Migrants and Refugees: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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  • Millions of migrants seeking asylum in Europe face hostility, racism, and red tape. John Oliver does one admittedly tiny thing for one of them.
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  • @MrBawa480
    @MrBawa480 9 ปีที่แล้ว +731

    I love how we (Slovakians) are so hostile towards refugees, even tough not so long ago we were the ones immigrating into western europe because of the political situation during the cold war.

    • @kozagong
      @kozagong 9 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      +Viktor Kovacs I love how you don't see the point.

    • @lisamortini8567
      @lisamortini8567 9 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      +kozagong You don't get sarcasm, do you?

    • @kozagong
      @kozagong 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I do.

    • @460vsmithwesson3
      @460vsmithwesson3 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Viktor Kovacs Also worth to mention that the majority of Slovaks migrates to the Czech Republic. And since the language is essentially the same they have little difficulty adapting to the accepting country.

    • @The36th
      @The36th 9 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      +Ewa Piracka
      Głupia kłamliwa idiotko... Na przykładzie Holandii Polacy stanowią ok. 4% ludzi którzy pobierają zasiłki. Islamiści to chyba 50%+... Jest jakiś powód czemu obrażasz własny naród?
      You stupid lying idiot... In Netherlands Polish immigrants are only ~4% of all pople who take allowances from social care. Muslism are ~50%+ of all of them. Is there any particular reason why do You offend your own people with those lies...?

  • @Yikesenal
    @Yikesenal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3087

    Nujeen's done loads since this - shes in her 20s now and is a united nations advocate for refugees!! She even has a TED talk and multiple books. Amazing woman.

    • @jamesbradley3667
      @jamesbradley3667 4 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      2020 actually making me smile. Thank you for telling us that :)

    • @Joyylin
      @Joyylin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      th-cam.com/video/R3r4gnSouqQ/w-d-xo.html

    • @thatoneguy478
      @thatoneguy478 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Thanks for giving the update. I somehow missed this one when it aired and just now came across it and was about to see if she had actually seen this clip when I saw your comment.

    • @sctrgs3207
      @sctrgs3207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@thatoneguy478 same.

    • @Neoyoshi-FFXIV
      @Neoyoshi-FFXIV 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      It warms my heart to read that Nujeen is doing well, i hope with whats going on right now in the world that it hasn't stopped her from being awesome.

  • @khm8910
    @khm8910 6 ปีที่แล้ว +590

    If anyone wants an update on Nujeen Mustafa (the girl in the wheelchair), she successfully immigrated to Germany 3-4 years ago and is currently attending school.

  • @TheAmbientUniverse
    @TheAmbientUniverse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2609

    How can someone in a wheelchair who is being put through so much shit on both sides be so positive and cheerful? She's an actual role model.

    • @amineelyoussoufi4371
      @amineelyoussoufi4371 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      I cannot look at her without crying ...

    • @bluemoon9530
      @bluemoon9530 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      She truly is a beautiful person

    • @amberpage7936
      @amberpage7936 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      She deserves such a better life than we’re giving her!

    • @loonloonlikemoonmoon1577
      @loonloonlikemoonmoon1577 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      She's a modern day Cinderella, going through all that and still managing to not only smile, but make others smile. Bless her.

    • @krissmitchell8513
      @krissmitchell8513 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Notice how great her teeth is? Odd.

  • @OranIsGone
    @OranIsGone 9 ปีที่แล้ว +935

    Aww, that's sweet John. you're actually the voice of reason and kindness in all of this.
    **scrolls down to the comments**
    And my faith in humanity is lost yet again.

    • @SugaryCoyote
      @SugaryCoyote 9 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      +TitanicNeoTyphlosion "Facts are evil. People who disagree with my lies are evil."

    • @robertkrause7357
      @robertkrause7357 9 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      +TitanicNeoTyphlosion His entire "argumet" is built around womanish appeals to emotions. Fuck him, and fuck you too.

    • @OranIsGone
      @OranIsGone 9 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      ***** Most of these people are innocent humans trying to find refuge. Yes, some may have bad intentions, but so do people of all races, religions and backgrounds. Are there things we can do to stop these horrible things from happening? Probably. Does that mean we should treat every person like that as a criminal, forcing innocent people out of the country or physically assaulting them, simply for the actions of the minority? No. Absolutely not.
      Maybe I am naive in saying these people should be trusted. But I say it's better than the alternative. An alternative that breeds hatred and only leads to more hatred.
      Stop wasting your energy trying to stop innocent people from trying to live their lives, and put your anger towards stopping the people solely responsible.

