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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023

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Many countries offer citizenship by blood

True, but this surely just narrows the question to those who don't qualify for that, either because their origin country doesn't recognise it or they are third generation (so no Syrian national parents), or something else. Also, even if technically you could deport a second generation immigrant to Syria (I mean really they couldn't because that would presumably turn them into an international pariah, the costs of which would surely exceed the costs of just putting them in prison in Sweden), that is surely very cruel, to deport someone who has never even lived there to a country in active civil war?

True, but this surely just narrows the question to those who don't qualify for that, either because their origin country doesn't recognise it or they are third generation

Forced relocation to overseas territories, I guess. Good old prison islands. Give them a lower tier of citizenship that only applies to these containment zones and nowhere else. Quarantine, essentially.

I mean really they couldn't because that would presumably turn them into an international pariah

It's long past time we stopped giving a shit about this. We in Europe cannot simply let ourselves be destroyed just because "oooh what will the neighbours think?"

that is surely very cruel, to deport someone who has never even lived there to a country in active civil war?

Better than them causing a civil war in a first world country. I don't really give a fuck what happens to the kind of scum that joins a criminal gang, to be perfectly honest.

I don't really give a fuck what happens to the kind of scum that joins a criminal gang, to be perfectly honest.

Then execute them. There's precedent for this, even. After all, a gang is just an insurgency writ small. Corner them, and give them severe punishment followed by lifetime monitoring (and no association with their past gang members on penalty of death). Roger Trinquier perfected this system nearly half a century ago. The Israelis also have quite a bit of prior art to draw upon.

It's long past time we stopped giving a shit about this. We in Europe cannot simply let ourselves be destroyed just because "oooh what will the neighbours think?"

For better or for worse, what the 'neighbours' think does matter. Good luck remaining in the Customs Union/EU and joining NATO, or indeed enjoying Western military support after you deport all your Syrians to an island prison for the crime of being a refugee.

I don't really give a fuck what happens to the kind of scum that joins a criminal gang, to be perfectly honest.

Talk about undermining Western values; I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.

I take no pleasure from the death of the wicked, but that they turn from their ways and live.

Better than them causing a civil war in a first world country. I don't really give a fuck what happens to the kind of scum that joins a criminal gang, to be perfectly honest.

Didn't you just say you would deport people for parking tickets? That's very different from joining a gang.

I mean, I said ideally, but I'm willing to be flexible. A little.

Better than them causing a civil war in a first world country.

Your proposal itself would be enough to start a civil war in a first world country. The "we" in your case is not some silent majority of Europeans but a tiny minority that would first have to carve a bloody swathe through your own kin to seize the kind of power needed to conduct mass deportations.

It is the Laestadians, traditionalist Catholics, and other rapidly growing Christian sects who have the right approach, as they have the potential to weather the coming storm and outbreed the other survivors.

Mass immigration is deeply unpopular. I think the tiny minority of pro-migration people will just quietly shut up, to be honest. They're not the types that go in for conflict.

Maybe it's true that 'mass immigration' is deeply unpopular, but deporting second-generation immigrants to Syria over minor offences would definitely be much more unpopular. There was a substantial minority in favour of letting Shamima return and she joined ISIS, the shitstorm over an equivalent case for a minor offence would be extraordinary.

There was a substantial minority in favour of letting Shamima return and she joined ISIS

Yes, we have a substantial minority of traitors in this country. They should not be heeded. This is a problem with England that even Orwell has noted, that it's academic class generally loathes the country. I also routinely have arguments with people who think foreign rapists and murderers should NOT be deported.

Yes, it's true there is no-one at all with sincerely different views to yours, that wouldn't do, they're all traitors and hate the country. This is handy, as it allows the rest of us not to bother with thinking about things.

Wanting an avowed terrorist back into the country so she can face the terrifying justice of a 6 month suspended sentence, before being awarded a council house and benefits with which to pump out more kids with the local hate imam is traitorous, yes. I'm not going to pretend it isn't.

And we all know that is what would happen, because most of her crimes weren't committed here, we don't have any evidence for them even if we had standing to prosecute them, and our anarcho-tyrannical justice system is completely toothless where it counts, and only really goes after ordinary citizens who defend themselves against criminals or who say mean words on the internet.

There's a big difference between opposing mass immigration and supporting mass deportation. The closest thing to what you propose that I can think of was the expulsion of the Germans from Eastern Europe in 1945 and that was at the conclusion of a genocidal war and carried out by a communist government crueler than any a modern western European population could ever produce.

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