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Why is it wrong to oppose mass immigration?

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    Immigration from Africa would result in the opposite of life support with food bags. They would be able to get relatively well paid jobs and be able to fund their own food.

    You see im arguing that Africans or even other nationalities who face famine etc from overfarming and deforestation of their lands..Shouldnt be artificially propped up and kept alive,if some are meant to die,some are meant to die,let nature take its course.

    Humanitarianism is out of control,we are propping up human beings that are maybe not supposed to have meant to have lived in the first place.

    Why do we insist on propping them up.We refer to certain species of animals as a pest when the truth is human beings are the biggest pest,we far outnumber any species of animal,and are stretching our natural enviornmental resouces to its limit.

    As david attenbourough said its barmy to keep feeding them with bags of flour,and went on to say humans are the scourge of this earth.And i have to agree with him on that.

    Touching on the issue of overpopulation,because we insist on feeding them africans are set to double their population by 2050 by 2.4 billion people.

    That is a large chunk of the earths population.How do you propose we feed these extra people and provide them sanitation and cars in sustainable manner.

    And please everyone before jumping all over what i say..Try not to call me a racist. Its just pathetic. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭Suryavarman


    You see im arguing that Africans or even other nationalities who face famine etc from overfarming and deforestation of their lands..Shouldnt be artificially propped up and kept alive,if some are meant to die,some are meant to die,let nature take its course.

    Humanitarianism is out of control,we are propping up human beings that are maybe not supposed to have meant to have lived in the first place.

    Why do we insist on propping them up.We refer to certain species of animals as a pest when the truth is human beings are the biggest pest,we far outnumber any species of animal,and are stretching our natural enviornmental resouces to its limit.

    As david attenbourough said its barmy to keep feeding them with bags of flour,and went on to say humans are the scourge of this earth.And i have to agree with him on that.

    Touching on the issue of overpopulation,because we insist on feeding them africans are set to double their population by 2050 by 2.4 billion people.

    That is a large chunk of the earths population.How do you propose we feed these extra people and provide them sanitation and cars in sustainable manner.

    And please everyone before jumping all over what i say..Try not to call me a racist. Its just pathetic. :)

    None of that has anything to do with immigration.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,423 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    You see im arguing that Africans or even other nationalities who face famine etc from overfarming and deforestation of their lands..Shouldnt be artificially propped up and kept alive,if some are meant to die,some are meant to die,let nature take its course.

    Humanitarianism is out of control,we are propping up human beings that are maybe not supposed to have meant to have lived in the first place.

    Why do we insist on propping them up.We refer to certain species of animals as a pest when the truth is human beings are the biggest pest,we far outnumber any species of animal,and are stretching our natural enviornmental resouces to its limit.
    Social Darwanist approaches have been out of favour for quite some time now.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    Mass immigration nothing to do with overpopulation which has nothing to do with the destruction of the enviornment.

    You see all you humanitarian yes people yes to immigration yes to multiculturalism just do not get the knock on effects whatsoever.

    Lets feed the africans to hell with it lets feed them all,and live a gay old happy time.

    What could possibly go wrong..Right?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    Social Darwanist approaches have been out of favour for quite some time now.

    What line of thought is in fashion doesnt bother me at all :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,423 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    What line of thought is in fashion doesnt bother me at all :)
    Well thankfully most people do not think that allowing other human beings to starve to death because that's what 'nature intended' is a good thing, hence we have things like humanitarian aid. What does any of this have to do with immigration anyway?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    Surely you can make the connection.

    Lets say if a certain species of animal was breeding out of control you would find ways to limit that maybe in a non violent way by not helping them out etc.And im not even talking about the culling that happens to certain species of animal without any question or squeal of dissaproval from a humanitarianist.

    If you were to apply this to humans there would be uproar.I see double standards,there is a huge enviornmental issue with overpopulation and we are not tackling it.

    Our only true wealth is our enviornment,minerals,forests full of wildlife and so on,trees,water,crop,fertile soil that hasnt been over used and abused.
    We are overfarming and cutting down forest to the nth degree,co2 chugging up into the atmosphere and calving of icecaps is happening at an alarming rate.
    What has immigration and overpopulation got to do with this - make the connection.