    • @OranIsGone
      @OranIsGone 9 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Robert Krause I'd like to know what's so wrong about treating innocent people like human beings.
      But then again, what am I to expect from a person using a nazi symbol as a profile picture.

    • @Oujouj426
      @Oujouj426 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +TitanicNeoTyphlosion Don't bother. Germany is even having a flame up of legit neo-Nazis due to this. This world isn't a cruel place by chance, humans made it that way. Human compassion is such a rare thing, glad you managed to grow up believing in the good of people, as cheesy as that may sound.

  • @Lurdiak
    @Lurdiak 9 ปีที่แล้ว +738

    "Yeah well, my racism is justified" - most of the comments

    • @tommylong5115
      @tommylong5115 9 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      +Lurdiak Islam is not a race.

    • @abdulmasaiev9024
      @abdulmasaiev9024 9 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      +tommy Long Neither is judaism.
      Interesting implication you're making there.

    • @Eolath
      @Eolath 9 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      +Lurdiak
      "Everyone who disagrees with me is racist'' - You.

    • @thuggish2901
      @thuggish2901 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Lurdiak it's common sense

    • @tommylong5115
      @tommylong5115 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Abdul Masaiev Nope Judaism is not a race, neither is Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism or Atheism. What exactly is it that i'm implying besides the fact that words have meanings?

  • @gillianespinoza3652
    @gillianespinoza3652 5 ปีที่แล้ว +860

    John Oliver, that was the sweetest thing you and your team did for that young girl. Your kindness hasn't gone unnoticed.

    • @sylviahaik6303
      @sylviahaik6303 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Thank you John Oliver, you are an angel. If only we had more like you, this world would be a happier place. Bless you, John.

    • @a.d.1563
      @a.d.1563 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      He is a true human :)

    • @goreil2489
      @goreil2489 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Totally agree

    • @shot-gi6mr
      @shot-gi6mr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@a.d.1563 Since when is being a "true human" a compliment?

    • @dcamron46
      @dcamron46 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Idk if it were me id probably take the actors salaries instead, but that wouldn't be entertaining at all

  • @timkinney8719
    @timkinney8719 4 ปีที่แล้ว +245

    It's really amazing how much *actual* good John and the people involved in LWT do with their resources. This episode and the one where John buys and forgives 15 million dollars worth of medical debt are my favorites. A little bit of *real* generosity, even in the name of comedy, goes a long way.

    • @paulbaumler9084
      @paulbaumler9084 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hi, i think i haven't seen that episode yet, but i would really like to. Could you tell me what the episode is called?

    • @rebekah5052
      @rebekah5052 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@paulbaumler9084 I think it's the debt buyers episode iirc

    • @adamherzenberg9162
      @adamherzenberg9162 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@paulbaumler9084 th-cam.com/video/hxUAntt1z2c/w-d-xo.html

    • @paulbaumler9084
      @paulbaumler9084 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@adamherzenberg9162 thanks a lot

    • @Vafini
      @Vafini ปีที่แล้ว +2

      LWT is a national treasury

  • @Ikine557
    @Ikine557 9 ปีที่แล้ว +563

    They aren't migrants. They are REFUGEES. It's an important difference, European countries have legal obligations to take in a certain number of refugees.

    • @balinlordofmoria3264
      @balinlordofmoria3264 9 ปีที่แล้ว +203

      +Ikine Bullshit!! If you come trough several safe countries to get to a rich one you are migrant.

    • @WOND3RK
      @WOND3RK 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      +Balin LordofMoria Bullshit. That is simply not the definition of a migrant and considering the awful situation in the neighbour countries it's not surprising people want to get to other countries...

    • @MegaphoneGaming
      @MegaphoneGaming 9 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      +Ikine The majority are migrants. 2/3 of the people coming into Germany aren't even Syrian. And I'm not even talking about the people that have fake syrian passports that you can buy for 750 dollars.

    • @anticosmic8249
      @anticosmic8249 9 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      +Ikine
      I guess you're not aware that only 20% of them are Syrian? And that these "refugees" refuse to go to any country other than Germany because they don't cater enough to them? Or that 75% of them are young males? Stop listening to propaganda.

    • @Ikine557
      @Ikine557 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Who said anything about them being Syrian? Or male? All I'm saying is that they are legally classed as refugees. And Syria is hardly the only country that persecutes and kills its citizens.

