- Joined
- Jun 6, 2020
I can promise that this is going to turn into lots (more) political rhetoric as to why western nations need to take in billions of (brown) people from around the world (on top of the millions who've already been taken in.) Lots of Ukrainians (and without even having numbers in front of me I'm willing to bet that there are a far higher percentage of them who are actually women and children than in other situations especially with the government recently restricting fighting aged men from leaving) pretty clearly have a valid claim to refugee status at the moment and once (it's already started on social media to be fair) they're accepted the usual suspects will be whinging about how they're only being welcomed because they're white.Also get ready for the "we need more immigrants from Eastern Europe because the war and shit not because we want cheap workers pls".
Right now it's a bunch of socially approved sympathy (deservedly to be fair) for Ukrainians by people who had never heard of Kiev but are #standingwithkeev. By the end of the year many of these people will be lecturing about how Ukrainians have white privilege.