Shriver

Lionel Shriver is one of the few who writes — who is allowed to write — sensibly about immigration and the “open borders” scam.

I am going to present parts of her article out of order to better make my own point.

Europe lies next door to a continent whose population will double to 2.5 billion by 2050, rising to an eye-popping 4.5 billion by 2100. This is the continent likely to suffer the most from climate change, already afflicted with desertification, and always prone to drought. It’s poor and corrupt. Its governance is broadly appalling. And most Africans have mobiles, connecting them to promised lands where life isn’t quite so nasty, brutish and short.

It is simply not practical to allow even 10% of Africa into Europe — even if they are all white South Africans, so no one can shout racism. It is just not a thing that can happen. The ultra-moronic liberal “open borders” crowd would rather, I guess, see their entire civilization burn to the ground than admit a simple truth.

Millions if not billions of decent, ordinary people in need of food, clean water, shelter and medical care are bound to constitute a form of moral blackmail. They will all have heartbreaking stories. And if we continue to confront the issue as a question of sympathy rather than existential self-interest, they will nearly all get in.

What I utterly despise about the braindead “open borders” crowd is that they attempt to use your sympathy, your sense of obligation, to force extremely harmful changes on you, your neighborhood, your entire society. It’s a scam, a racket, and anyone who falls for it has mental issues. Is it really sympathetic to allow in so many people that do not share your values, do not care about your culture, that the entire society dissolves into chaos and warfare and misogyny?

I think the answer to that is a definite “no.”