I see it as: You either DON'T care about the immigration crisis itself as an isolated phenomenon because it's alien to you, or because you see it as subordinated to the pulses of global capital; or you care (or pretend to care) about immigration as a matter or maybe deep personal ethic and moral indignation, or a pretense of altruistic admonition which you feel obliged to solidarize towards in an act of virtue signaling.
It's so phony, and I am not interested in being sold a moral position, or a new set of virtues, my silent consent and my nodding of your ideas and your words against these evils, is irrelevant because the evils remain, and I also remain deatached from the situation -I have my own problems, solidarity be damned.- so what is the fucking point of jerking about how different and how on-the-right-side-of-history we are? a total pointless masturbatory exercise.
SI feel a lot of insincerity comming from people who argue about the refugees and the crisis and immigration and such, in a way that they reflect a humanitarian paradigm while doing it. First of all I do not appreciate the patronizing attitude towards third-worlders (as if we can do no wrong, or are somehow, less responsible for ourselves), and I don't appreciate the guiltripping towards the first and second world nations. Maybe it's because I'm from a third world shithole myself, who knows? but the point is that I terribly dislike this humanitarian discourse "oh we gotta help the poor people, we got to make attonements for our sins of the past towards them… had global capital not destroyed their country they wouldn't be in this terrible situation, we gotta do our part" that's not something I appreciate, firstly because I dislike emotional manipulation and blackmailing, and secondly: B ecause it doesn't adress the main problem and I think both left and right have failed to adress this Issue properly: We do not demand our so-called leaders "Look you gotta pull the fuck out now, you gotta end interventionism politics and we refuse to give our consent to destruction and proxy warfare on our behalf! we take immediate action to the streets demanding new, uncompromising measure". The right doesn't want to assume the consequences of interventionism -and honestly, why should any private citizen assume them?- And The left acknowledges that their nations are part of what's causing the suffering they are denouncing, but at the same time they refuse to take a true active stance in defusing the situation, and instead what we have is the problem of the crisis turned into a plataform for social-democratic reforms and policies in their own countries.
That is, they use the situation: "oh look at what inhumane capitalism is causing, the suffering and the injustice! it's time we gave capitalism a socialist make-over…" and it's all just a waste of everyone's time. Because the problem is not solved, the underlying causes are not tackled. Instead what we get is this positive feel-good bullshit, that the left is somehow attoning for the sins of Global Capital, by being tolerant and anti-racist and pro-immigration and denouncing the evils of interventionism… but without doing anything substantial? It seems to me now that the leaders of the global left depend on these problems to justify their existance and remain relevant, even at the cost of millions of lives they are supposedly interested in saving…
So I don't see any sort of consistency within the discourse of the Refugee crisis, at least not comming from the relevant left, but not just that, I also see a fairly disgusting interest in the continuation of this crisis, because it enables the left (specially the liberal left) to empower themselves through political plataforming "look what we are doing, we are so good, we are on the right side, please join us!". It allows antifa degenerates to go out and roleplay, pretend like they matter, it also allows these limp-wristed academia types to gain airtime on the TV and preach their humanist platitudes everyone knows, and people get to feel good about posting on facebook their little "refugees welcome" image.