traininthedistance
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« on: September 04, 2015, 07:27:51 AM » |
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Maybe I missed it, but I don't see any mention in this thread as to how Merkel and Germany have been taking the lead in welcoming refugees, and (after some hemming and hawing) being willing to frame it as the moral issue that it is.
I've had harsh words for Merkel and Germany in the past, so I just want to go on record saying that credit where it's due, and I take back many of those harsh words. They're doing the right thing and more of Europe should follow their lead. (And so should America! Though we are an ocean away; the refugees we most need to take in are Central American instead.)
As for the tenor of this current flamewar: yes, we can couch things in questions of political feasibility, but as is so often the case it is hard for me to look past what just is "the moral unacceptability of the NIMBY-aspect". That is all.
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