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It may be true that Russia is trying to orchestrate disinformation campaigns around the world, but it is simply preying on feelings that are already quite strong in the West. It is not creating these feelings.
Can they be explained by feelings other than "hate" as the Left often likes to clumsily portray? Of course they can. It is reasonable to have a problem with huge waves of people entering countries in unchecked masses, often people who have very little skills and come from cultures very different from the ones they are flooding into. That would be a problem in any country.
Additionally, the far Left believes in "salad bowls" instead of "melting pots", that one's native culture is valuable and that it should be preserved. The combination of mass immigration with these regressive ideals leads to division and distrust within nations.
It is the entire Leftist ideology of identity politics combined with mass immigration that causes so much frustration and anger among people, who get even angrier when their reasonable views are labeled "far right".
Immigration must be legal and controlled and steady so that assimilation happens naturally without coercion, which would certainly backfire.
Can they be explained by feelings other than "hate" as the Left often likes to clumsily portray? Of course they can. It is reasonable to have a problem with huge waves of people entering countries in unchecked masses, often people who have very little skills and come from cultures very different from the ones they are flooding into. That would be a problem in any country.
Additionally, the far Left believes in "salad bowls" instead of "melting pots", that one's native culture is valuable and that it should be preserved. The combination of mass immigration with these regressive ideals leads to division and distrust within nations.
It is the entire Leftist ideology of identity politics combined with mass immigration that causes so much frustration and anger among people, who get even angrier when their reasonable views are labeled "far right".
Immigration must be legal and controlled and steady so that assimilation happens naturally without coercion, which would certainly backfire.
The New York Times is at least as guilty in stoking ethnic tensions as Putin is, but probably has more power to do so. Witness their absolute propaganda reporting on the Duke Lacrosse case, Ferguson, their willingness to hire Sarah Jeong.
One of the more disturbing things I've read recently
Mr. Saleh later took a Danish journalist to meet two of the young men. After searching online, they recognized the logo of the Russian state-owned news channel NTV, along with the Russians who had made the offer.
The journalist contacted NTV, which denied the whole thing. But besides Mr. Castillo, the night watchman, The Times found other witnesses who backed up Mr. Saleh’s account.
Elvir Kazinic and Mustafa Zatara said they were in the square a couple of days after the clash when they overheard another group of young men talking about Russian journalists and a 400 krona bribe to fight.
I learned something from this: fake violence paid for by Russian journalists.