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rayinertoday at 2:16 PM1 replyview on HN

Try this one: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mgkd93r4yo

What i’m describing is literally how the Danish left got back in power. In the UK you’d need someone in Labour at least as aggressive as Fredrickson: https://theconversation.com/denmarks-prime-minister-has-led-.... Immigration isn’t “left wing” or “right wing.” It’s just neoliberalism. It’s based on viewing people as fungible units of labor output.


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SideburnsOfDoomtoday at 2:24 PM

> Immigration isn’t “left wing” or “right wing.”

I do not agree. This is obviously an issue that the far right continually talk about. In racist terms.

In academic language from the linked study:

> Thus, accommodating the radical right on immigration could benefit the radical right by increasing the salience of an issue on which it has long been perceived as having a comparative advantage

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