shortfall in affordable housing, is somehow a byproduct of immigration.
It's being used to distract people from the specific austerity measures that even George Osbourne now admits were deliberately implemented to appease the financial industry and big business.