RolStoppable said:
He's refering to me and he really doesn't know how things are in Austria. We have a political party that is pretty much exclusively built around xenophobia and said party has had consistently good results in elections for decades. Any Austrian who tells you that Austrians don't have a tendency to be xenophobes is simply lying. And because xenophobia is so widespread, it could happen that a law like the recent burqa ban could be passed. A law that has much bigger consequences for Austrians than muslim immigrants, so I called it out for its stupidity. |
We have the same political atmosphere in Sweden. The left is describing the Swedish people as xenophobic because we have a similar party to FPÖ with 20% votes (The Sweden Democrats).
But I just think it's bizarre how such supposedly "xenophobic" and small countries like Austria and Sweden still manages to take in 100,000 thirld world migrants year after year to the point that their own natives now are ónly a decade or two away from ending up in minority.
It's bizarre. To me, a xenephobic people would close its borders and keep its populace homogenous.
But that's not what we are seeing. Austria and Sweden are the two most multicultural countries in the world and increasingly so at a record pace.
So it's unfair to just decribe them "xenophobic". At least nuance the analysis a little and perhaps say that the media, cultural and political elite is out of sync with the will of the common people, forcefully dragging in these masses of migrants against their will by using classic guilt tactics.
