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by mnw21cam 1762 days ago
Sounds like fear to me.
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Well it's the very definition of xenophobia, for racist reasons.
I think what you're describing as xenophobia is fear of the other. What I see here is the fear of someone who would actually like to do the right thing, but has fear of what their own kind will do to them.
Not to excuse racism in any way, shape or form. But I think that fear and racism are quite tightly connected.
The fear that you and your tribe’s quality of life will go down if resources, especially hours of low paid labor, were more equally distributed?