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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
I hate to be the guy to bring this up, or ask this question, but when Europe (as well as most domestic media outlets) have stopped referring to the Syrians as refugees long ago, why are we suddenly changing the language from 'migrant' once it is decided that we are bringing 25K into Canada?
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Umm, what? That's just blatantly not true, where did you even get such a nonsensical idea?
As for the rest of your post, every single one of those issues has been discussed to death in Europe, and answered. If you had actually been following it.
For example "avoiding conscription" is so blatantly deliberately obfuscating the issue that it's really just blatant racists who say it anymore. In fact it's only pretty much the worst racists in Europe who talk about it.
Forced conscription is the only type going around, and all the sides doing that are warcriminals such as Syrian dictatorship government or ISIS. Unless you're a Kurd there isn't really a reasonable side to fight on. This is pretty obvious if you follow the everyday news.
As for the problems with the Syrian refugees, there really is one type. For what ever reason it has brought out a mind-boggling amount of racism all over Europe. Adults spitting on brown children in public transportation and telling them they should have been aborted. Grown men threatening Red Cross volunteers collecting money for emergency efforts. Children in playgrounds being taught to call foreign lookin kids monkeys. Just in Finland( generally one of the most peaceful countries when it comes to political violence) has seen numerous attempts to burn down refugee centres. Nazis have thrown Molotov cocktails on people walking on the streets. Luckily those idiots are also generally too incompetent to light up anything other than their own pants, but if this keeps up they will learn.
None of this stuff is common in the sense that most people would do it, but it's common in the sense that you hear about it all the time if you know coloured people or people working with refugees. (Big differences between countries of course.)
Oh and it seems it's okay again to call yourself a national socialist again in conversation and be elected to parliament for example. You can also setup a "street patrol" as a Nazi and most people go " yeah what ever works". That's really scary.
The media is just feeding the frenzy. For example when Supo (Finnish "CIA") released a report on how the refugee situation has affected national safety, it was mostly about already increased right wing violence with the addition that there might "possibly be an increase in interest in extreme Islamism, and some people arriving with connections to islamists", every news source reported it the same.
"Supo: Refugees a safety risk!"
I'm mostly saying this because seriously THOSE are the problems you should expect. The refugees themselves... You might actually forget they're here. Some complain about the food in refugee centres.
Generally, it seems literal fascism is going to be a thing again, and the refugee thing is bringing it up. I have to say I did not see that coming.