    Let half of the eu (and possibly beyond/asylum shopper/hoppers)flood into the UK and ireland,what on earth could possibly go wrong.
    For a start public services would be stretched,and we wouldnt be able to cope very well.Just imagine a whole maternity ward clogged up like in the uk,some women in labour in the uk were turned away in a serious condition bc nurses were simply ''too busy''..
    Thats just one scenario we might have on our hands,and if someone dies as a result of this,you can be guaranteed there will be a costly court case that the state will have to foot,and it will come out of yours or my pocket,ie joe public.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,423 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    Let half of the eu (and possibly beyond/asylum shopper/hoppers)flood into the UK and ireland,what on earth could possibly go wrong.
    For a start public services would be stretched,and we wouldnt be able to cope very well.Just imagine a whole maternity ward clogged up like in the uk,some women in labour in the uk were turned away in a serious condition bc nurses were simply ''too busy''..
    Thats just one scenario we might have on our hands,and if someone dies as a result of this,you can be guaranteed there will be a costly court case that the state will have to foot,and it will come out of yours or my pocket,ie joe public.
    Ok, so the 'connection' is some ridiculously implausible hypothetical scenario you have concocted which involves 250 million+ people immigrating to the UK and Ireland.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    Lets make the connection between overpopulation and immigration.

    Lets see you prop up africans that would have never survived off their own merit,and then they emigrate over to the EU countries and survive very well and contribute to the increase in our own populations.

    Thier population is set to increase by 2.4 billion in africa as a direct result of our outside interference.

    Is that any clearer for you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,423 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    Lets make the connection between overpopulation and immigration.

    Lets see you prop up africans that would have never survived off their own merit,and then they emigrate over to the EU countries and survive very well and contribute to the increase in our own populations.

    Thier population is set to increase by 2.4 billion in africa as a direct result of our outside interference.

    Is that any clearer for you.
    Yeah you've already made it clear that you think people should be allowed to die if they're not deemed 'fit' enough to survive on their own. Why do you assume that all of those "Africans" who have been kept alive 'artificially' have emigrated, or will emigrate, to EU countries? Do you have some proof, or is this another thought experiment on your part?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    I have met a lot of people from nigeria and somalia where i live in ennis there is a fairly big nigerian and somalian population,they didnt grow up in the UK or anywhere like that,these guys are straight from nigeria/somalia.

    Of course you can make the connection..A lot of somalians wouldnt have survived off their own merit,so yes i can make the connection,these people have been put on life support.And have in turn emigrated to many different countries in and outside the EU.

    Now i have no problem with them in terms of race, but in terms of overpopulation i dont think any human should be propped up because of teary eyed humanitarian or make a quick buck charities or race-relations advocators.

    We already have ENOUGH human beings on the planet as it is..

    Encouraging mass immmigration of those with a high fertility rate is stupid and reckless of course governments only see the euro signs and want more heads to tax.

    But do not and refuse to see the long term consequences by way of healthcare/welfare and crime,naturally all these things will increase when a population increases no matter where they are from.

    Our enviornment cannot sustain what will be over 10 billion on the planet,how do we propose to feed all those mouths,its just not plausible,some are going to go hungry.


  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,822 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Now i have no problem with them in terms of race, but in terms of overpopulation i dont think any human should be propped up because of teary eyed humanitarian...
    So if an Irish person gets sick, you'd advocate allowing them to die instead of making medical treatment available to them?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭BurnsCarpenter


    Lets make the connection between overpopulation and immigration.

    Lets see you prop up africans that would have never survived off their own merit,and then they emigrate over to the EU countries and survive very well and contribute to the increase in our own populations.

    Thier population is set to increase by 2.4 billion in africa as a direct result of our outside interference.

    Is that any clearer for you.

    Well as it stands there is more than enough food to go round for everyone. Maybe we could hold off on the 'let them starve' approach until absolutely necessary? Who knows what might happen in the meantime to thin our numbers a bit - superbugs, supervolcanoes, meteors...

    Or maybe we could focus more on bringing third world countries in line with the western world, economically. Birth rate goes down as wealth goes up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,423 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    Of course you can make the connection..A lot of somalians wouldnt have survived off their own merit,so yes i can make the connection,these people have been put on life support.And have in turn emigrated to many different countries in and outside the EU.
    Of course that has nothing to do with factors like decades of civil war and an almost total collapse of Somalia as a functioning state. Why bother with nuances when you can appeal to crude evolutionary theories in order to justify why certain people 'deserve' to live or die.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Encouraging mass immmigration of those with a high fertility rate is stupid and reckless of course governments only see the euro signs and want more heads to tax..

