ISSUE #53: White refugees are MORE equal than others.
The blatant racism is currently being displayed on the world screen.
Yesterday, the Biden administration announced a plan to take in 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, which will begin on Monday.
Without any doubt, this is a good move. I have nothing against the Ukrainians fleeing their country, leaving their homes behind as anyone fleeing violence deserves any sort of help.
“We are taking in 100,000 Ukrainian refugees,” says the country that deported Haitian refugees back to Haiti in 2021 and has a pile of 40,000 pending visa applications from Afghanistan.
I just want to highlight the Western hypocrisy here, which has been on full display since the invasion began in Feb.
You will see a stark contrast when you compare it with how the Western countries treat the refugees from Arab and Muslim countries or people who are not white, I should say. They treat the non-white refugees like dirt as if they are somehow not humans.
*** Even in the case of Ukrainian refugees, according to the UN, there are around 5 million Ukrainian refugees, and saying that we’ll take only 2% of them seems a lot less to me, especially when you consider the fact that this entire conflict started as a direct result of NATO expanding its territory, which - they knew - won’t be appreciated by Russia.
When America invaded Iraq in 2003, Syria took in around 1 million Iraqi refugees even though they don’t have the same infrastructure and facilities as the US.***
—-Let’s come back on their hypocrisy—-
According to Statista, only 11 Syrians were granted refugee status in America in 2018. In 8 years (2011-2018), the number of Syrian refugees taken by the US is dramatically less than the Ukrainian refugees they have planned to give the US citizenship to after merely 2 months of the invasion.
Again, I feel bad for the Ukrainian refugees. I have mercy for them but what about the non-white, non-blue-eyed, non-blond-haired, non-European refugees?
Even if the US admitted every single Syrian refugee (which they never will), I would still not be OK. You know why? Because I don’t want the refugees to be created in the first place. I don’t want the war to start in the first place.
Keeping in mind the fact that the military-industrial complex makes shitloads of money from never-ending wars and conflicts in the Middle East, Western Asia, and Africa, we can’t expect them to ever stop promoting wars in the foreign countries, but what we can expect is that they will at least take in or assist in any form the refugees they created. It turns out, they don’t. Refusing to accept the refugees that your warmongering created is equivalent to putting salt on the wounds.
Even the media corporations, in their effort to promote the government narrative, show how racist they are. Here are some of the craziest ones:
In February 2022, CBS News senior foreign policy correspondent Charlie D’Agata stated on live TV that Ukraine “isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European , one where you wouldn’t expect that.”
Seriously? Violence is not inherited to Europe? What about WWI or WWII or the Holocaust or the Cold War, to name a few? And these events are just from the past century.
He thinks that the violence is only reserved for places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Had he studied even a little bit history, he would have known who brought the violence in the Middle East?
French BFM TV anchor Philippe Corbe says: “We’re not talking here about Syrians fleeing the bombing of the Syrian regime backed by Putin, we’re talking about Europeans leaving in cars that look like ours.”
Translation: If you are a Syrian fleeing violence, we don’t care about your lives, but if you are a European and look like us, we’ll do everything to protect you.
Even the Bulgarian president - Kiril Petkov - came out and spilled nonsense, “These [Ukrainian refugees] people are intelligent, they are educated people.... This is not the refugee wave we have been used to, people we were not sure about their identity, people with unclear pasts, who could have been even terrorists.”
Terrorists? Non-white people fleeing war zones are terrorists?
If this is not racism, nothing is.
During the so-called refugee crisis of 2015, 1.3 million people sought asylum in Europe. Most of them were from Syria, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and other “uncivilized” countries, as they like to say it.
You certainly won’t be surprised after knowing what they did during this “refugee crisis.”
The European or so-called “democratic” countries closed their shitty borders and treated the refugees like cattle.
The same Europe is now accepting the Ukrainian refugees with red carpet. Why? Because they are “white, blond-haired, blue-eyed, civilized Europeans.” This is as disconnected from reality as you can possibly imagine. Humans have not yet invented the bombs that ask for your nationality first and then decide whether to explode or not.
Recently, Germany evicted Afghan refugees so that they can take in more Ukrainian refugees. Take a moment and denounce this move as much as you can.
Think about how bad those Afghans might be feeling after this racist move by Germany. They first got their country destroyed by the wars that are sponsored by the West, and when they have to flee their country and seek asylum in a foreign country, they get thrown out like trash just to make way for white, European refugees.
Nothing in the Refugee Convention of 1951 states that you can discriminate against refugees based on their skin color, nationality, education, or any other metric. NOTHING. Thus, all of their justifications to discriminate goes down the toilet.
If you are a Black/Brown refugee fleeing homeland due to war, you are supposed to have as many rights as the white refugee may have. Sadistically, this is nothing more than an imaginary concept when we look at the current state of the world.
What does this tell you?
That refugees were never the problem, black/brown refugees were the problem. The problem was race.
That they value skin color, nationality more than human life.
That they have no principles.
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