Refugees and Ignorance

Human Rights

Why is it that you fear the refugee? Or why show hostility? Is it because you feel a sense of threat to your existence? Or merely that you feel the government should not waste tax-payers money on people who have fled or were forced out of their troubled-countries?

It is fucking sad to see your ability to remain complacent of the crisis that has engulfed other nations. You shake your head in disbelief? Typical of you to think that the universe evolves around your little brain. Humanity is dead. Courtesy of fascist and racists that inhabit your government and your judgmental society. Your fucking country is filled with self-righteousness and hate. Hate for everyone who is not like you. Your arrogance is your ignorance. Your apathy is your folly. You breed stigma and prejudice; oh fuck, you may as well consort with complacency and bleed refugees out of existence.

You seem offended by my words. Good. Stop reading. Go click to your facebook and dwell in your spite. There is no point that you continue reading this “angry” note. After all, you do believe that you are right and all the fucking refugees are wrong. Stop fucking yourself with the reality, you do prefer the illusion of a good life.

Refugees are human beings. They need support, they require the most basic element of humanity – they seek the compassion of others to help them about their problems. Unfortunately, you lack the wisdom and the humanity to help these disadvantaged people. They fled their government and an abusive enemy. Unfortunately for them, they come to your country, expected compassion but instead receiving hatred of the highest order. Seems that you are an agent of their fucking misery.

Do you honestly think refugees can simply pack up and return to the mayhem they once called home? Or merely to be shipped to another country like slaves doing their master’s bidding? Have you no compassion? Or you claim to have a heart, but yet it harbors resentment and jealousy.

Refugees seem to be the brunt of every society. People are quick to point their finger at a refugee, for multitude of delusional reasons from the spread of diseases to the increase of crime, and to stealing jobs from the locals. Society blames everyone, especially those who are defenseless or without an identity. Society prefers that it remain pure and unaffected with the taint of refugees. It is a fact that society ignores the problems of a refugee, and rather than offer them basic services in accordance to their rights, people merely grumble at the waste of resources in sheltering, feeding, protecting and educating refugees.

This is your world of ignorance. You are the folly of mankind. The day you embrace the discrimination and stigma of refugees, is the day that you are no better than those tyrants who have prosecuted their own people, kicking them out of their homes to try to find sanctuary in your country. Unfortunately for them, you’re as barbaric as the enemy.

Zashnain

An avid blogger, twitterer and photojournalist, Zashnain Zainal suffers from an incurable addiction to social work, helping marginalised communities since 1989. Nowadays he travels from the plantations of Malaysia to the slums of Thailand. He can be found at zashnain.com and @bedlamfury

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