the idea that Trump/Brexit are purely a racism thing disregards the angst about globalisation that is taking place across the globe, not just in Anglo nations.
sure, people are racist, that’s unsurprising, but people are also exposed to economic dislocations without any sugar coating justification or vision of a hopeful future to come, it’s no surprise that they react with fear and anger.
@slartibartfastibast: Also all that rape. But pointing it out gets you sent to racial sensitivity training. So it must be racist.
@argumate: jesus like I said you can kick out all the brown folk and the problem will still be there, give it a rest
@slartibartfastibast: You’re out of your mind. There are potentially a million kids getting trafficked in the UK, specifically by familial Pakistani grooming gangs. Rotherham has a tiny immigrant community that does half the child rape. What the fuck has to happen to make you acknowledge reality?
Argumate man, he’s not going to give it a rest until they actually do something about it. And it isn’t “brown people,” generic. This is a cultural thing tied to a specific ethnic group.
And part of the reason he’s not going to give it a rest until they do something about it is that ignoring the problem in an attempt to preserve the dominant Liberal Globalist ideology is driving the adoption of right-wing philosophies in America and across Europe.
There’s still time to separate it out from race, but to do that, we have to attach it to culture, and give up on the idea that all cultures are equally valuable.
@andhishorse: Would the same people be the same amount of distressed if all the jobs were going to Western Europe, instead of various parts of Asia? If so, would the dissatisfaction with globalism be so easy to invoke, and its beneficiaries so easy to villainize?
China is a continent-spanning superstate only a few hundred thousand kilometers short of the size of America, and both of them are over nine million kilometers in size. It has three times as many people, and an authoritarian government that arose from a Communist revolution, known to engage in cyberespionage, which has more-or-less deliberately poked its straw into international finance and global capitalism in order to revitalize itself while not even fully liberalizing its economy, much less its government.
China’s government is a major rival to American global political dominance and liberal democracy on Earth.
Making Europe comparable would take a far more serious alternate history exercise than merely turning it into a fast-growing economic powerhouse.
