Sandgeist ☔️

This revival of mid-2000s Rage Against The Machine-style "it's not the foreigners, its the rich!" line is so funny to me because it isn't completely incorrect, yet lefties STILL come to the wrong conclusion about it. The rich are the primary beneficiaries of mass migration. To use the retarded cookie example from the picture, the only reason the rich dude is able to prevent the domestic worker from demanding more cookies is because the foreigner is willing to accept a crumb. Most lefties understand this. This is a fairly basic leftist critique of immigration and globalization’s impact on labor. Yet when you go to the next logical step, which is to suggest immigration then be halted to allow the domestic worker to seize the cookies he is owed, the modern leftist will STILL look at you like you’ve shapeshifted into Hitler. Same goes for every other discussion about migration. Importing men from backwards, misogynistic cultures - the left should, in theory, oppose this. Importing people hyper-religious conservative countries - the left should, in theory, oppose this. Importing people who have no respect for the environment or animals - the left should, in theory, oppose this. The left has a stronger, more logically consistent case against immigration than the right does. That is precisely why being anti-immigration used to be a firmly leftist position. But today, it will get you excommunicated from any leftist circle. And why? Because George Soros came along in the 80s and brutally raped every single leftist org until they were buckbroken into the perfect, unwitting stewards of global capital. Now we are stuck listening to shitlibs talk about why it's more important to be “kind” to brown people than it is to stop little girls from getting groomed by Pakistanis. And this goes back to the stupid cookie drawing. The rich guy with the stack of cookies would NEVER tell you to hate the foreigner. He’d try to convince you the foreigner is a net benefit to your society. That he brings good food and culture and pizzazz. And when that stopped working on you, he’d tell you the foreigner is better than you, and that more foreigners are needed because you’re too lazy and stupid to accept a crumb instead of a whole cookie.