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‘ the most vulnerable people on earth.’

Why do writers need feel the need to write this sort of hyperbole? To make themselves feel virtuous? It is a sad sham. Of course, once on the sea such migrants are vulnerable, but they themselves determine to set out, especially the economic migrants. There are millions of people living in gruesome conditions all over the world with no choice but to endure them. Indentured labour with their children held ransom for their work; sex workers trafficked, beaten and raped; women, children and old people left behind in the villages that young men abandon. Please think more about your desperate virtue signalling, we are all able to empathise without the nonsensical exaggeration.

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Think of all the white working class women they will inevitably rape. Ian diesnt see them as vulnerable. He puts their needs beneath asylum seekers in his hierarchy of who he sees as human

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