Demographic Dangers & Declining Birth Rates, Part Three: Demonising Migrants & Refugees.

Much of the rhetoric that demonises refugees & migrants originates in Russia. But some of the mud they are slinging is sticking, & all across Europe & the United States those fleeing war, chaos, poverty & political uncertainty are being demonised for their race, religion or just their precarious, unknown futures.

Peter Winn-Brown
26 min readApr 22, 2023
Yasmin Nasri hugs her daughter before walking her to school in Denmark. She fears deportation & separation from her husband & children (Lorenzo Tugnoli). From WaPo.

Peddling the fantasy…whatever the flavour, whoever the victim, racism is racism no matter how you present it! And migrants are first amongst victims…

Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks for consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural ‘fear of difference. The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.

Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism, 1995.

“Antisemitism (not merely the hatred of Jews), imperialism (not merely conquest), totalitarianism (not merely dictatorship) — one after the other, one more brutally than the other, have…

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Peter Winn-Brown
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