Immigration without assimilation is not immigration, it is invasion.
~ Teddy Roosevelt
I expect this to generate some intelligent remarks, at least a few. Probably like five that don’t tell me to fuck myself and die in a hole or something. No one can have intelligent adult conversations anymore without pulling one of these cards when they realize they’re losing or can’t articulate their side of the argument any further:
Homophobic
Racist
Sexist
Xenophobic
Islamophobic
Transphobic
Nazi (guess no one knows how to write Neonazi anymore)
Bigot
And the list goes on from there. So I’m sort of daring you guys to have some nice, non-cursing, non-ranty, non-childish, non-slur-slinging, mature adult conversation with me. If we can’t agree, we can stop talking. You can go tell your friends about the uneducated freak on Tumblr who needs to burn in Dante’s Inferno and I’ll talk to the next person in the queue. I just want to talk; I don’t want to be insulted and I don’t want to insult anyone. Think of it this way: this is an exercise in respect and tolerance. If you can’t be tolerant and respectful, just walk away, that way no one gets angry and no one gets frustrated.
Because, honestly, I’d like to know from people -- especially the ones who champion this fabled notion of some sort of glorious, border-free utopia -- what you expect the result to be with these immigrants? Are you just going to allow them to come into these various countries, overrun the population, and eventually take over? I know you guys have this massive white-guilt complex and this “hate all whites” and “hate your country” ideology going on, despite a lot of you being white yourselves, but in spite of that I really want to know what you all are going to do when these people turn around and kill you in your ideal society. Because your ideal just isn’t factual or sensical.
It won’t work.
Literally every YA dystopian book series (Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Divergent, Harry Potter-- yes, even that one) prove that these “perfect utopias” we envision and dream of are actually dystopias and we will all be miserable in them. Especially communistic-based ones like Panem, where the belief that everyone can “get along as long as they stick to their place” suck and fail astronomically. People fight, they have differences of opinions, factions are created, people make borders.
I mean, that’s essentially Basic Human Existence 101. Find a space you can protect for you and your family group, then set a parameter around it so you can defend it. Dogs do this. Animals, for animals, it’s first instinct. Yet you guys seem to think that we can just drop borders -- a subconscious, animalistic, basic instinct -- and everything will be good and rosy and these flocking immigrants will just embrace the law-abiding citizens of the country happily?
Help me to understand from your perspective so I can feel some sympathy for you, because right now I’m just really confused. Not even dogs are so naif as to let other strange dogs into their territory without seriously sniffing (vetting, if you will; sometimes even fighting) them beforehand. Not even domesticated dogs can be bred enough not to have a parameter, no matter how long we breed docility into them.
I know that what I’m about to say will be very difficult for a lot of people to accept, but guys, immigrants, illegal immigrants, have no right to be anywhere outside of the country in which they were born. And countries that want to turn them away? They have every right to do so.
There’s literally nothing wrong with that, please understand; because inviting illegals in isn’t good nor is it helpful. Because, let me tell you this: the majority? They don’t like you, they don’t appreciate you, they don’t care how much you fought their corner, they just want stuff. (Specifically, the stuff they think you have which they envy.) They in fact, more often than not, hate you because you have stuff that they want and can’t get as fast as they want it.
I do not care how many of these immigrants are children, it’s irrelevant (children are being used to manipulate sympathies; it’s been done since forever. Think of the kids in the third Hunger Games book that get killed. It’s all emotional manipulation).
They [immigrants] must assimilate, learn the language, become citizens, or else I have no reason to care about them. The lack of respect for my country, the country they want to live in, proves that they haven’t yet earned the right to be here. The country they came from is crap (proven by stats and facts; I know you hate that to be said about a 3rd world country “it’s a hell hole” but it’s true; either work to make it untrue or move on) because they allowed it to be that way, so now they’re coming here to get away from their mess and the mess of their forefathers who were stupid-- usually the ones that thought democratic socialism was cool and Would Work (news flash it sucks ass and if you ever think it’s gonna work you need to go take a good long research dive into the USSR; aka Russia. Because communism fails every time and capitalism always works). They cannot come to our country or any other country where they think life will be better and try and make that country like their old country.
Stop feeling sorry for these guys and realize that they are using your extra-emotional feelings for their gain and you guys are buying their con.