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His whole schtick is posting this bait about how white people are subhuman and deserve to be replaced by supposedly enlightened subcontinentals like him, never mind that it's trivially easy to check the stats on how much his Muslim cohorts in Britain consume in services relative to the taxes they contribute. He should really just be blocked as there's no point engaging; it's just racial revanchism masquerading as bourgeois indignation.
I do not think white people are subhuman, most of my friends are white and so are some of the smartest people I know (far smarter than me). If anything I'd say the average white is better than the average non-white. However the difference is that the average white is here living the high life off my taxes while the average non-white is not.
The Muslim cohorts in Britain right now are made up in large parts of the descendants of illiterate rural farmers. This is all due to poor selection policies of the UK in the past. I don't think they consume more in services than contribute any more than you'd expect of the descendants of illiterate rural farmers to do when placed in a welfare state.
These individuals are not "my people". Back home "my people" rule over them with an iron fist and keep these kinds in line, which is something the UK doesn't do and then acts shocked they go wild when all the restrictions placed on them to make them behave are removed.
Modern Muslim (non-refugee) immigration to the UK is no longer these types of people but rather mostly made up of middle class+ people who are going to have middle class+ kids and net contribute to society. That is what I am calling for more of, not more illiterate rural farmers.
This might have been true pre-pandemic but deliveroo student and carers visa that have allowed new immigrants to sponsor dependents have certainly changed the equation to the point that UK Indians no longer out-earn White Britons. Of course you don’t bring up social housing statistics either - strange that despite White Britons being such bums they are only 20th on the list of proportion of UK ethnicities living in social housing behind the supposedly superior “elect”.
I guess the people should perhaps dissolve their rulers since they can’t even be trusted with selecting properly.
Hindus ruling over muslims with an iron fist is also cope given the history of hindus being subjugated by foreign sultanates repeatedly thanks to the fractured nature of India. Try asking a gujurati to support a sindhi against a bihari and somehow it will be a tamil that benefits.
Unless he was saying that hindus rule over lowe classes with an iron fist. He is correct there, but whatever merits there are in that logic are not explicatable in polite society.
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So, instead of just the locals disappointing the decision-makers, the elites that decided to take such people and make them the elect are the disappointments?
So what's the point of the whole rant?
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Indeed
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