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by reitanqild 3220 days ago
Actually the following facts are true:

- western families have fewer kids

- some politicians - at least in some countries in the West - tells people we need immigration

You might not like it and as usual correlation doesn't prove causation.

That still doesn't give you the right to be uncivil here.
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mercurysmessage 3220 days ago
Uncivil? The uncivil one is the the one who spends most of his time on HN spouting ignorant anti-immigration rhetoric.
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reitanqild 3220 days ago
S/he was pointing out facts.

And s/he did so without accusing anyone of being "unfounded, ignorant".

And without accusing anyone of being "so locked into your position that it doesn't matter what you are shown, you will ignore it and instead fall back to your ignorant position."

Was it anti-immigration? I guess so. Was it off topic? Possibly, I'll let the mods decide.

But you are the one who bring the accusations.

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mercurysmessage 3220 days ago
An anti-immigrant stance is by definition unfounded and ignorant.

I know s/he is locked in their position because of how often they bring it up in threads all over HN.

It doesn't matter if I'm making an accusation. The other poster comments frequently on immigration on HN.

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reitanqild 3220 days ago
An anti-immigrant stance is by definition unfounded and ignorant.

This is plain wrong (edit: as can be proved by looking up the definitions.)

If you said racist, then I would agree.

But there are a number of good reasons to be sceptical to certain kinds of large scale migrations.

Edit:

I know s/he is locked in their position because of how often they bring it up in threads all over HN.

You have just admitted to the same in this very thread.

It doesn't matter if I'm making an accusation. The other poster comments frequently on immigration on HN.

Commenting on immigration is not a crime. If you think a comment is somehow against the guidelines then flag it: the mods here are pretty fair (and can flame people way better than anyone of us).

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mercurysmessage 3220 days ago
Well, racist requires there to be race so I'd argue xenophobic rather than racist, but how is that not ignorant?

Where was large scale migration ever mentioned? It's hard to migrate, that is a fact.

>Commenting on immigration is not a crime.

Neither is replying to a comment on immigration.

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