Reposting this from Qasim Rashid, esq. on Mastodon.

(I do know this is discoverable from Mastodon but heck consider it a boost).

  • rty654rty654@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Only rich people matter.

    Poor people aren’t human and therefore don’t deserve rights or help.

    • swnt@feddit.deEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      As I grow older and looked more closely at how stuff work in society, I am disappointed, that in many places it does work exactly like this.

      sure, in developed countries many “normal” peoel also have many rights, but that’ll end quickly if you seriously try to mess with the establishes power structures

      • happyspark@kbin.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’d argue it’s actually “most places” rather than “many”. It’s not so obvious in day-to-day life but like if I had to take an ambulance tonight, me and my estate would be on the hook for the bill, but a billionaire would not be.

  • julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Seeing people suggesting that rescue efforts encourage more people to take the risk of crossing. Not true if you look at the data.

    these results strongly suggest that…the absence of SAR operations…has little or no effect on the number of arrivals

    Oxford study.

    • SomeDude@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      the risk of crossing

      This is the crucial part - there wouldn’t (and shouldn’t) be no risk in the first place. People should be allowed to just board a boat, or a flight, or a bus, towards the EU, and apply for asylum at the port/airport/border checkpoint.

      That’s literally the idea of the Geneva convention for refugees. However, our stupid xenophobic politicians came up with a law that expressly kills this process.

      Because when someone applies for asylum, obviously someone must check if this person deserves asylum in the first place. Are they a refugee according to the Geneva convention? Are they a threatened minority in their home country? Etc.

      This takes time, and during that time, the person needs to live somewhere. Well, and our wonderful EU law states that the transporting party (i.e. the cruise line/airline/bus company) needs to house and feed the people until they were processed. And if the people don’t qualify for asylum, the transporting party is also responsible for transporting them back.

      And this is why refugees can’t take a “normal” flight, boat cruise, or bus trip - the travel companies won’t accept them on board.

  • Redex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’s a bit more nuanced than that, she’s accused of cooperating with smugglers to stage fake rescue operations, but the suit is still ongoing and I’m not sure if it’s legit or not. From what I’ve seen she seems to be a good person so the suit is possibly bogus.

    • Colombo@kbin.socialEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      It’s a bit more nuanced

      That is not more nuanced those are plain facts. OP is plainly lying.

      She is accused and jailed for voluntarily being a part of a smuggling operation, even when she was explicitly told not to do so by the Italian government.

      Compared to completely normal rescue efforts when a boat or plane capsize, when workers are trapped in a mine, when someone is lost in the mountains, or when a bunch of nobodies are taken hostage by a criminal organisation, be it local or abroad.

      Again, this is not nuance, those are commonly known facts that OP is lying about.