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Hannah Arendt on refugees : Comments

By Genevieve Lloyd, published 22/7/2013

It is worth being mindful here of some historical shifts in the relations between concepts of 'refugee' and 'asylum seeker'.

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It is a fundamental Human Right for Australians to protect their own borders from economic migrants who simply wish to leave their dysfunctional societies and have the Australian population support them.
Posted by LEGO, Monday, 22 July 2013 5:03:23 PM
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Liberty, as they understand it, and prosperity, are things Australians have died in the many thousands and worked their butts off to win and to secure. Most Australians are comfortable for others to come and share both and help build both. But some fear that others who value prosperity but not liberty will come and strive to take liberty from us.

The only way to make these fears unfounded is to be seen to insist with every wannabe entrant that not only labour but also personal commitment to the principles of individual liberty up to at least the far from ideal standard to which we are accustomed is a not-negotiable requirement. Live it or go away. Even if dupes call insisting on respect for personal liberty and excluding its enemies bigotry or something-or-other-phobia
Posted by EmperorJulian, Monday, 22 July 2013 6:02:02 PM
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Something else that Australians cotton on to is the difference between immigrants and colonists. Immigrants spread out in the community as Australians. Colonists huddle together as citizens of the countries they come from or, worse, as belonging not to Australia but to the religion that made their former countries uninhabitable. It was to be very warmly welcomed when someone originally from Bosnia unabashedly swore allegiance (as a Cabinet Minister) on the Koran. Great that he naturally assumed, correctly, that he was one of us. People who objected really WERE bigots. It wasn't anything in the Koran made Bosnia a hellhole - it was Serb racism, which really IS something we can well do without.
Posted by EmperorJulian, Monday, 22 July 2013 6:55:26 PM
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Holocaust! Holocaust! Holocaust!

That’s all we ever hear from the Jews and white Academics.
No mention of the 15million Chinese killed by the Japanese in the years just preceeding World War2.
This is nearly triple the amount of the Jews killed by Hitler.

There seems to me, to be a racist element in this, it’s like
the Jews and Western society doesn’t give a stuff about the nearly
3times the amount of Chinese killed. By the way, I am of English, Scandinavian, descent not Chinese.

This focus on the holocaust gives the impression that it is out of the
ordinary for this kind of ethnic cleansing to take place, whereas in fact it has been commonplace throughout history,
and is still happening around the world. The Germans just used more modern methods.
The 15million Chinese may have died by gunfire,tank or
sword, but three times as many of them, are just as dead as the Jews.

The United Nations has been pretty powerless to stop the slaughter
in the past 60years since World War2, just think of the current
100,000 dead in Syria and Rwanda etc.

So how do academics and intellectuals like Hannah Arendt intend to stop it?
What gives them the power to stop something that no
man or woman has been able to? The truth is they can't stop it.
So they would be better off anticipating it and preparing for it
by not bringing big tribes of ethnic groups into this country.

They are just setting it up to happen.
Posted by CHERFUL, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 7:23:30 PM
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