  • @JakobRuf
    @JakobRuf 9 ปีที่แล้ว +687

    "I'm not a heartless, racist, children-kicking camerawoman." - Well she's right, she's a heartless, racist, children-kicking ex-camerawoman

    • @hyperlogos
      @hyperlogos 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Jakob Ruf Saddest thing I've seen all year

    • @alexddcc
      @alexddcc 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ahahaha nice one

    • @pkerch00b1
      @pkerch00b1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Jakob Ruf good luck finding a new job, bitch. have a taste of a uncertain future

    • @pkerch00b1
      @pkerch00b1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Rene C Ooh first he was al nusra now he's al quada..... next he's a nazi, yeah not believing it one bit

    • @poetryaddict1
      @poetryaddict1 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol

  • @daddywarbucks81
    @daddywarbucks81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +493

    The segment at the end might literally be the sweetest thing I've ever seen. I am actually crying right now.

    • @jordanlewis4983
      @jordanlewis4983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      The moment he looked straight into the camera and called her by name makes me teary eyed every single time. Also makes me smile really big

    • @amalhallak9908
      @amalhallak9908 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I’m a Syrian refugee and I am crying out of joy for Najeen.

    • @DorvellTStewart
      @DorvellTStewart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Agreed! I wonder if Najeen ever saw it?

    • @samueld92
      @samueld92 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@DorvellTStewart asking the real questions here.

    • @JuaGoo
      @JuaGoo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This made me cry too

  • @StarShipGray
    @StarShipGray 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    “No one is saying this is easy, but the fact it’s so hard is not a reason to do less - it’s a reason to do more.”
    You sounded like a Starfleet Captain right there, John. 🖖🏻

  • @Eccentrick218
    @Eccentrick218 8 ปีที่แล้ว +804

    Dear John Oliver,
    I am the child of two immigrants and I have many friends and family whom are not living here legally. I liked this segment very much, but I'd also like to point out the things I _didn't_ like from this message.
    My biggest problem is that you presented this issue largely using emotional appeal. The people whom are against immigration are people who are not concerned about the moral connotations of accepting or denying refugees or immigrants. To them, allowing immigrants enter their country is neither just nor unjust. So when you say "we have to do the right thing, we have to help war refugees," they often times don't see it as helping people in need, they see it more as economic drains on their economy.
    Most of my family are staunch liberals, but the thing I hate most about liberals is that they _refuse_ to present statistical data about immigration. They rely solely on emotional appeal to "help" immigrants, but the people whom need to be convinced, conservatives, look at immigration as an economic issue, not a moral one.
    So please, John Oliver, when you talk about immigrants and refugees, don't speak about how much we're helping people, *talk about how immigrants can help the hosting nation.* The people whom are against immigration can be swayed to help them, IF they are convinced that immigration is a benefit to their countries.
    Please use more statistics and studies in your upcoming presentations about immigration. Immigrants often times have lower crime rates and create jobs when they can open up businesses. They can pay taxes when given the opportunity. Please rely more on statistical data and logical appeal than emotional appeal.
    Thanks,
    - An immigrant born American

    • @jacobsmith9781
      @jacobsmith9781 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      +Axle Onex He's just a comedian

    • @aros0018
      @aros0018 8 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      +Axle Onex I liked this comment. It makes sense and you are making a legitimate point about using facts over emotional manipulation/appeal. I don't think the Last Week Tonight people read the comments on TH-cam, but I'm sure they would agree with you if they saw this.

    • @TedGoranson69
      @TedGoranson69 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Jacob Smith So is Rush Limbaugh. :^)

    • @SmashBrosBrawl
      @SmashBrosBrawl 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      +Axle Onex
      Yup, even someone who is extremely conservative is okay with immigration, As long as it's done legally and in a sane and controlled fashion.
      Many of Europeans welfare systems are getting drained.
      Developed western worlds can not bring every 3rd worlder in and turn them into middle class citizens!
      Infinite wants vs Finite resources.

    • @SmashBrosBrawl
      @SmashBrosBrawl 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      +Benedikt Stolz
      When there is a huge housing shortage perhaps???
      When the countries crime rates SKY ROCKET as a result of massive influx of 3rd worlders. Perhaps when Sweden overtakes S.Africa as the rape capital of the developed world???
      The amount of 14 year old girls gang raped in Europe is DISGUSTING. Not to mention the UK rape scandal where 1400 kids were raped.
      And i LOL at your second point, Tell that to Japan. More and more of these "service economy" jobs are becoming automated. Japan has robot waiters for fucks sakes. Artificial Intelligence is progressing at a fairly well paced as well.
      The only reason they want more immigrants is because there governments view it as a way to cover the hole in their Social Security programs down the line.

  • @honeydew1
    @honeydew1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +947

    these dislikers need some empathy. imagine your country going through a war like syria's. you wouldn't stay.
    also that ending is so perfect :')

    • @holdinmcgroin8639
      @holdinmcgroin8639 9 ปีที่แล้ว +165

      +vanter
      My grandparents staid in their country when it was being firebombed by the RAF. Besides, most of these people aren't Syrians, and they aren't 'refugees', because they already had safety in Turkey.

