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Nuvendil on 04 August 2016
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OdinHades said:

I'm with Merkel on this one. Damn right the refugees come with problems. It costs a ton of money, it asks for a lot from german citizens and it will continue to bring problems for decades to come. But I for once do not want to be remembered by future generations as an asshole who doesn't care about other people. The sacrifices we have to make are little in the big picture. All day long people here are yelling about how they would love to help people who live under bad conditions but they are just not able to. Then they pay their 5 € a month to save the children and feel like a better human. Now, right now, when they actually have the chance to do something, they do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Instead, they want people out of their country, they are afraid they couldn't be as rich as they are tomorrow and whatnot. Nationalism on the rise because of fear and hate. It makes me sick.

Ok, that's just some people, I also know many guys and lads who are doing everything they can. We are helping out in a local refugee camp. We don't get paid, we do it just to help these people. There are 12 families here form Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. All good people, my son loves to play with the other children. We help them maintain their houses, explain them how everything works in germany (the waste seperation is a real problem for them ^^), we translate their documents and really do all we can to help them integrate. But then we also get up in the middle of the night to fight some goddamn nazis who are throwing rocks at the camp for no reason at all. They don't know these people, they just hate them for no reason at all. It makes me so fucking sick.

Anyway, people are fast with prejudices. Of course there are bound to be some assholes in such a big refugee crisis, but I am absolutely convinced that the majority really needs help. Countless refugees told me how they didn't want to leave their country but they had no choice. They are also not uneducated as you hear it from certain groups. In our refugee camps, there is a high school teacher, a doctor and even a physics professor! All they need to do is learn our language and they could help our economy in a great way. Germany is dying for educated workers for crying out loud!

I beg you, if you want to make any judge in this topic, first go out there and really deal with what's up. Talk to the people, see for yourself how "bad" they really are. Don't just jump to conclusions because of overdramatized stories in the news. Don't judge a whole group if people just because two or three assholes decided to go postal. It's not fair in any way.

These people have nowhere else to go. It's not our duty to help them, but it is a big fat giant test of history. Think very closely about how you and your generation should be remembered in future history books. That's all I have to say.

So your response to those generalizing and sensationalizing this situation in a negative way is...to generalize and sensationalize this in the opposite direction?   I oppose the free-flow of migrants not because I hate them or believer the majority are bad.  I recognize that's not the case.  But what you ignore is what the very governemtn that is all for keeping the borders oppen admits:  there are huge, real security risks and potential threats to national stability here.  You're story is touching, but the job of the government of any nation must be an impartial judge with concerns to the security and well-being of their people, not all people.  They must be blind to both positive AND negative prejudices.  It the duty of every governemtn to decide impartially what is best for their people.  The government of a sovereign nation cannot be swayed by emotional appeals from either side to go against the wellfare of their people.  In short, someone charged with the safeguarding of he wellfare of 80 million people cannot be moved to any decisions purely based on the story of 12 families, no matter how touching.  They have to take a distant view and account for their people's wellbeing.  Cultural fragmentation, financial and economic burdens, security risks, all these are real dangers with mass influxes of migrants who are unwilling to integrate in to society (or unable, which is oftent the case with massive groups of refugees). 

I'm not saying build a wall around Germany, I don't think any rational person is.  But caution has to be exercised, some kind of screening needs to be in place.  Letting bad apples through doesn't just endanger Germans, it endangers the refugees.  Where do you think those psychos live?  In the same camps as those innocent refugees.  And it's not like free movement through Europe is the only way the EU and UN can help these people.  A modicum of control, policing, and security would serve all groups better.