Good job steering away from every argument I proved you wrong in.
In a overpopulated country like the Netherlands, it's pretty obvious that we will have to restrict immigration somewhat. It's not xenophobia or racism - no one cared in the 70s when there was plenty of work and space for immigrants. When it's costing us billions a year, yeah, we'll have to curb legal immigration somewhat. You already said it yourself, unemployment is high among immigrants and we're trying to solve our current issues without resorting to segregation. America solves it by letting their underpriviliged immigrants live under shitty circumstances in ghettos and the like. We don't discriminate between native Dutchmen and immigrants so everyone has a right to social benefits and gets a chance to live a decent life, not in poverty. That costs money and we can't keep providing it if immigrants keep streaming in.
People say marriage is between man and woman because they're homophobic bible-thumping morons. You can keep repeating that it's very much a legal issue, but if no one was forcing their discriminatory definition on others it wouldn't be an issue at all. It's not like non-homophobic citizens care whether gays get the right to marry...
esquire said:How exactly does that prove that United States isn't better than the Netherlands? You rationalise it any way you want and the result is still the same.
You are bitter. You can't quantify any of your arguments. Legalisation of illicit activities like prostitution and drug use are not better or worse; they just are. It is ironic that you think I'm not very educated on the situation in the Netherlands when I would say the same thing of you regarding your knowledge of the United States. I actually have lived in the Netherlands (Amsterdam), I know very much what it is like there and you have serious problems integrating immigrants into Dutch society. Unemployment is especially high among immigrants and the Netherlands have some of the most stringent immigration laws in Europe due to intense Xenophobia and Racism - I'm not really sure what you are trying to prove by saying you accept a lot of immigrants when the United States accepts a lot more immigrants from more countries than any other country in the world (some of them Dutch) and unlike you we aren't trying to curb legal immigration and we're actually trying to resolve the issue of illegal immigration amicably and fairly.
In a overpopulated country like the Netherlands, it's pretty obvious that we will have to restrict immigration somewhat. It's not xenophobia or racism - no one cared in the 70s when there was plenty of work and space for immigrants. When it's costing us billions a year, yeah, we'll have to curb legal immigration somewhat. You already said it yourself, unemployment is high among immigrants and we're trying to solve our current issues without resorting to segregation. America solves it by letting their underpriviliged immigrants live under shitty circumstances in ghettos and the like. We don't discriminate between native Dutchmen and immigrants so everyone has a right to social benefits and gets a chance to live a decent life, not in poverty. That costs money and we can't keep providing it if immigrants keep streaming in.
Gay marriage is very much a legal issue about how you legally define marriage as well as state rights but I wouldn't expect you to understand that if you think homophobia and bigotry are the reasons why gay marriage isn't legal in every state. Read up on your legalese before you attempt to understand this issue.
People say marriage is between man and woman because they're homophobic bible-thumping morons. You can keep repeating that it's very much a legal issue, but if no one was forcing their discriminatory definition on others it wouldn't be an issue at all. It's not like non-homophobic citizens care whether gays get the right to marry...