    • @gemini7Sky
      @gemini7Sky 9 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      +vanter you have no idea how these people really behave here, it's scary dude

    • @gerhardpapenburg7874
      @gerhardpapenburg7874 9 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      +Holdin McGroin
      My Latvian grandmother and her family did, even though her mother was russian herself. They had to listen to the same bullshit you are stating Holdin. "Why didn't you stay?!"
      Well. Maybe they weren't so eager about beeing raped, burned or killed any other fashion.
      Also Vanter's question is actually a little different than you percieved.
      I'll rephrase it, so you understand it too:
      Who will you serve:
      The Assad Family, that kills your people since 1971?
      The radical muslim factions? (Similar ideals like Al Qaida. Just that you have an idea)
      Or Isis itself?
      Pick one. And tell me how this will help you country.

    • @holdinmcgroin8639
      @holdinmcgroin8639 9 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Gerhard Papenburg
      Assad killing since 1971? Or Islam, killing since 860?
      An Arab sociologist once said, "If given the choice between religious and secularists, the Muslim will vote for the religious and flee to the secularist". Which is true. Their disease is Islam, and until they shed it, they will carry its stench wherever they go. There's a reason Europe was rebuilt in a decade after being bombed to oblivion, while the Middle-East has been a shithole for seemingly eternity.

    • @did4h2k
      @did4h2k 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      +Holdin McGroin dude, you really wanna compare IS with the 20 or so figures RAF? yeah, right.... nur weils hinkt ists noch lang kein vergleich.... besides, since when is safety enough? imagine yourself in one of those mass camps along the syrian border, where technically you are safe, yet still lack of everything.. would you stay or try your luck? or imagine yourself to be some somali fisherman who thanks to captain iglo cant catch enough fish to feed his family - would you go if you could? and if you couldnt? what then? go pirate, like some did, probably still do, but get nomore media attention? some of these people can leave the misery they live in (sometimes caused by then alone, sometimes cause by "us" (western world) and most of them caused by both) and we should give them their chance! put yourself in their situation and think of how you want to be treated! grandparents...RAF...the timescale tells youre a kid, around 15 i guess... think for yourself, dont just say, what other people say!

  • @nos5915
    @nos5915 2 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    as a white migrant, i have never faced any kind of mistreatment for my immigration status. this isn't an "anti-immigration" thing, it's a racism thing.

    • @TA-by9wv
      @TA-by9wv ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Does your group disproportionately commit crime, use public assistance higher than the native population, amd demand that the host nation change and accomodate you?

    • @nos5915
      @nos5915 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TA-by9wv yes. also you are a horrible human being.

    • @jkbakldbwakndaw98y781gsh
      @jkbakldbwakndaw98y781gsh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      no because his group is probably financially privileged, crime is most likely occur by people of the lower income it's a class thing rather than race, what a dumb point used by people who lack critical thinking @@TA-by9wv

    • @Ulthek
      @Ulthek 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@TA-by9wv Let me ask you this, if you and your countrymen were forced out of their homes and fled to an unfamiliar country as a result, don't you think you and your fellows would need accommodation? If your 'native population' would require more public assistance than those refugees, I'd be truly worried.
      Those natives likely speak the language, went to local schools and speak the language of whatever country you are in, all while not being displaced or risking their lives to escape a war. And while I can't speak for your country specifically, I can tell you that often it is not a case of disproportionally criminal groups of people, it's a case of disproportionally selective reporting of said crimes. We will save the topic fear of change for another day

    • @TA-by9wv
      @TA-by9wv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Ulthek Let me ask you this, what percentage of the rape and murder stats are foreign born "refugees" and what is their percentage of the population? In Britain, France, Sweden, Spain, Italy, etc. Do you have any actual idea?

  • @natedavies954
    @natedavies954 5 ปีที่แล้ว +607

    That Days of Our Lives clip that they created was perfect. I can only imagine how insanely happy that must have made that amazing young woman (19 / 20 years old now!)

  • @Efreeti
    @Efreeti 9 ปีที่แล้ว +610

    That fucking camerawoman. I had to pause the video to facepalm, and say out loud "What the fuck.. is wrong with humans"

    • @Efreeti
      @Efreeti 9 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      founoe Fuck off.

    • @oreos888
      @oreos888 9 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      +founoe The man she tripped was a father trying to find a safe place for his child and himself, If that is what a terrorist is to you than frankly I'd be rather happy to buy you a dictionary for Christmas.

