Question Below Yanked - Presumably Because It Descended Into Bickering.

[Deskdiary]

Whatever...

Surely the following quote from the link in the report, the actual website of the people hosting the dinners, just goes to prove they are mental, doesn't it?

"Looking at yourself in the mirror and acknowledging that, as a white person in America, you are an active participant in upholding white supremacy..."

[Zacs-Master]

You definitely seemed to be against immigration as a whole on this thread, AOG
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1044010-3.html

[Mamyalynne]

You're quite right DD, going to dinner and owning your guilt is a nuts idea, much as I said on thread below.

[Zacs-Master]

And in some other of your 250 questions on the subject
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/search/?q1=Anotheoldgit+immigration

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master
/// You definitely seemed to be against immigration as a whole on this thread, AOG ///

Well the vote seems that I am not on my own:
/// Do you believe "There Are Too Many Immigrants"? ///

Yes. - 95 votes
71%
No. - 39 votes
29%

Case proven.

Haven't you got anything better to do than your continuous trolling of me?

[dannyk13]

AOG, what do you expect when you keep rising to the bait?

[Zacs-Master]

when you contradict yourself so frequently, I feel duty bound to pull you up on it. If you see that as ‘trolling’ then that’s your problem. Perhaps think about what you’re saying a little more and you won’t find me commenting quite as much.

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

Thank you for going to the trouble to once again air my views on 'UNCONTROLLED IMMIGRATION', but by doing so I think that you have shot yourself in the foot, here is a selection of my posts.

'UNCONTROLLED' Immigration Helped Trigger Brexit

'MASS' Immigration Accounts For More Than A Third Of All New Housing Demand In Britain

Has Immigration On The Scale That We Have Seen It, Been Beneficial To The Uk?
Could the UK exist without immigration?

No of course not and never has, but the right type of immigrant is needed, those who are prepared to integrate and also bring in skills that are an advantage to the UK.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//sorry the last bit was a bit delphic//

Not just Delphic, Pythonesque.

[Old_Geezer]

Unsure how this thread got on to immigration and the NHS, but ... the NHS would not be in a position to fall apart had it not shamefully opted to take vital medical staff from foreign countries, where they were needed, and forged a reliance on them for itself; but instead trained and paid/treated UK nationals to fill the roles. Since it put itself in a fix it'll take a long time to turn the situation around even if they started sufficient training of students now.

[anotheoldgit]

dannyk13
/// AOG, what do you expect when you keep rising to the bait? ///

When trolls such as Zacs-Master continues to tell blatant lies about me, I feel that I must respond as any other person would.

[Zacs-Master]

Putting aside the fact that many of your posts simply refer to immigration rather than either uncontrolled or mass immigration, I can’t put it any better than Mothman did:
‘As a country we have gained far, far more from immigration than we have lost. Advantages would be from the everyday (being able to buy a pint of milk on a Sunday, pre-Sunday opening, a decent range of food we would never have experienced otherwise) to the esoteric (appreciation of a different culture or point of view that enhances an individuals understanding). Disadvantages would be added pressure on key services and providing a situation which a certain sector of society can use to promote their own juvenile ideals. Many, many more on both sides of the argument, but this isn't really about totalling up scores is it - sometimes the sum of the parts is greater than the whole.
Mass immigration has little, if anything, to do with your perception that we can't speak our minds - this is the result of home-bred do-gooders who feel morally superior when they can be offended on behalf of someone else. Thankfully there's still no law that states that anyone has the right not to be offended, but don't let that get in the way of a Daily Mail headline or your willingness to be offended at not being able to offend.
Likewise the words you chose to quote, whilst these can be (and are) overused and the refuge of the professionally offended, they also have a place when used in the correct context. If you're saying that there were no racists, bigots etc prior to immigration I'll call you out - if you're saying it was OK to be one of these before immigration and the worlds a worse place for not being able to promote these views now, I'll call you a fool.
Could the UK exist without immigration? Of course, but good luck getting the shell-suited, WKD drinking, dole claiming, self-entitled window lickers off their sofas to empty your bins.
I wonder if this same conversation is happening on the Spanish version of Answerbank, with someone asking "Has The Influx Of British Pensioners And Criminals On The Scale That We Have Seen It, Been Beneficial To Spain? And Do I Really Need To Capitalise Every Word In The Title?" This is not just a UK problem and it's not a recent one either, sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't just be grateful that we were born in a country that so many other people aspire to live in?
And no - I'm not a bleeding heart leftie (far from it), just not driven by desperate Daily Mail / Express headlines. ‘