| sonicfan1373 said:
Wow your sentiments are really misguided. I was born in the Middle East to a primarly Muslim family (though we have members from other faiths as well). We legally came to the West to start a new life. My mother and I converted to Christianity, a fact which my (largely Muslim) extended family accepted without issue. I am not a savage, I am not a "stone-age scum", my family works and we support ourself, we believe in Western values such as equality and state secularism as well as individualism, I also believe that women as well as everyone else should be treated with oughtmost respect. Also before calling me a savage, I would like to remind you that you are the one who felt comforted by the fact that a refugee center was burned down by a group nationalists. You are also the one targetting, deindividualising, and dehumanizing a wide group of people, who individually have varying beliefs and come from different situations, and painting all of them with a wide brush. I do not object that there are people from Africa, Middle East, and East Asia who do not desire to integrate and yes some of these people do try to force their views and ideologies on others and as such these people need to be prevented from entering Western nations. However, it is neither fair nor just to blame all of the people who happen to originate from these regions because of the actions of some. I did not choose to be born in the Middle East but when I was given the opportunity for a better life I chose to take it and I chose to integrate and immerse myself in the culture of the country and people who so kindly gave me this second opportunity at life. |
Bolded; this is part of the problem, you're doing exactly what many swedes are doing and likening nationalism in itself to nazism, this is simply not how it works. Nationalism and patriotism can exist independently from national socialism, there is even left wing nationalism.
This is one of the reasons the Swedish debate is screwed; several groups are lumped together without any coherent reason as to why other than a few general points in common (such as belonging to right or left wing ideology) and people attempt to still arguments and criticism by seemingly rendering them invalid or irrelevant through likening opposition to nazis or communists.
Nationalism is not in and on itself a movement or ideology that would support the burning of refugee centers.
PS: No, I'm not a nationalist, far from it. (Nor am I a communist... 
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