    • @saketiswara
      @saketiswara 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I was just simply surprised that ppl actually fucking do stupid shit like that

    • @MahatmaAgrobiznes
      @MahatmaAgrobiznes 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Thundersub Yeah because on that film you can clearly see who that man is.

    • @MahatmaAgrobiznes
      @MahatmaAgrobiznes 9 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      ***** Even if that was true (you know you can make a false account, don't you), do you think that she knew this when she tripped him? You believe that she was just standing there peacefully and suddenly noticed that a man running nearby is an ISIS supporter who she knew from facebook? And by the way, was the child on his arms also an ISIS supporter? And the child she kicked later on, that was a terrorist too, right? Or maybe it's way more probable that she's just an evil woman? Which she is, for kicking a kid and risking the health of another, even if this one person was an ISIS supporter. Definetly not a hero.

  • @arholderik
    @arholderik 9 ปีที่แล้ว +841

    As a hungarian I can personally tell you that the responses of all the xenophobic, racist people in this country are just shameful. :(

    • @woodycoat
      @woodycoat 9 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      +Viking Arhold its' not racist...religion isn't even a race. It's anti a culture that has a huge problem with misogyny, homophobia, anti-semitism, etc. What's shameful is that you're supporting these people coming in to destroy western culture.

    • @brucecampbell6578
      @brucecampbell6578 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      +Viking Arhold You are the second Hungarian with a heart I have come across. Just to assure you that you are not alone. Labeling and libeling others rather than offering sincerity or help especially those who are in desperate straights is dishonor. May the honorable be heard. God bless you my brother from the USA the source of a good deal of mischief.

    • @arholderik
      @arholderik 9 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      +Woodycoat Remember, these are refugees, not migrants. They're not here to invade any country, they are seeking asylum. They are in need of help. If they hadn't left their country, they'd probably be dead. It's our moral and legal obligation to help these people...not hate them...I mean, why would you do that? They are just like you and me. Human. Religion doesn't really matter. (btw. 10-12% of syria's population was christian :) )

    • @woodycoat
      @woodycoat 9 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      No they are invaders predominantly younger men. They were not refugees after leaving the first safe harbor of Turkey. They are certainly not like me. I wouldn't stone someone for being gay, I wouldn't intimidate and attack people for being Jewish, I do not beat women. It never ceases to amaze me the naivety of people supporting hundreds of thousands of people into Western culture who do not want to assimilate.

    • @Ufomongo1
      @Ufomongo1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      +Bruce Campbell You do realize that according to Intel Services about 22% of the so called refugees would kill you for you blessing them under the christian god?

  • @astrowolvez
    @astrowolvez 5 ปีที่แล้ว +926

    I wonder how that girl is. I really hope she's okay.

    • @carlsiemann4228
      @carlsiemann4228 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      th-cam.com/video/Y_Go10BibQ4/w-d-xo.html

    • @steven03048
      @steven03048 4 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      She was granted asylum by Germany in late 2016

    • @phyllisneal8687
      @phyllisneal8687 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Trump kicked her wheelchair out from under her❗

    • @LnLwLDD
      @LnLwLDD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@phyllisneal8687 to be honest he kicked her in a pool, sink or swim baby! It's a witch hunt! Read the transcripts!!! Trump 2020

    • @phyllisneal8687
      @phyllisneal8687 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@LnLwLDD 😂😂😂

  • @offplanet740
    @offplanet740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    After the Ukrainian refugee crisis, in which Europe is accepting millions upon millions of refugees, it’s really hard not to compare it to this refugee crisis. The comparison in how they were represented and treated makes me feel so horrible. It really deserves some discussion.

    • @jestinbinu8631
      @jestinbinu8631 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ukrainians dont bomb people

    • @NezumiEfeu
      @NezumiEfeu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Ukrainian refugees are actual refugees fleeing a war.
      Not the "refugees" storming central europe instead of their neigbhouring countires because they get more social benefits there. Those were econamic refugees.
      Just look at the footage at 5:54 99% were men, not woman and children
      Ukrainian refugees are mostly woman and children! Those are the real refugees.
      I am not saying that men shouldn´t flee, but it is and was suspicious that mostly men between 15 and 30 came and said that they were younger to get more benefits. They should have been those that should have stayed and defended their land. And now we have a subculture in europe were muslims can´t handle our western values so they fight our system to be like the one they were fleeing.
      Edit: Grammar

    • @kingoliever1
      @kingoliever1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      It´s really simple, when they cross over 10 countries including half of Europe and an ocean it kinda becomes obvious they are migrating into the west European welfare states and not fleeing war. Things are rather clear when looking at a map.