    We do not have mass immigration from Africa. I've pointed this out to you before.

    The size of second and third generation immigrant familys generally drop.

    The European population is dropping.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/european-birth-rate-declines/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,964 ✭✭✭For Reals


    It's not wrong to oppose it as long as you know why and why isn't based on complete bollocks.
    Its a cliché....a first world country finds itself on its arse due to mismanagement, the powers that be love the in-fighting amongst those who generally had little to do with it and usually have suffered the most:

    1) People on welfare, (they don't work?) 2) organised workers/Unions, (they get how much?) 2) Dem blacks, (war torn me hole!).


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    We do not have mass immigration from Africa. I've pointed this out to you before.

    The size of second and third generation immigrant familys generally drop.

    The European population is dropping.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/european...rate-declines/
    While the european population may be decreasing ie smaller birth rates,and older pregnancies..
    The immigration population is on the increase,and immigration is increasing into the uk by way of bulgarians and romanians,its not decreaasing,so no matter how you try to discount it or argue it down its just not working.

    It maybe hard to become an immigrant in ireland,but that doesnt deter asylum seekers who hop from country to country by way of entering the eu and deliberately turn up in ireland and the uk.

    The uk currently has 63 million people in it,and thats not counting the illegals and those who generally wont fill out the forms for fear of being caught.


  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,822 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    You might answer my question.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    About healthcare for people in ireland,i have no problem with that,i dont see it as artificially propping them up.

    As long as they can sustainably feed themselves and survive off their own merit in general i dont see the problem.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,423 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    About healthcare for people in ireland,i have no problem with that,i dont see it as artificially propping them up.

    As long as they can sustainably feed themselves and survive off their own merit in general i dont see the problem.
    You keep saying this but it's not entirely clear that you actually realise that there are often structural factors which inhibit peoples' ability to obtain food, shelter or whatever - the example of Somalia earlier is one instance where you seem oblivious to the fact that not every starving person is in that state because that's how nature wants it or because they are incapable of survival on their own.

    Would you agree with letting homeless Irish (or British as you seem to mention the UK a lot) people starve to death?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    Dont get me wrong i have given to bothar(you know sending animals over by way of plane/boat,more co2 lol,to these african places),and i have give to animal shelters and also the capuchin brothers.

    Yes it is propping people up,and im personally debating with myself will i give to any charity next year bar the animals,not just in light of the CRC charity top up scandal,and i have worked in charities,and some of the execs driving around in their mercs turning up at any hour they please and using the charity bank account as their own personal account,has really got me thinking - is it really all worth it???

    Here we are propping up people ,that do not have the sense to survive off their own merit,should we be propping up yet more human beings,when there are too many of them in the first place.

    Can you not agree that human beings have overproportionately infested this planet more than any species of animal on this earth.

    And we are propping up more of them???

    If this was a conversation about animals a lot of people would agree.

    This is the double standard here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    While the european population may be decreasing ie smaller birth rates,and older pregnancies..
    The immigration population is on the increase,and immigration is increasing into the uk by way of bulgarians and romanians,its not decreaasing,so no matter how you try to discount it or argue it down its just not working.
    .
    The dread wave of Bulgarians and Romanians hasn't occurred yet. They are Europeans, btw.
    It maybe hard to become an immigrant in ireland,but that doesnt deter asylum seekers who hop from country to country by way of entering the eu and deliberately turn up in ireland and the uk..

    It would be best if your read this, before going down that path.....
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=59465073&postcount=1
    Can you not agree that human beings have overproportionately infested this planet more than any species of animal on this earth.

    And we are propping up more of them???..

    Contraception. You may have heard of it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    The dread wave of Bulgarians and Romanians hasn't occurred yet. They are Europeans, btw.

    Where did i say they werent europeans,i know they are europeans duh!


  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,822 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    About healthcare for people in ireland,i have no problem with that,i dont see it as artificially propping them up.
    You don't see medical care as artificially propping people up, but you do see feeding people as artificially propping them up?

    If we're at the point where you're inventing definitions in a futile attempt to avoid making your arguments look ridiculous, well...
    As long as they can sustainably feed themselves and survive off their own merit in general i dont see the problem.
    So it's OK to give granny medical treatment as long as she performs her own heart surgery? After all, we wouldn't want her surviving off someone else's "merit" (whatever that means).


