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On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Jeff via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: Sure, but without even consulting any exact numbers, I believe there are > more refugees in Lebanon in absolute numbers, with an overall population > that must be 10 times smaller. And more in Jordan per capita. Again, why does this conversation only include relatively poor countries in the Middle East? > This is the disproportionality that I think Ken was questioning. Oh, I'm sure it was: a mighty convenient frame of reference, that. > I had thought this email list was about sharing information and analyses. > Not an argument over which capitalist government is the most evil, even if > that were a meaningful question. There's something singularly ridiculous about First Worlders pissing and moaning that a country their governments have done everything in their power to impoverish, which nevertheless absorbs more refugees than any of them, isn't doing more still. -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
