Immigration Question

[Banquo's Ghost]

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TIA.

[rory_20_uk]

Rory, as much as I am leaning on your side about immigration, I can't agree. What the west did was nothing less than exploitation for centuries. To believe you owe them nothing for what your ancestors did is one thing, but to truthfully deny your nation's past is another, which crosses the line in my book.

Not denying the past - it was horrible for everyone, whites, blacks and everything in between. We explioted the lands, just like their rulers did. We left and the same thing is happening. How this makes us as blameworthy for everything is what I fail to see.

What gave the British the right to topple these people? All they did was replace one oppressive regime with a foreign oppressive regime...

Let's think - why did the people revolt in the first place? Could it be because they had *shock and horro* legitimate grievances!? Paternalism is dead. Get over it.

Yes, replaced one with another. Not always better, not always worse. No utopia was overturned.

I'm sure they did have grievances. Good for them - it's a shame that so many have done worse since independence.

Paternalism? What? I don't purport to think that we had either the right or the duty to make their lives better now or then. I couldn't care less about them in the slightest.