mixed_biscuits
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Some contrary thoughts to reverse-Godwin common and potentially spurious virtue-signallings; please provide counters:
- Voting to remain is racist: the EU is a Caucasian power block designed to shore up the race's privileged position in the face of increasing threats from without. Europeans are racially homogeneous and buying the odd kielbasa from Pawel down the road does not mean that you have cured yourself of your xenophobic tendencies; try the Commonwealth instead for extra points.
- Voting to remain is colonialist: the stronger European nations are stripping the weaker ones of their assets without even having to leave their armchairs; monetary backflow is scant consolation for damage to the social fabric and an acidic trickle-down effect that ends up depriving the very weakest countries of their brightest and best (England takes E.Europe's doctors, who then raid the Far East for replacements).
- Voting to remain increases the chance of a new Hitler: to prevent a power-grab by a comely demagogue, one shouldn't aggregate power, but fragment it; would Adolf have got as far as he had, had Germany been composed of twenty independent states?
- Voting to remain doesn't make you unselfish. The arguments typically given to remain in fact prompt the converse, as they are just as parochial and self-serving as those given by those who wish to jump ship. Instead of considering the benefits (or not) that would come to Europe from our continued involvement, we cite the opposite. If we ask not what we can do for Europe but only what it can do for us, then we are not truly part of the European project. Therefore, I vote that Europe kicks us out for a clear unpreparedness truly to commit, regardless of the path we choose.
- Voting to remain is racist: the EU is a Caucasian power block designed to shore up the race's privileged position in the face of increasing threats from without. Europeans are racially homogeneous and buying the odd kielbasa from Pawel down the road does not mean that you have cured yourself of your xenophobic tendencies; try the Commonwealth instead for extra points.
- Voting to remain is colonialist: the stronger European nations are stripping the weaker ones of their assets without even having to leave their armchairs; monetary backflow is scant consolation for damage to the social fabric and an acidic trickle-down effect that ends up depriving the very weakest countries of their brightest and best (England takes E.Europe's doctors, who then raid the Far East for replacements).
- Voting to remain increases the chance of a new Hitler: to prevent a power-grab by a comely demagogue, one shouldn't aggregate power, but fragment it; would Adolf have got as far as he had, had Germany been composed of twenty independent states?
- Voting to remain doesn't make you unselfish. The arguments typically given to remain in fact prompt the converse, as they are just as parochial and self-serving as those given by those who wish to jump ship. Instead of considering the benefits (or not) that would come to Europe from our continued involvement, we cite the opposite. If we ask not what we can do for Europe but only what it can do for us, then we are not truly part of the European project. Therefore, I vote that Europe kicks us out for a clear unpreparedness truly to commit, regardless of the path we choose.
