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  • dog-whistle politics

    I'm saying it's not even that. There are plenty of regular Joes who are in no way racist but believe that immigration is detrimental to the country's economy. They may well be wrong but it doesn't mean that it's anything personal.

  • No it's not. But it's made personal by continuous suggestions of immigration causing issues.

    Handing people loaded guns really. At some point someone gets shot and we have already seen it with post brexit xenophobia.

    There is just no middle ground, exploitation of anyone should be frowned upon. Local or not.

  • Yeah, that's the danger - that it gets so bad and people's frustrations boil over. It's like what the NF did in the 70s/80s - recruited from economically deprived areas and found a captive audience.
    But this would be a problem anywhere: it's human nature to look for scapegoats.

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