    • @radim279
      @radim279 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@kingoliever1 Alright. I suppose we should also berate Ukrainian refugees for migrating into actual prosperous, liberal and safe states, rather than, say, Kenya or Thailand?

    • @kingoliever1
      @kingoliever1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@radim279 No they mostly are gone to Poland 1,2 Million and other east European countries whit a 800.000 gone to Germany but just 100.000 further to France which is not even half of how many gone to the Czech Republic while also another difference is out of Ukraine come women and children not young men. Besides the fact a lot of the 2016 migrants thrown away there papers to claim they are 17 year old Syrians.
      This are simply different situations, 2016 the real refuges got buried in a flood of fake refuges that where really migrants.

  • @StavrosSachtouris
    @StavrosSachtouris 9 ปีที่แล้ว +588

    Nice John Oliver, but you forgot that:
    1. They are not migrants, they are refuges. They were unwillingly displaced from their country.
    2. Iran has also accepted a huge number of Syrian refuges (I'm not Iranian btw, I just say this because it's true)
    3. Germany is not "the only country being nice to refuges", they are just happy to accept a few thousand middle-class families with cheap, educated workers. The economy of countries with low unemployment, like Germany, can benefit greatly from this crisis.

    • @The36th
      @The36th 9 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      +Stavros Sachtouris
      1. Only ~15% of them are from war torn Syria. Rest of them are from poor Africa/Asian countires but strangely They got few thousands of euro to pay albanian/russian/turkish mafia to transport them to Europe and prepare plans from rest of thier journeys...
      2. But somehow Saudi Arabia doesn't want hem even when They're from the same culture...
      3. Give me some real statistics of thier willingness to work...

    • @TheBadFred
      @TheBadFred 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Stavros Sachtouris 3. Who else? Maybe Finland(but not so friendly) or Sweden. BTW not so happy anymore, because there are limits.

    • @persgodiva
      @persgodiva 9 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      +The36th 1.) You give me a statistic on that first.
      2.) Not the same "culture", holy shit.
      3.) You are a racist, small-minded idiot.

    • @460vsmithwesson3
      @460vsmithwesson3 9 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      +Stavros Sachtouris They are refugees till the point they leave the first country which isn't Syria FYI. The moment they leave the first safe country they become migrants.

    • @TheBadFred
      @TheBadFred 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      460v Smith&Wesson By law they are not allowd to choose their destination county. (Dublin treaty)

  • @ArwenUndomiel406
    @ArwenUndomiel406 8 ปีที่แล้ว +866

    i'm just curious if he's going to devote a Segment on what happened in Cologne on New Years Eve.....

    • @stevenicol1
      @stevenicol1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      +Tauriel Daughter of Mirkwood Don't be silly, when things go bad the liberals never admit they're wrong. They just shrug their shoulders and say it's only a minority'. It's their catchphrase.

    • @ArwenUndomiel406
      @ArwenUndomiel406 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Steve Nicol i know :-( but hope is known to only die in the very, very end.

    • @stevenicol1
      @stevenicol1 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      x

    • @stevenicol1
      @stevenicol1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      ***** Cultural marxists then

    • @stevenicol1
      @stevenicol1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Cultural Marxism is the bane of western society and is what has got into us this mess. It's the reason the authorities tried to cover up 1400 girls being abused in Rotherham to preserve community cohesion.

  • @colbyley7008
    @colbyley7008 4 ปีที่แล้ว +583

    5:31 that turkish refugee just got his date today. sad

    • @ryanspercussion
      @ryanspercussion 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      anyone who actually goes to the timestamp and goes back ~10 seconds will understand that it was a mixup and that the refugee was syrian. no need to get all excited about it

    • @serenabean868
      @serenabean868 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      And in the middle of a pandemic no less

    • @dcamron46
      @dcamron46 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@oz.o well there actually are some, I know someone who's dad is actually. It's unusual but I think most countries have a few refugees, could be for political persecution etc.

    • @pokemagetech
      @pokemagetech 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      dcamron46
      I assume no Western country with decent protections for minorities does? Cause I can’t imagine Canada ever being a source of refugees unless they’re invaded.

    • @jonixd4919
      @jonixd4919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What Turkish refugee? Before talking think, turkey is a well developed secular country. Turkish are not Muslim and they are white, not brown.

  • @katherinepagan4860
    @katherinepagan4860 4 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    I don't even give a shit about Days of Our Lives and the end had me ugly crying

    • @JesseLeeHumphry
      @JesseLeeHumphry 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Shit like that is just beautiful, honestly. John Oliver has a heart as big as all outdoors, and doing that for someone who tugged at his heart just shows how much he, at the end of the day, loves people.