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    It would be best if your read this, before going down that path.....

    Why is it the come all the way to ireland,whether they arrive in the so called first safe country or not,why is it they travel so long to come to ireland.Surely its not for our shamrocks and guiness is it ? :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    So it's OK to give granny medical treatment as long as she performs her own heart surgery? After all, we wouldn't want her surviving off someone else's "merit" (whatever that means).

    If people show a capability to survive they should have healthcare those who cannot make strides to survive should be cut loose,thats my argument.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,423 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    If people show a capability to survive they should have healthcare those who cannot make strides to survive should be cut loose,thats my argument.
    Even if that healthcare is what gives them the ability to survive? Can you really not see the problem with what you are saying?


  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,822 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    If people show a capability to survive they should have healthcare those who cannot make strides to survive should be cut loose,thats my argument.
    Your argument is nothing other than barely disguised racism. You can deny it all you want - worse still, you can start wailing about being oppressed by being called on your racism - but that doesn't make your argument any less intrinsically racist.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Why is it the come all the way to ireland,whether they arrive in the so called first safe country or not,why is it they travel so long to come to ireland.Surely its not for our shamrocks and guiness is it ? :)


    Why not? They're free to apply at whatever country they choose. As signatories of the Geneva convention we're obligated to give them a hearing.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    Your argument is nothing other than barely disguised racism. You can deny it all you want - worse still, you can start wailing about being oppressed by being called on your racism - but that doesn't make your argument any less intrinsically racist.

    No,none of what i pointed out was racist,where did i mention the colour of skin or race,i said i had no problems with africans and have met quite a few in the town im from.

    The insinuations of racist were clearly all over this thread,and as kevin myers has previously said it is impossible to have a rational logical debate/discussion without being hysterically branded a racist.

    So you have proven my point.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭RGDATA!


    Why is it the come all the way to ireland,whether they arrive in the so called first safe country or not,why is it they travel so long to come to ireland.Surely its not for our shamrocks and guiness is it ? :)

    Maybe it's our literary tradition, the likes of Sean O'Casey, Ann Enright etc.? Am I warm?


  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,822 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    No,none of what i pointed out was racist,where did i mention the colour of skin or race,i said i had no problems with africans and have met quite a few in the town im from.
    Fine. Let's call it xenophobia instead - apparently it's OK to consider foreigners less worthy of the fundamental human right to life, as long as you don't actually spell out the distinction by skin colour.
    The insinuations of racist were clearly all over this thread,and as kevin myers has previously said it is impossible to have a rational logical debate/discussion without being hysterically branded a racist.

    So you have proven my point.
    Have I bollox. You don't get to claim that your arguments are not xenophobic by claiming that you're being oppressed by being called out on your xenophobia, even if you've attempted to inoculate the discussion in advance by predicting that you'll be called on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,423 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    No,none of what i pointed out was racist,where did i mention the colour of skin or race,i said i had no problems with africans and have met quite a few in the town im from.
    You're the one who has lumped "Africans" into a category of a group of people who do not appear to 'merit' interventions. You did the same thing on a thread on Afterhours too, you were a bit more explicit about it there though.
    The insinuations of racist were clearly all over this thread,and as kevin myers has previously said it is impossible to have a rational logical debate/discussion without being hysterically branded a racist.

    So you have proven my point.
    I think I'll take lectures on rational, logical debates from someone else thanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,416 ✭✭✭Count Dooku


    Nodin wrote: »
    The dread wave of Bulgarians and Romanians hasn't occurred yet. They are Europeans, btw.
    Really?
    CRIMINAL gangs are flying into Dublin for weekend iPhone theft sprees which can net thousands of euro
    One professional pick pocket was nabbed with nine stolen phones from one nightclub alone.

    Gardai have now launched a major operation against the marauding foreign gangs, mainly consisting of young smartly dressed men and women from Romania and Bulgaria.
    http://www.herald.ie/news/gangs-flying-in-to-steal-iphones-29130404.html

    Organised Romanian street gangs who were responsible for a major epidemic of pick-pocketing crime in Dublin city centre last month have either fled the country to target tourists in London or are locked up.
    Pickpocketing offences rose by a staggering 200pc in the south city in May and June, but a garda clampdown led to more than 40 arrests and sources say that the problem "has largely abated".
    http://www.herald.ie/news/romanian-pickpocket-gangs-driven-out-of-city-28013354.html


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,087 ✭✭✭Pro Hoc Vice


    While the european population may be decreasing ie smaller birth rates,and older pregnancies..
    The immigration population is on the increase,and immigration is increasing into the uk by way of bulgarians and romanians,its not decreaasing,so no matter how you try to discount it or argue it down its just not working.

