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Microsoft founder Bill Gates has called on Europe to stop demonstrating generosity towards asylum seekers to avoid an overwhelming migrant influx. He also advises European states to make Africans' way to the continent much more difficult.
During an interview Germany's Welt am Sonntag, Gates, one of the richest people on the planet, warned of the grave consequences of exceeding generosity towards refugees coming to Europe, whose numbers would only rise unless something is done.
"On the one hand you want to demonstrate generosity and take in refugees, but the more generous you are, the more word gets around about this – which in turn motivates more people to leave Africa," Gates said.
While Germany has been one of the pioneers of the open door policy, it cannot "take in the huge, massive number of people who are wanting to make their way to Europe." Thus Gates advised European nations to take action in order to make it "more difficult for Africans to reach the continent via the current transit routes."
Source: https://www.rt.com/news/395356-migrants-overwhelm-europe-gates/
(Score: 3, Insightful) by acid andy on Thursday July 13 2017, @10:52AM (2 children)
I honestly can't tell if this is supposed to be sarcasm or not. jmorris certainly spouts more than his fair share of vile crap but for once the guy had a point. All news has a bias. Mainstream media live in their own echo chambers. They all distort facts by omissions and cherry picking and sometimes lies or misrepresentations of the facts that amount to lies. If you want to get any kind of approximation of the truth all you can do is combine and cross reference information from as many sources as possible. If the facts presented by a particular source make you uncomfortable just think for a minute and make sure that's not due to your own biases. Apply the scientific method.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday July 13 2017, @11:48AM (1 child)
Read their articles and [rt.com] point me to the one in the same vein [rt.com] on the BBC. You're going to be searching for a while. I make no defense whatsoever for any outlets but if you're going to make the really stupid assumption that I favor any of them including the BBC because I picked one out of a comparison I might as well put at least a representative example of what I'm talking about.
I do apply the scientific by doing my own research. Hence, I don't need to read any news besides as a jumping off point. This is also why I'm not overexposed to the point that I can't recognize REALLY obvious bullshit when I smell it. Apparently everyone that buys into RT's crap can't. Because other places not being objective means RT is on the same level of non-objective right? Or are you seeing this fear mongering anti-science bullshit that includes bible quotes on the same level as the talking heads on BBC and co.? Am I the one with the biases?
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @01:42PM
Good man. So what were Bill Gates's thoughts on the immigration issue when you interviewed him? I'd like to cross reference it with what I'll ask him in my own interview next week.