  • @jlapierremusic
    @jlapierremusic 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4536

    North America: 'Everyone is equal!'
    Syria: 'Help!'
    North America: 'Sorry new phone who dis?'

    • @laujack24
      @laujack24 8 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      +jlapierremusic american dont like muslim, europe on the other hand love muslim. thats why all muslim refugee heading for europe, dont hate us for not doing much but u simply dont take in people from country that dislike u.

    • @indy_go_blue6048
      @indy_go_blue6048 8 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      +jlapierremusic America has a pretty unique heritage of accepting new immigrants and of those immigrants accepting America. It's been some time since any politician has made a career out of disparaging Catholics, Jews, Anglicans, etc., not to mention Hindus, Buddhists, Bahais, Sikhs. But then, none of those people have threatened to destroy the West and have actively killed Americans, have they? There's a huge difference between prejudice, hating people for what they are, and in hating and fearing a people for what they do.

    • @Go17Gabe
      @Go17Gabe 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +Chocolate Dinosaur Are you Christian because you clearly haven't read the ENTIRE bible. As Samson said, "With an ass' jawbone, I have made asses of them. With an ass' jawbone, I have killed a thousand men." Look at the Westboro Baptist Church, they are 100% pure Christian and FOXNews lashed out at them because they were too Christian for them.

    • @bw8450
      @bw8450 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      ***** Nah im not christian, because i personally think all religions are evil in there own way, but today ISLAM is the most evil, 400 years ago it was christianity now its ISLAM.

    • @Go17Gabe
      @Go17Gabe 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Chocolate Dinosaur You could say that. Islam is getting the most media coverage. But all it takes for Muslims to become the same as Christians if they don't live 100% by the Qu'ran. That's all.

  • @JHCyber
    @JHCyber 8 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    The comments here are disgusting.

    • @PrincessLockette
      @PrincessLockette 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      +CyberJ This is youtube. What did you expect?

    • @JHCyber
      @JHCyber 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      PrincessLockette I expected to see people commenting on events, but all I see are drones acting as their masters wanted.

    • @Radi0he4d1
      @Radi0he4d1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      +CyberJ
      The guts of french citizens spread all over the floor are even more terrifying.

    • @JHCyber
      @JHCyber 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Radi0he4d1 My point was that people are being racist and xenophobic and not commenting on what's important. They are too busy to hate on this, hate on that...

    • @fuckakakaka
      @fuckakakaka 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +CyberJ
      when you try to ignore people who disagree with you , you can't blame them for getting passionate

  • @endlesssky6225
    @endlesssky6225 5 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I‘m from Germany and I met many refugees who live in Germany now and I‘m impressed how fast especially the kids learn german , and how hard everyone tries to get a job and earn a living. I wonder , how many of the persons, who make hateful comments have ever met a refugee or a migrant ?

    • @taco8512
      @taco8512 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      GATES OF ZION is this the same videos that groups
      Iike Leave.EU faked ahahaha

    • @taco8512
      @taco8512 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      GATES OF ZION www.channel4.com/news/revealed-how-leave-eu-faked-migrant-footage like this one 😂 you really are a special kind of stupid

    • @astrowolvez
      @astrowolvez 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KALKI-mj2fr 😂

    • @lisette2060
      @lisette2060 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂😂😂 Nutcase, are you now happy with latest Kalifatdemos in Hamburg? Ohhh how gorgeously multicultural... 😆😆💩😴😴
      No wonder AfD gains support with such a catastrophic antidemocratic development, supported by you brainless Lefties!

  • @cedkira
    @cedkira 5 ปีที่แล้ว +694

    Anyone else curious how nijean is?

    • @Luthies
      @Luthies 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      th-cam.com/video/Y_Go10BibQ4/w-d-xo.html

    • @saff9775
      @saff9775 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@Luthies Thank you so much! I was just about to try to follow up on her story. I'm so glad she made it to safety!

    • @petarticinovic2710
      @petarticinovic2710 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No.

    • @oneiljunior9837
      @oneiljunior9837 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@petarticinovic2710 ASS!

    • @timeaftertime8005
      @timeaftertime8005 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      She is doing much better. She personally spoke to James Scott and Alison Sweeney after this aired. You can follow her here. twitter.com/NujeenMustafa Not even hours after this aired a member of the EJ and Sami ForbiddenloveEjamiFanForum put together a Gofund me account for Nujeen. Much needed funds were raised for a new wheelchair and other goods.

