u/BigBucketOfAcid

When it comes to dating, a lot of people have this notion of "average" in their heads. Their idea of average is actually NOT average, but significantly above average. The idea of average that people have in their head is somebody who is nondescript, but also somehow immaculate in the sense that they have no faults at all. That is what we think of as average.

But in actuality average is nothing like that. True average are people who do have some faults. This is also why people think that the other gender is mostly undebatable. Because in their heads they are thinking, "why is everyone so below average", (which is mathematically nonsensical).

To put it more bluntly, "average is not perfect" and can never be.

Some Gen Z women lament the fact that there aren't many men who are as left leaning as they are, but these same women are also attracted to the same high status indicators as all the generations before them: education, wealth, height, fair features and whiteness, physical attraction in general, athleticism, intellect, middle/upper class indicators, ... I could go on.

Isn't that a bit of a contradiction? On the one hand you want your man to be all for equality, but on the other hand, you want your man in particular to be above the rest, to be of higher status, and to excel.

You cannot have an equality where everyone excels.

What you really want is for your man to benefit from being in a privileged position, but to be kind to those below him. But that's not equality.

In pretty much all European countries, legal immigration from third world countries, i.e. people who are visibly foreign, far eclipses illegal immigration. There are 30 to 40 million non-EU origin residents in the EU for example.

Even in countries like Poland, you have practically zero illegal immigration, but you have lots of Indians, other south east Asians, Latin Americans and Africans.

Yet the rhetoric from the right is always about the illegals and they conflate things so much that in short order they are talking about Arabs and Islam.

I find it all extremely odd. I think the party propagandists are banking on the hope the people who are most concerned about immigrants cannot distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants. They see brown people walking down the street and they think they landed here on a dinky boat, when they probably flew here on AirIndia and are on a postgraduate study visa.

What further muddles the water are demographics that are ethnically non-European, but they are legal residents or even citizens, BUT, they are Arabs and/or Muslim. Those seem to be lumped in with the "illegal immigrants" even though they legally aren't.

Either way, I find the rhetoric is not very clear on who they are upset about, and maybe this is on purpose, to conflate different people together to make the problem seem worse than it is.

BTW, I am not saying that legal immigration isn't something that shouldn't also be debated, but so far it seems like they purposefully refuse to touch the topic, maybe because it would rob steam away from their main rhetorical argument.