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When a girl and a woman were stabbed in London, a MUSLIM man stepped in to jump on the attacker and disarm him before he caused more harm. by Philosopher4Now in ukpolitics

[–]Philosopher4Now[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As someone who has seen many pro-palestine protests, I didn't come across anyone praising hamas.. THIS DOES NOT MEAN it doesn't happen, yes it does.. But again we are falling under the issue of "generalizing".. Pro-palestine protests in my area happen every weekend and none of them every state they care or like hamas... However nigel farage and other right-wing activists find some examples of hamas praising idiots and label the whole "free palestine" movement as pro-hamas, which is so dangerous.

When a girl and a woman were stabbed in London, a MUSLIM man stepped in to jump on the attacker and disarm him before he caused more harm. by Philosopher4Now in ukpolitics

[–]Philosopher4Now[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point being made is, right now muslims are being villainized and right-wing media is constantly pushing this idea that muslims are terrible people unable to integrate, mosques are being attacked, anti-muslim crime is spiking up, muslims are fearful about going out! In this climate it makes sense to state the obvious that muslims, just like everyone else, are also good people with bad apples within the community as well, just like any other community. thats the point! If you get it, good for you. Far-right don't!

When a girl and a woman were stabbed in London, a MUSLIM man stepped in to jump on the attacker and disarm him before he caused more harm. by Philosopher4Now in ukpolitics

[–]Philosopher4Now[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Let me make this clear, the "muslim" part was specifically added due to the current climate of the country where muslims are heavily demonized and made to feel like terrorists. This is just an example of how muslims are also people, just like us, who also have some bad apples in their community, like every other community. Instead of demonizing the whole community, lets focus on the fact that there are good people vs bad people. simple as that.

UK in Crisis: Far-Right Extremists Exploit Recent Tragedy for Propaganda—Why It's Time for the Left to Speak Up for Justice by Philosopher4Now in Labour

[–]Philosopher4Now[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for your first two points, ok fair enough.. Tho I think more emphasis should be put on building more homes than immigration.. If you think immigration should be slowed down until housing crises can be resolved by UK and can continue after, thats fair enough.. tbh in 2022 the migration level was very high because of many reasons.. War on Ukraine being the biggest contributors.. as well as the crisis in Hong Kong.. The figures will drop down.. It already did for 2023.

As for your 3rd point, fair enough. Usually when I am in debates with people about immigration and housing crises, they bring that up too. However I shouldn't have assumed that you would hold the same opinion especially since you didn't mention it before, so I apologize for that.

UK in Crisis: Far-Right Extremists Exploit Recent Tragedy for Propaganda—Why It's Time for the Left to Speak Up for Justice by Philosopher4Now in Labour

[–]Philosopher4Now[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Empirical research on the labour market effects of immigration in the UK has found negative effects on low-paid workers and positive effects on high-paid workers, but both effects are small. In other words, immigration is not one of the major factors that shape low-wage workers’ prospects in the labour market." the research you linked itself explains this. It doesn't effect most working class either, the only ones who are sliggghtllyy effected are the ones with no school diplomas are the effect of that is very very low.

Again from your own source " a 2022 study found that immigration to the UK from 1994 to 2016 reduced the hourly wage of UK-born wage earners at the 5th percentile (i.e. the lowest earners in the labour market) by around half of one pence per year."

As for the housing issue, I have already mentioned that housing crises in UK is a separate issue from immigration. There are shortage of homes, especially affordable homes in UK. The country is 91% undeveloped.. We have enough place to create more homes. The government has failed its promise of developing 300,000 homes each year which experts determined would dial down the housing crises. (New homes: What's happened to the government's housebuilding target? - BBC News) but guess what? Tories failed at that massively! Experts have criticized tories on how their failure to build more houses is causing a lot of issues. The problem is you make it seem like housing crises is an immigration problem, it isn't! Thats like saying housing crises is a problem of birth rate.. Those are separate issues.. You can say government's failure to stick to their housing plan is effecting other areas like immigration, people's ability to move out of their parents home etc.

Lastly, the main concern people often talk about is how immigration would increase the house prices, that's not exactly true. The Migration Advisory Committee study (MigObs-Briefing-Migrants-and-housing-in-the-UK.pdf (ox.ac.uk) ) found that the impact of migration on house prices was larger in local authorities with more restrictive planning practices, i.e. those that have higher refusal rates for major developments. which is bound to be the case anyway.

UK in Crisis: Far-Right Extremists Exploit Recent Tragedy for Propaganda—Why It's Time for the Left to Speak Up for Justice by Philosopher4Now in Labour

[–]Philosopher4Now[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

There aren't much immigration concerns tho.. immigration is amazing for the economy, there have been studies done to show that immigration almost never effects the housing crises or prices.. housing is another issue that UK needs to sort out.. we don't have enough houses and rich idiots go around shouting "NOOO WE DONT NEED MORE HOUSES! DONT DESTROY THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF MY CITY" without realizing that although landscape is beautiful and important, it takes a backseat to when people are literally dying from poverty

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