Stories and News No. 1146 Migrants do not exist. The word does. Migrants , only the latter, usually undeserving the article, let alone respect and empathy for those who just want a better life. Because this is empathy, ladies and gentlemen, in the most trivial of meanings. The ability to put yourself in the other's shoes, being able to understand that, in this accursed case, those people are desperately looking for what we all want. Maybe this is the main problem. Probably, this widespread mixture of foolishness and hatred does not arise only from ignorance and perhaps we all understand more than it seems. Nonetheless, I repeat, migrants do not exist, they have never did for most of the inhabitants of this confused and divided world, except in the social vocabulary or inside a frustrated outburst at the end of a disappointing week. Yes, this is what I firmly believe: we do nothing but play with words. So here are the migrants of the modern populist leaders. Here are...
by Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher