And countries are responding now just as they did to Jews: turning them away. Oh sure, after WWII everyone was "shocked" and "sorry" that Jews sent back to Germany were executed en masse. After most of the Jews were safely dead and not in need of food, shelter, or any other assistance anymore. People will turn back desperate masses and then be "shocked" and "saddened" when a toddler winds up drowned on their beach. Well, when people are in dire situations, they will escape as best they can, and if nobody helps them do that safely then quite a lot of them will die along the way. So everyone who supports refugee-hostile polices becomes guilty of refoulement and shares part of the moral burden for those deaths, because their choices lead to actions that lead to dead refugees. Those who fight for human rights are not at fault for the errors of others.
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- Elizabeth Barrette (
ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
- Mood:
angry
Refugees Then and Now
And countries are responding now just as they did to Jews: turning them away. Oh sure, after WWII everyone was "shocked" and "sorry" that Jews sent back to Germany were executed en masse. After most of the Jews were safely dead and not in need of food, shelter, or any other assistance anymore. People will turn back desperate masses and then be "shocked" and "saddened" when a toddler winds up drowned on their beach. Well, when people are in dire situations, they will escape as best they can, and if nobody helps them do that safely then quite a lot of them will die along the way. So everyone who supports refugee-hostile polices becomes guilty of refoulement and shares part of the moral burden for those deaths, because their choices lead to actions that lead to dead refugees. Those who fight for human rights are not at fault for the errors of others.
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