All right, Jow Forums, I have a plan to put an end to the migrant crisis once and for all. I'm not a racist like you people, but I'm officially sick of bringing illiterate Muslims into Europe and the US to spread sharia law. As a liberal, I have to stick up for liberal principles-- and we should be allied on this front.
What we need to do is turn the progressives' language around on them.
See, progressives cannot view people as individuals. They think in terms of group identity and the "greater good." Thus, I think the angle of attack here should be this: "Accepting immigrants from Muslim countries is a form of neo-colonialism." The reasoning is as follows.
> Human flight, or the "brain drain," makes it incredibly difficult for countries to develop.
> Syria has lost thousands of trained professionals-- doctors, lawyers, etc-- all of whom have fled to Europe to use their skills elsewhere.
> After losing all of this brainpower, it could be several generations before the country re-stabilizes.
> What this amounts to is the West "poaching" the best and brightest from third-world countries, stealing their most valuable resource-- skilled workers.
> Therefore, it would be for the greater good, and kinder, for these workers to stay in their home countries and attempt to improve them, rather than leave their nations to rot and die.
Not only does this turn progressives against themselves, but it also has a nice nationalism redpill tucked away in it. If the goal of progressivism is truly to do the greatest good for the greatest number, they should start by letting the Middle East/Africa develop on its own, rather than babysitting everyone who leaves. Those people, following this logic, should return to their native countries and attempt to improve things there.
I know progressives. I'm a Californian in the Bay Area-- I know this logic will work on them. This is the way their minds work. So long as you paint this as "neo-colonialism," they'll do whatever you want.