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This
photo shows a Syrian mother trying to hold her baby above the water,
after the boat they were on sank in the Mediterranean.
According to the UN, the vast majority of refugees have fled from Syria,
where an estimated 220,000 to more than 300,000 people have been killed
during its appalling and escalating war. The lack of compassion from
many westerners that have been dumbed-down by xenophobic
narratives in the mainstream media has been appalling. For once in your
life, think for yourself! These people are human beings, our brothers
and sisters who are in a perilous and desperate situation (largely
caused by imperialism) that require urgent assistance!!
Refugees don't hide their taxes in the Cayman Islands; Refugees don't
privatise the National Health Service; Refugees don't influence
government cuts to spending; And Refugees don't scrape together their
life savings, leave their loved ones behind, bribe and fight and
struggle their way onto the undercarriage of a train, or into a tiny
hidden compartment of a lorry with forty other people, watch their
friends and loved ones die or get raped, all for the express purpose of
bragging about earning £67.46 a week.
Imagine waking your
children in the morning, feeding and dressing them, pulling a little
girl’s hair into a ponytail, arguing with a little boy about which pair
of shoes he wants to wear. Now imagine, as you are doing that, you know
later today you will strap their vulnerable bodies into enveloping life
jackets and take them with you in a rubber dinghy - through waters which
have claimed many who have done the same. Think of the story you’d have
to tell to reassure them. Think of trying to make it fun. Consider the
emotional strength needed to smile at them and conceal your fear.
Try and envisage how it would feel like when that experience – your
frantic flight from war – was then diminished by a vicious, dishonest
media that crudely labelled you and your family "migrants," as if you
were a scourge on society. Imagine having little to no voice in
countering this description of you so commonly used by governments and
journalists.
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