Reposting this from Qasim Rashid, esq. on Mastodon.
(I do know this is discoverable from Mastodon but heck consider it a boost).
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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People who claim that don't mean literally work with smugglers. They mean, that efforts to save refugees encourages fleeing.
That's about as logical as claiming ambulances are working with drug dealers when they try to save someone ODing.
It is illogical, not to mention callous. And yet the exaggerated rhetoric persists and whips up negative sentiment towards literal life savers from braindead segments of the far right.
They're wrong about encouraging fleeing too (as if that even needed saying) as I've pointed out elsewhere on the thread.
Yepp. But feelings don't care about facts
Your crazy if you don't think people believe this when this is what there told on the news every da