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"Shoot a Migrant"

The cartoon in question was sent to me by an "aquaintance".

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A cartoon captioned “Shoot a Migrant”,

Encouraged by the Daily Hate-mongers,

Fear and ignorance, both servant and tyrant,

A seaside “amusement” no longer,

The telescope now’s become a rifle,

Aimed at Johnny Foreigner,

An entertaining ...

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Migrantstelescoperifle

Otherness

Otherness

 

We all know they’re riddled with Otherness

And they’re bringing it over here

I don’t care if they have the same body parts

It’s their Otherness that I fear

They’ll only have to look at you

And you’ll catch their Otherness too

They’ll be lazy, scrounging, Otherness spreading

Heathens – not like me and you

 

I bet they had lives of champaign and caviar

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bigotslack of empathylittle englandmigrantsno heartracists

The better evil (revised)

 

Intimidated by political tugs
Prone to insert in one's mouth
The nose of a loaded gun
Or suspend a plastic bottle full of water
On males' reproductive organ,
Devoid of freedom of expression
Also denied  to his right and
Deplorable condition drawing attention
Shunning his God chosen land,
What is more a bright and warm country
Under the sun ,a journalist dreaming began
Fighting al...

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refugemigrationmigrantsatavismtra

Lampedusa

 

This is where they come from:

villages eaten up by sand

river beds run dry

lands of red earth stained with blood

where there are mobs, bombs, bullets,

crops that fail.

 

This is who they are:

the young, the desperate, the brave,

fathers with daughters, motherless sons,

whose sin was to be born poor

worship the wrong body

bow before the wrong...

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