Were you offended?

Yes, it is a generalisation but by various measures (and data; see Max Roser's stuff) it is true.

Things are improving world-wide, even in the poorest countries.

thatbags I can't help feeling that this comment is a wee bit Pollyanna. Some things are improving in some of the poorest countries, but everything is actually getting worse in some others. Sudan springs to mind, for example.

The "warm and fuzzy" bit.

<tries, unsuccessfully, to stop grinning>

lily

He/she has posted on at least one other thread over the weekend.

I haven't seen any other posts from SineDie. I hope the straight-for-the-jugular responses from the warm and fuzzy regulars haven't driven her (or him) away!

but what a lack of "cleverness" you showed in not being born into one of the richest families in that countries.

But we don't know that she/he wasn't!

Just seen that you may have been being sarcastic. I would apologise - well I do if you were - but people have said such things in all seriousness and I am not sure how we are supposed to tell.

They won't all leave. Some will sweat it out and in most cases things will improve slowly but surely. Things are improving world-wide, even in the poorest countries.

There problem is that they weren't lucky enough SineDie. "Clever" would make you believe that you had some influence over it. You are lucky indeed to have been born in a rich country but what a lack of "cleverness" you showed in not being born into one of the richest families in that countries.

Really some people do talk nonsense although perhaps I should remember that we are equally lucky or unlucky to be able to talk good sense and not blame those who do come out with claptrap.

Do you not see the illogicality, at the very least, of lumping all residents of one country together as if they all share the same view?

Precisely my point, FarNorth!

I assumed SineDie was being facetious.

The sad thing is that these are young, energetic, enterprising people who would be an asset to the countries they are escaping from, if only the conditions were better there.
Who will change things for the better when they have all left?

rosequartz wrote : "What I do find is offensive is a German man calling the British racist in the light of present-day racist and anti-Muslim rallies in that country."

Do you not see the illogicality, at the very least, of lumping all residents of one country together as if they all share the same view?

I think Sine Die was using sarcasm Nigglynellie.

Your view of hypocrisy seems to vary from mine too ....

I'm fascinated POGS. How do you see hypocrisy?

Heavens SineDie, You'll get crucified for saying that!!

Their problem is that they weren't clever enough to be born in a rich country.

We have to budge up and take them. It will be fine. They could be our saving grace. They are young.

Yes, of course we care. But the problem seems insurmountable.

Anyone with a son of that age cares.

Of course we care! (About the welfare of the migrants. Not about DC's use of words)

Or caring, bags?

Oh, I see that one died as a result of getting crushed when trying to get onto a lorry. Yes, desperate. Or foolhardy. Possibly both. No way of knowing really.

thatbags This is what a Guardian report said in July, following a recent death:

"A total of nine migrants have died near the Channel tunnel terminal since June. Two other Sudanese migrants, both in their 30s, were recovering in hospital after being struck by high-speed trains on Monday."

Were the nine migrants who have died since June residents of the camp they call The Jungle?