Refugees. What Help?

[bainbrig]

After watching a recorded episode of BBC’s harrowing Exodus series on refugees, I’m wondering if there is anything a concerned individual can do to help these poor abandoned people.

BB

[bainbrig]

Oh, so you’d trek thousands of miles, live in squalor, all for the sake of a better life for you and your family, and NOT be desperate? To employ another cliche, since that seems the level of ‘debate’ round here, “Beam me up Scottie!”

[naomi24]

bainbrig, so now you're saying they come for a better life. You're having trouble making your mind up.

[bainbrig]

What are you on about? People living in abject poverty don’t have the right (almost duty) to attempt to escape and find a better life?

Like the dreadful togo, you seem to want to live in a society utterly devoid of the best human instincts, where self interest rules, and compassion is dismissed in trendy cliches.

You can keep your world, naomi.

[Old_Geezer]

Having scorn for strawmen may not be the best way to progress a discussion.
(One has a right to want lots of things. One doesn't necessarily have a right to expect a demand to be satisfied.)
Best way to help is to aid the nearby safe country to offer the refugees, refuge, until they are able to safely return home. It can otherwise be a strain on the resources of that nearby safe country.

[naomi24]

bainbrig, //What are you on about? People living in abject poverty don’t have the right (almost duty) to attempt to escape and find a better life?//

That’s^ what I’m on about. You cite a programme that deals with stories of refugees fleeing war-torn areas – you call them abandoned people – and then you say the people attempting to come here are living in abject poverty and almost have a duty to escape to a better life - which makes them not refugees but economic migrants. We simply cannot accept the millions of people who would like to come live here for a better life and it’s unrealistic to think we can.

You know nothing whatsoever about me or my world so don’t assume you do.

[Khandro]

The solution is not a very pleasant one but it will be inevitable - unless we want to allow all of Africa to enter Europe - All borders must be blockaded and those people here, apart from the 1% of genuine political asylum seekers, should be interviewed and returned to wherever they came from.

[Boto]

"Like the dreadful togo" - just because he doesn't agree with you?

[Togo]

/Positive, friendly attitudes all make a place more welcoming, more of a decent place. //

Like Rotherham and Bradford?
Virtue signalling.......A habit of loudly and ostentatiously displaying ones caring and worthy nature whilst demonstrating the opposite. To be practiced at all times as a counter to anything that smacks of common sense or unpalatable truth. Under no circumstances are practical solutions to be explored but the denigration of anyone who does, must be vigorously denounced as wicked and uncaring. A useful tool for the inept though eager to gain the moral high ground.....usually self appointed.