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@nparker

“I admire the very generous and compassionate approaches that were taken particularly by leaders like Angela Merkel, but I think it is fair to say Europe has done its part, and must send a very clear message – ‘we are not going to be able to continue provide refuge and support’ – because if we don’t deal with the migration issue it will continue to roil the body politic.”

Deny what’s in front of you all you’d like.

Edit didn’t work, so apologies for the double post.

@Rabid Rabbit
Priscilla Poopalot is correct; it’s the “autistic screeching” meme.

@GenJones
Its all good. Thanks for understanding. ?

I went and looked it up, it seems the “autistic screeching” meme was technically unrelated. It’s apparently based off youtube compilations of the sound frogs make when they feel threatened —-> As the Pepe frog is a symbol of 4chan and the alt-right, it was associated with the “Angry Pepe” meme —>was appropriated as shorthand for their excessive resentfulness and being easily provoked when the joke is at their expense—> Profit???

Not that it really matters, if the two memes have become conflated due to admittedly striking similarities, the meta-connotations have been attached and therefore it becomes the same. I probably should consider avoiding internet lingo and memes altogether at this point, I’m not dedicated enough to keep up, and too much floating in the mainstream these days seems to trace back to crypto-fascism somehow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt4zvJNXbdI

How I long for simpler times.

Here’s the thing, though: Clinton delivered the remarks at a panel of former PMs/candidates. She got on a stage with Tony Blair (!) and said these things – basically, that the best way to fight fascism is to enact its policy agenda in a gentler form. Classic Clintonain triangulation. Which is not only bad governance, but is also terrible politics – too much of the populace has been radicalized for that to work anymore. After all, why vote for fascist-lite when you can vote for the real thing?

Just because she was the victim of a decades-long misogynist smear campaign doesn’t make her perfect, and remarks delivered at a forum for world leaders are absolutely fair game for criticism.

This whole Clinton/migrant dustup reminds me of the issue when David Suzuki said “Canada’s full” and a whole bunch of racists were like “See? Even your precious David Suzuki doesn’t want immigrants!” when his point was more about how much the average Canadian consumes and how much waste is generated. Suzuki is an environmentalist, which sometimes gets in the way of his humanism.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/hussan/2013/07/open-letter-to-david-suzuki-canadas-immigration-policy-disgusting-not-

Just because we admire him doesn’t mean we agree with him here.

You know, people in Europa are mad at immigrant, but because they are becoming poorer each year.

You say this as if it’s different from the reason USians are angry at immigrants. It’s not. They blame it on “economic anxiety.” Hillary believes more strongly in individual economic choices than I’d like, but for a US politician she’s pretty far from economic liberalism. That’s not saying much, considering USian left is really right of center, but still she was never pushing an anti-immigrant policy here on economical grounds, so I don’t think it’s correct that she’s doing it in this instance for that reason.

@ Sbel

Clinton isn’t acting like a private citizen. Private citizens don’t have that kind of influence and aren’t given her platform. She’s a very public and very political figure. I’d be very okay with everyone ignoring her statements, but that’s not what’s going to happen. It’s important to call her out for aiding fascists.