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‘Two-tier’: UK treats far-right attacks less harshly than Islamist violence, says thinktank (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Okay, but now you are arguing a completely different point to the one I was making. I am not against immigration, so you don't need to convince me.

When nativists use this argument, it's usually shit-stirrers deliberately trying to pit people against each other.

I would disagree, not everyone is as well read as yourself and there will be some folks that will be already swayed by that argument in to thinking that immigration can suppress wages. If so, then there will logically be some people who have fallen for this, and legitimately believe that immigration has a negative side effect with regards to employment without it being because they have dark skin.

If you shut down the conversation as "that's what racists would say", then you prevent the entire rest of your comment from being communicated and helping them understand that they are wrong.

You spend a lot of time trying to convince me that migration is not a net bad, rather than trying to argue why its beneficial to shut down any ignorant "legitimate concerns" as "sounds like Hitler".