    It maybe hard to become an immigrant in ireland,but that doesnt deter asylum seekers who hop from country to country by way of entering the eu and deliberately turn up in ireland and the uk.

    The uk currently has 63 million people in it,and thats not counting the illegals and those who generally wont fill out the forms for fear of being caught.


    Can you do me a favour take a position on a topic, stick to it, argue it, not hop around trying to connect issues that have no relation to each other.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,087 ✭✭✭Pro Hoc Vice


    Why is it the come all the way to ireland,whether they arrive in the so called first safe country or not,why is it they travel so long to come to ireland.Surely its not for our shamrocks and guiness is it ? :)


    Do you even know the figure for Asylum, here is a hint I have quoted them. Often people do not claim in first country for varied reasons some good some bad. A good reason is the person has family who is in Ireland, a bad reason is they perceive Ireland to be an easy country to get Asylum


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,416 ✭✭✭Count Dooku


    Even if that healthcare is what gives them the ability to survive? Can you really not see the problem with what you are saying?
    Humanitarian aid is making situation only worse, forcing people of Africa rely on aid only
    Ethiopia,%20population%20and%20food%20imports.PNG
    But of coarse it is great business with a lot of respect and massive salaries for CEO and other staff


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,423 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    Humanitarian aid is making situation only worse, forcing people of Africa rely on aid only
    I wasn't talking about Africa specifically in that post.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,087 ✭✭✭Pro Hoc Vice


    Dont get me wrong i have given to bothar(you know sending animals over by way of plane/boat,more co2 lol,to these african places),and i have give to animal shelters and also the capuchin brothers.

    Yes it is propping people up,and im personally debating with myself will i give to any charity next year bar the animals,not just in light of the CRC charity top up scandal,and i have worked in charities,and some of the execs driving around in their mercs turning up at any hour they please and using the charity bank account as their own personal account,has really got me thinking - is it really all worth it???

    Here we are propping up people ,that do not have the sense to survive off their own merit,should we be propping up yet more human beings,when there are too many of them in the first place.

    Can you not agree that human beings have overproportionately infested this planet more than any species of animal on this earth.

    And we are propping up more of them???

    If this was a conversation about animals a lot of people would agree.

    This is the double standard here.


    If you want to debate dependency culture please do so, this is about immigration. A person can not claim asylum because they are starving, or because they are poor. In fact most if not all Asylum seekers are from the middle classes. Please can you pick a topic and find the right forum and argue it. You are hopping around like a rabbit in heat.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Really?

    Please don't take remarks out of context.

    Are you implying that ordinary Bulgarians and Romanians are automatically criminally inclined?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    I agree the English media have taken a very xenophobic lean but I have some concerns-

    I watched an rte documentary this year about homeless on our streets. The majority are Eastern European, some are too ashamed to go home to their families after they lost everything here, some have fallen into drug alcohol abuse, others are trying to get back into work. What will happen if more come?

    Romania was a hub of people trafficking about seven years ago, has that changed?

    Can we give these people the lives they deserve or will they just be another face on the street holding a cup out?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    No,none of what i pointed out was racist,where did i mention the colour of skin or race,i said i had no problems with africans and have met quite a few in the town im from.

    .
    (My bold)

    I'm afraid that's a nonsense.

    With regard to black people -
    They are over represented all over the world not just on the political scene
    they are everywhere,they are set to double their population by 2.4 billion,and
    you dont see this as a huge problem,not just socially but enviornmentally?
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87671053&postcount=115
    (my bold and underline)

    Given in answer to why immigrants (implicitly black immigrants) should not be represented here politically -
    They are politically represented all over the world,look at africa,look
    at america right up to canada and down to south america,there are african
    ghettos and neighbourhoods everywhere in the eu too..

    Why do they need
    to be here to get political representation here too..
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87670092&postcount=96


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    cloudatlas wrote: »
    I agree the English media have taken a very xenophobic lean but I have some concerns-

    I watched an rte documentary this year about homeless on our streets. The majority are Eastern European, some are too ashamed to go home to their families after they lost everything here, some have fallen into drug alcohol abuse, others are trying to get back into work. What will happen if more come?

