#fiach talks

i didn’t realise people actually read my posts. anyways i’m not sure but it was some fuckass european saying that immigration is different in america than it is in europe - that is to say that (legal!) immigration to america is okay but immigration to europe is some kind of atrocity.

it’s just copium, cause these kind of people don’t like anti-immigrant right wing americans and doesn’t want to associate themselves with them, so they perform these mental gymnastics to justify opposing immigration of certain ethnicities to europe on the (untrue) belief that these people are violent/abusive/anti-social/scroungers/whatever terrible adjective is popular to use at any given time.

i also think about the boat of migrants, 500 or so, who died off the greek coast. we don’t know the exact number and most of their bodies were never recovered.

the usa and canada spent so much money to try and find these five men on the submersible, so much airtime was given to them, an outpouring of support and sympathy, and so much empathy, so much empathy for these people, who must’ve been cold and scared at the bottom of the ocean before they died quite suddenly and according to the experts, completely painlessly.

on the other hand, the greek coast guard is being charged with neglect because nobody had any empathy for the poor desperate men on that boat, fleeing pakistan, palestine, syria, egypt. no effort to save them, not much airtime, no outpouring of support, and of course no empathy for these men, who were presumably also cold, and scared, and died quite horribly in the ocean when their boat sank.

and yet, here we are. brigadier sir francis kitson viewed the people of kenya and northern ireland as 'little more than laboratory rats to test his military theories." his pet project in northern ireland, the mrf, had a former member testify, "we were not there to act like an army unit, we were there to act like a terror group."

here'sthe link - https://archiveofourown.org/works/67577726.