Jokodo
Veteran Member
So what important fact that would have made the story more nuanced did the Daily Mail leave out in this case, that would have muddied the moral outrage over France deliberately helping its illegal immigrants become England's illegal immigrants? Has England been helping its illegal immigrants illegally enter France?
Why are you telling me? I don't read the Daily Mail. This isn't an argument about the merits of reading the Daily Mail. This is an argument about the merits of deliberately blinding oneself to facts whenever the route those facts took on their way to you ever passed through the Daily Mail. Are you one of those folks who think the medical community should just flush down the toilet everything mankind learned from the unethical medical experiments conducted in the 1940s by doctors committing war crimes against prisoners from the countries Imperial Japan had conquered?The Daily Mail is pure poison. You're not going to get enlightened by reading it. It'll only cloud your judgement.
You don't appear to be doing the math correctly. In 140 years most of this year's boat people will be dead and not contributing to a measly one percent of its population. So you must be also counting the children and great^N grandchildren of boat people. In that case, the number will come out the way you say only if you assume boat people will have the same number of descendants as natives. I.e., you don't appear to be doing the math correctly.In other words, you can't point out any errors!
Well, presenting 2000 people over the course of as if it were a large number is misleading even if factually correct.
The United Kingdom has just shy of 67 million inhabitants. At a rate of 2000 per five months, it'll take a full 140 years before boat people make up a measly one percent of its population.
The math is correct, the assumption of its relevance may be wrong.
Talking of assumptions, in 140 years, the descendants of this year's boat people will be distinguished from the descendants of this year's long-term residents by surname only. How many descendants who has in the next 20-40 years (1-1.5 generation) is pretty much irrelevant on that scale too.