Europe 'Discovers' Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric, Ignores Its Own History
The AP's concerned dispatch details increasingly 'hostile' anti-immigrant rhetoric across Europe, noting protests and the rise of far-right parties. They point to Trump calling Somali immigrants 'garbage' as an endorsement. (Hardly a new concept for the man.) What the report conveniently omits is Europe's historical role in destabilizing nations through colonial exploitation, resource extraction,
and proxy wars, which directly fuel many of the migration flows they now decry. The article highlights British politicians complaining about 'too many non-white faces' on TV, without mentioning how many of those 'non-white faces' are descendants of communities whose home countries were pillaged by empires now lamenting 'uncontrolled' immigration. It's always remarkable how a continent that carved
up the globe, extracted untold wealth, and engineered borders for centuries can feign shock when the chickens—or in this case, the descendants of the exploited—come home to roost. Perhaps if European politicians focused less on 'deporting longtime U.K. residents born abroad' and more on reparations for their historical plunder, this wouldn't 'shoot up the political agenda' with such manufactured
outrage. Funny how AP frames this as a recent 'intensification' rather than a cyclical symptom of unaddressed historical grievances.