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| Solidarity between Europeans is natural and positive |
"(...)It is, rather, the belief that our capacity to empathise with people’s hopes, fears and suffering is defined by whether they are 'like us'. It’s an argument that circumscribes solidarity along lines of identity. One of the ironies of much rightwing criticism of identity politics is the obliviousness to their own wallowing in the swamp of identity. (...) In the space of a week, a million refugees have fled Ukraine, half of them to Poland. That figure could rise in the coming weeks to four million. There has been much chaos and desperation in the rush to leave Ukraine. But in the receiving countries, the refugees have been met with great generosity, with open arms and open borders. (A notable exception is Britain, where the public supports a liberal policy but the government continues to drag its feet.) Compare this to the debate on the 'refugee crisis' of 2015 when Europe was apparently overwhelmed by an “invasion”. That year, Europe received 1.3m asylum applications, a sharp jump in numbers because of the Syrian war. The figures before and since have been much lower. Yet that one year, in which the total number of asylum seekers was barely more than that in a week from Ukraine, has become totemic of an overwhelmed continent, the reason for strengthening Fortress Europe and for holding hundreds of thousands inthe most appalling conditions on both sides of the Mediterranean."
Left-wing immigrant and liberal Kenan Malik is attacking Europeans for being willing of showing solidarity with Ukrainian refugees. He scolds us hoping that we feel guilty about recognizing ourselves as white and acting accordingly.
In fact, this is what annoys immigrants and Malik as well as our idiots and traitors. That, despite decades of propaganda and indoctrination seeking the opposite, our European identity consciousness is infinitely stronger than they thought.
This leads us to help ours. In the same way that Malik feels pushed to help other immigrants from outside Europe like him. What he feels is legitimate. It is not, however, that he wants to force the Europeans to take over in our land people who are alien and often hostile to us.
This Indian reproaches us with our almost instinctive drive for solidarity with our people by collectively identifying them, by identifying ourselves, as Europeans.
He invokes the internationalist discourse of the initial British left to try to justify it. It is highly doubtful, however, that this discourse would want our demographic replacement through Asian, African, or Latin American immigration.
Malik's tantrum is thus dishonest and biased. He is one of those who criticize any expression of our identity consciousness while claiming our recognition, in our land, of any other foreign identity.
What do Malik and his people want in the end? They lead us to minority, to uprooting, and thus to languish resignedly to our extinction. Evil that is already visible in many of the big European cities.
Is that what we want?
