So we've a hit-and-run retort thing going. :gentleblob:​ Sarcastic clapping and wikipedia link (deleted, reposted and again deleted too..)? Really?

@aral @EU_Commission

"Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

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You made some rather dramatic accusations against the #EuropeanUnion complete with hashtags (#racism #birthism #humanrights) and hours later I asked what *specifically* you meant by those accusations (as seen above).

Hours later yet that "open letter" of yours to #EU vanished, along with my (possibly unread - how would I know) query, but I was genuinely interested in the problems you raised about the EU border controls *so I asked again*. Once. Without reposting your original accusation, FWIW.

So I get a lesson about #sealioning.

"relentless requests..."
"often tangential or previously addressed..."

Talk about #badfaith. Maybe you're just having a bad day. In that case, hope it gets better...

(Posting this as a reply to my own toot; you seem keener on presuming and deleting than on responding. )

@aral

You deleted your somewhat provocative — or thought-provoking — "open letter" aimed at @EU_Commission without bothering to respond to genuine questions about it and that wiped out my post too... 🤨​

The questions still stand:

re: accusations of #EuropeanUnion #racism / #racialprofiling / #discrimination / #birthism #humanrights etc.

Could you provide some specifics?

#1 Are there cases where non-EU parents should *or should not* have absolute right to enter the #EU automatically? Are there any potential reasons for denying such automatic entry?

#2 What *racial* profiling of non-EU entrants is taking place on the borders?

#3 What's the definition of "birthism" here that "should end in the EU"?

re: accusations of #EuropeanUnion #racism / #racialprofiling / #discrimination / #birthism etc.

@aral @EU_Commission

Wouldn't we all like free movement of all the peoples of the world, but as things still stand there are procedures and restrictions in place — in more or less *every* territory with self-determination that exists.

Could you provide some specifics?

#1 Are there cases where non-EU parents should *or should not* be entitled to absolute right to enter the #EU automatically? Are there any potential reasons for denying such automatic entry?

#2 What *racial* profiling of non-EU entrants is taking place on the borders?

#3 What's the definition of "birthism" here that "should end in the EU"?

Dear @EU_Commission,

Non-EU citizen parents of EU citizens should have the right to enter the EU and visit their children just like EU-citizen parents of EU citizens do.

Also, it might be nice if you stopped racially profiling us EU citizens born in non-EU countries at your borders.

When do you plan on ending this birthism and two-tier citizenship?

(Not expecting a reply or for anyone there to even see this but, hey, airing it anyway because why not.)

#eu #humanRights #racism #birthism