It’s not necessarily social media. That comment constantly made disassociates actual experiences that people have in real life from the problem.
Is it to do with social media that Spanish citizens of Majorca and Tenerife have protested against tourism? Or is it that they’re sick of experiencing what their towns and neighbourhoods within them become in high tourism seasons?
Similarly, do you not think that people who live in these immigrant dumping zones across most European cities (because that’s what they are, the only country I know of with any real plan not to do this is Denmark where they have laws called Parallel Society Legislation where they look at areas with 50%+ immigrant numbers and keep an eye on crime, unemployment etc.and put them on ‘tough ghetto’ lists and disperse people from the area to integrate them into society better) who see their neighbourhoods change for the worse, meaning people move out of their neighbourhoods which segregates society (not a good thing) as more immigrants move into those areas with the gaps left by natives who move out… plus people seeing that a higher population (which is pretty much solely to do with mass immigration) = more electricity demand, more water demand, more housing demand, more waste, more imports, more traffic, more congested cities, more pollution, more demand on public services, more demand on public transport, more demand on our farmland, more crime, more division, more hate, just a general trend towards a much worse country… is to do with peoples’ experiences which other people simply empathise with?
People had issues with immigration for completely normal reasons before social media ever existed.
It’s not social media’s fault that decades of successive moderate governments have failed to listen to its citizens who say they don’t want mass immigration. People - and that includes some left wing (real socialists do not believe in mass immigration, nor did they believe in the EU either by the way), some centrist, some centre right people with moderate and fair views (and does not necessarily mean far right like everyone likes to point the finger about) - then search for a party who is listening to them. I personally looked at the centre left Social Democratic Party at the last GE and agreed most with their immigration ideas coupled with their other ideals (although never took the plunge to vote for them, I didn’t end up voting)… unfortunately they are a very small party don’t get much traction, and unfortunately many others in search for a party that is listening to them fall for the emotive language that far right parties (who I do not want in power because aosrt from their immigration stance, I agree with pretty much nothing else they have in their locker) use.
But if all the previous governments around Europe had listened to their citizens on not wanting mass immigration, people wouldn’t need to be looking to far right parties.
All these political parties across Europe have been bothered about is how mass immigration lines their backers’ pockets and they have never given a shit about what normal people in society want or feel about it.
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