    Romania was a hub of people trafficking about seven years ago, has that changed?

    Can we give these people the lives they deserve or will they just be another face on the street holding a cup out?


    Why would they? Theres not that much to draw anyone at the moment.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    (My bold)

    I'm afraid that's a nonsense.

    With regard to black people -

    No its not a nonsense,what you are doing is a nonsense trying to implicate me as a racist,i said i have no problem with black people and i stand by that,but there are far too many of them being propped up.They wouldnt have survived off thier own merit,africas population is set to double by 2.4 billion yes billion and you dont somehow see that as a problem with regard to overpopulation and putting a strain on enviornmental resources and public services?And you know what if all these africans where white i would still say the same thing..
    If you want to debate dependency culture please do so, this is about immigration.

    The dependency culture also rears its ugly head by way of immigration they come over here to eventually put a strain on our better managed although not perfect resources.

    Immigration and the dependency culture go hand in hand im afraid.If you cannot make the connection you are blinded by your own pro immigration bias.
    Can you do me a favour take a position on a topic, stick to it, argue it, not hop around trying to connect issues that have no relation to each other.
    A lot of poor third world countries including india are going to go through whats a population explosion and you are saying there is no connection when they fall over themselves coming off planes and boats over here to ireland and the uk???


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Nodin wrote: »
    Why would they? Theres not that much to draw anyone at the moment.

    Um desperation,hearsay, they hear it's better than their own country. Actually funnily enough I'm sitting next to a Romanian lady in an internet cafe now she is looking for nanny work so she can start in January, I hope she gets the job.

    What about the U.K. I think it's obvious why so many people of different nationalities are there, it's easy for them to set up networks, build communities form contacts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    The insinuations of racist were clearly all over this thread,and as kevin myers has previously said it is impossible to have a rational logical debate/discussion without being hysterically branded a racist.

    Clearly you're more deserving of being called a spider hysteric, given that a spider in a box of bananas in Cork is somehow down to lax immigration policy?! Creatures of various shades and sizes have been piggybacking fruit shipments since fruit shipping began - and long before Ireland got a sniff of multi-culturalism.

    Simply claiming that discussion is being stifled by repeated accusations of racism, doesn't actually make it so. As mentioned, you've subsequently delved off into solid racist rhetoric yourself in this thread, but it's mixed in with such a range of bizarre opinions, and fictions, that it's hard to know if it's bigotry or just simple ignorance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    cloudatlas wrote: »
    Um desperation,hearsay, they hear it's better than their own country. Actually funnily enough I'm sitting next to a Romanian lady in an internet cafe now she is looking for nanny work so she can start in January, I hope she gets the job.

    What about the U.K. I think it's obvious why so many people of different nationalities are there, it's easy for them to set up networks, build communities form contacts.

    Britain is certainly more attractive than here but whether or not that attracts vast numbers I couldn't say. I presume they have a similar 'can't arrive and claim' set up as here, so I can't see that much of a problem, tbh.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 602 ✭✭✭hotbabe1992


    you've subsequently delved off into solid racist rhetoric yourself in this thread

    Wheres the racist rhetoric?

    The issue of mass immigration?

    The lack of controls over movement of goods and people? (Ie the poisionous spider story which i can back up).

    The issue of overpopulation?

    The impact this has on the enviornment,and the overstretching of public health services and other public services?

    The issue of humanitarianism?

    Where did i point out their colour of skin exactly?

    You are aggressively looking for things that arent nessecarily there..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    (.............................)

    The dependency culture also rears its ugly head by way of immigration they come over here to eventually put a strain on our better managed although not perfect resources.

    Immigration and the dependency culture go hand in hand im afraid.If you cannot make the connection you are blinded by your own pro immigration bias.

    Nope, no xenophobia there.....


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Nodin wrote: »
    Britain is certainly more attractive than here but whether or not that attracts vast numbers I couldn't say. I presume they have a similar 'can't arrive and claim' set up as here, so I can't see that much of a problem, tbh.

    It is when they end up on the streets and they are treated like human waste, when a cap could be put on immigration until the situation recovers. Don't get me wrong I think the O.P. is absurd 20% is not high but it's the people who fall through the cracks and the human trafficking that worries me.


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