How can people be so brutal with refugees, really?

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I'm so sick of the news... I keep listening, despite of the horror, and yet am astonished when I happen to notice how many neo-Nazis are seemingly popping up out of nowhere.

It's like, literally, Germany and the UK changed sides from WWII... the former has taken the most refugees, the UK is on the brink of suggesting concentration camps for them. (No, I seriously wouldn't be surprised if this 'Eton' cabinet suggests it... ugh... and no one can suggest that this isn't a brutal consensus when children are dying in the back of some truck and left to rot...)

take heart Mootoo...

it isn't like a 100 or a 1000 years ago where people could say it isn't happening to me or my loved ones
and I can't see it, or believe it, so it doesn't affect me,

Today, (this is really sad) I heard on the radio that a 3 year old baby boy got washed up on the sand, dead
according to the news report a soldier took him away with grief his only emotion
This picture has gone viral

There is going to come to a point

where humanity makes the decisions , not politicians or corporations

It's easy. You just decide that people who aren't exactly like you are not really human so it does not matter if they suffer and die.

It's a strain on resources is mostly what it is and it adds to the competition for jobs. It's human nature for people (the ones that work for a living) to be alarmed (pissed off) about having tens or hundreds of thousands of refugees offloaded on them all the sudden.

If said refuges are worth the time of day they'll make it despite the hardships. When my ancestors came here from Germany and Ireland it was during the times when people were fleeing both countries in droves making them refugees. They were treated like the scum of the earth in this country but made something of themselves despite the adversities they faced. I don't see how it's much different now.

What syzygyish just said. I think and I'm hoping more people throughout the Western world are recognizing the devastation for what it truly is. I'm hoping. But having said this, what is happening over in Syria is causing so many to literally flee for their lives. This isn't people migrating just to get a free pass and be lazy. These are human beings who are randomly and indiscriminately beings slaughtered in masses. Mostly civilians who had nothing to do with the conflict that is happening over there. It is a huge tragedy and I imagine it will be more-so if old prejudices remain. This is a huge devastation and not one no matter what your personal religious beliefs or lack there of, should be taken lightly.

Oh, we have the resources. We live in a place where energy and water literally fall from the sky.

Raptor, were your ancestors allowed into the country, though?

The main issue I see is cultural. Most of the refugees don't share our values, so they're not going to integrate well. Unfortunately, the countries that *do* share their values aren't willing to take them in. I suggest a charter city for them in the Mediterranean, hosted by Greece (a 50-100 year sovereignty lease of a Greek island should do it) and sponsored by either Britain or Germany (who would run the city and fund it's development). A Hong Kong of the Med, or maybe a Singapore.

I think we could take 60k, though.

Todays problem will be the mold for the billions to come. Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, is almost all the population growth on Earth, and the poorest regions now.

Are you opening the door for three billion over the next twenty years?

Ebola was a problem until it was dealt with at the source. In a short time it was contained.

I myself am oppressed, I demand 1500 Euros a month, plus food and an apartment, in Finland, and a Finn girlfriend.

I have a Human Right to a Finn Girlfriend. Not one of those southern mixed girls, I want a Sammi!

I will show up by getting deported from Russia.

A major sticking point for the Syrian refugees in reaching Germany has been the government of Hungary. The Hungarian President has decided he's going to continue to make transportation west to Germany impossible, in order to satisfy the right wing nationalists of his party who see brown people as less than human.

Golden Dawn (or whatever the Hungarian ones call themselves) is sincerely really f#cked up! I should've figured it was them, they're essentially the American private military contractors' biggest fans.

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Isn't there a huge NATO garrison in Estonia the UN could allocate towards enforcing the Geneva convention here? I'm guessing Russia can't possibly be to pleased about Hungary anyway...

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-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos