The rise of right-wing in Europe can be directly attributed to the massive influx of right-wing conservative ideologues from the middle East pouring in.
I'm a huge proponent of immigration, but what we're seeing here is the backlash of immigration done incredibly poorly.
There will be articles for years that tap dance around with us, but if you listen to the people who are voting for right-wing assholes, it's pretty clear why they're doing it and what they're saying. The Press has been bullied into avoiding talking about it though under the guise of islamophobia.
I'd disagree with that. For 50 years Canada did pretty well letting in controlled numbers of people from around the world. Then they opened the flood gates and problems started.
I'm not sure it's about being black and white, i feel like it's more about people feeling the need to integrate which doesn't happen when you arrive with 100,000 of your countrymates.
I completely disagree is a bad take. I think you're overlooking the reality that a right leaning Neo-Nazi has a lot in common with a conservative islamist.
You see it very clearly in Canada with the push to keep sex education out of classrooms being led by the far right PPC party and huge swaths of recently immigrated people from the middle East and Indian subcontinent. They use different methods but they have the same goals ultimately.
Canada used to have a strict policy and on some levels still do outside of the programs being instituted to supplement the workforce and to bring refugees in from complex zones, we've allowed in over double the previous amount for the past couple of years, under various refugee programs. Going a bit farther back there was a large influx of Syrians (and tasty shwarma!). The canada.ca website details the rapid increase in numbers quite well.
I would never say that these people move to Canada are not true Canadians because at one point my family got here on a boat and my wife's family escaped an islamist regime to come here too. We're both quite Canadian in culture and jean jackets.
From what I see, many of these problems derive from cultural conflicts that were previously not apparent because while many people knew to a country tend to stick together when they are a true minority, they tend to work to fit in. When you have large waves of people coming at once, there's no impetus for them to fit in because they can stay within their own cultural confines..... As sad as it is to say, some of those cultural confines are very much at odds with the greater Canadian culture.
You're lazily conflating immigration and refugee data. It's a combination of both the Canada is struggling with. Right now. There's no shortage of analysis or study showing that far too many people are coming to Canada than our system can handle. Even the federal government who is the one who set these policies have started walking them back.
As someone who hails from a middle Eastern culture and is married to an Iranian refugee, I can say with certainty that the influx of people coming from the places that my wife and I escaped are absolutely causing societal problems for us here in Canada. I'm far from a pull. The ladder up behind me. Kind of guy but I'm also a citizen of this country which is being quite clearly impacted by the oversaturation of new people coming from very small pockets of this planet into Canada. This isn't being driven by politicians. Both the conservative and the liberal sides of politics in this country are very much pro-immigration due to our inability to maintain our population rates and tax base without it. The people of Canada on the other hand are starting to show more and more discontent with this approach.
As someone who's here because his family had to flee the situation you describe in your last paragraph to the middle East and then to Canada. I'm not ignorant enough to forget the poem ' first they came for'
That's outside of the reality being faced by Canadians today and they're rightful anger towards the situation.
I'm a Canadian. I just happen to understand what a genocide is and isn't unlike what appears to be a concerning number of westerners who clearly lack critical thinking skills or a baseline education to understand the reality that is before them and see through a Muslim brotherhood propaganda that they are being taught.
Less than 10 years ago, Germany, and especially Berlin, was held up as a beacon of openness and inclusivity in a western world rocked by Brexit and Donald Trump. Angela Merkel’s decision to take in thousands of refugees displaced by the war in Syria boosted her country’s reputation in progressive circles, with many...
Free speech should not include inciting violence or hatred. Germany is well aware of the negative impacts that unchecked incitement leads too. It's interesting to see how they're walking this line in the face of the competing political forces in the country but it's good to see people standing up against hate in general.
Yup. Free speech should be free. Ai monitoring known terrorists is how one remains a free society. Looks like the US needs to invest in the technology and deploy it on campuses ATM.
Nah, those heros are just standing their ground. They're entitled to be on campus, bigoted pro hamasians trying to force them out crying about losing the fight they started is hilarious given it's a mirror of what the Palestinians have been doing since they were invented in the 60s.
Bonus points because they're purportedly Iranian too 🤣.
Unhappy lives linked to recent rise of right-wing populism in Europe ( www.psypost.org ) Englisch
‘Free speech is a facade’: how Gaza war has deepened divisions in German arts world ( www.theguardian.com ) Englisch
Less than 10 years ago, Germany, and especially Berlin, was held up as a beacon of openness and inclusivity in a western world rocked by Brexit and Donald Trump. Angela Merkel’s decision to take in thousands of refugees displaced by the war in Syria boosted her country’s reputation in progressive circles, with many...
I would camp out to be the first to watch ( lemmy.world )