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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.
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.
Marx was against immigration, because it enables the capitalist class to exploit the working class at lower and lower wages.
Not very internationalist of him.
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.
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.
You should put quotes around the relevant saying, otherwise it kinda looks like you’re saying the bad part.