  • @MrWhangdoodles
    @MrWhangdoodles 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1244

    My grandfather has sponsored two refugee families. I've met them and spent weeks seeing them on a regular basis. They're the most hard working people I know. They spend all their time and money on German courses and learning our ways to fit in. One family from Iraq and one from Somalia. Two children from each family that have gone through hell.
    They are human beings like us and deserve a life just like us.

    • @TheYasmineFlower
      @TheYasmineFlower 8 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      Your grandfather sounds amazing!

    • @DW54x619x
      @DW54x619x 8 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      God bless your grand father

    • @SamianHQuazi
      @SamianHQuazi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      No they don't. Let them immigrate legally.

    • @wusgud-df8fi
      @wusgud-df8fi 7 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      god bless you and your family

    • @MrWhangdoodles
      @MrWhangdoodles 7 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Wesly Stanton The way I see it the world will be mixed race in a millennium anyway. Why stop that trend? It's inevitable. So chill. If it doesn't affect you why should you bother to oppose something that cannot and will not be stopped?
      First World Countries need the extra labor immigrants bring. They have a surplus of human labor and we can use it. Start thinking long term, ignoramus, and just accept that the world is as it is. It's going to develop as it has in the past centuries, the trend is not going to reverse all of a sudden and it shouldn't.

  • @Carlos-wm6ev
    @Carlos-wm6ev 9 ปีที่แล้ว +356

    damn.. this is the first john oliver video that i disliked... i hate when somebody is so bias, defending just one side and giving specific examples of what's really going on... cmon, a 16 year old girl with a mental disease that wants to be an astronaut?? really?... are you really using that cheap american media technique? cmon john i'm not impressed...

    • @morningmadera
      @morningmadera 9 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      +Carlos Aguiar
      You mean you didn't disliked the one about feminism with Anita Sarkeesian?

    • @Carlos-wm6ev
      @Carlos-wm6ev 9 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      CeaoS
      i don't know who that is but if she is a dumb "feminist" probably

    • @morningmadera
      @morningmadera 9 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Carlos Aguiar
      wow :(
      I want to be you and know nothing about the biggest feminazi in the world ...

    • @Carlos-wm6ev
      @Carlos-wm6ev 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      CeaoS
      is that bad? i usually find their retardness funny...

    • @SilverFoxGPC
      @SilverFoxGPC 9 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      +CeaoS That video was not about feminism, but about online harassment. And Sarkeesian was just a tiny part of the whole video.
      And even if you disagree with her actions and statements, death threats and harassments are still wrong and a legit concern to be raised.

  • @InCardiaSnoop
    @InCardiaSnoop 5 ปีที่แล้ว +423

    Well she‘s not a camerawoman anymore. So she‘s actually right.

    • @pokemagetech
      @pokemagetech 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I mean... yeah. Guess so, even if she’s lying about not being hateful and intolerant.

    • @kerrynicholls6683
      @kerrynicholls6683 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I really hope she’s not because that’s just disgraceful disgusting and hateful

    • @sumitwarvatkar898
      @sumitwarvatkar898 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      EU is facing the consequences of refugees now 😂😂😂

    • @pokemagetech
      @pokemagetech 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@sumitwarvatkar898
      The fuck you talking about?

    • @potterpenguin7285
      @potterpenguin7285 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sumitwarvatkar898 I don't see those consequences yet 🤔

  • @amaliepetersen441
    @amaliepetersen441 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I’m from Denmark and most people were so embarrassed by that letter. I know it’s a little late, but I just wanted to say that we are not all monsters.

  • @theDormanian
    @theDormanian 9 ปีที่แล้ว +322

    Wow John you did a great job ignoring the other side of the argument and focusing on one disabled girl for half of the segment.
    What a great unbiased report!

    • @LetsPlayerUltimate
      @LetsPlayerUltimate 9 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      +theDormanian Kastelc Oh please do then make your own report, your own research and then bring out the facts then if you think he is so biased and wrong. FYI we are all biased no exceptions

    • @msjanegrey
      @msjanegrey 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      By the sound of it the press is pro and the population anti.

    • @theDormanian
      @theDormanian 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      msjanegrey Yeah thats its for the most part, im not quite so sure where I stand but this video quite clearly pushed an agenda.

    • @MuaazO
      @MuaazO 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +theDormanian Kastelc May I remind you, It's not a report. It's a comedy show!

    • @momcitomci5244
      @momcitomci5244 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +T With more stupidity? That's a paddlin.

  • @makatron
    @makatron 9 ปีที่แล้ว +397

    Yet another conclusive proof that John Oliver is an awesome immigrant!

    • @nadesico81
      @nadesico81 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      damn Skippy!

    • @mullaleo85
      @mullaleo85 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Isaac Alonzo Racist.

    • @FieldMarshalFry
      @FieldMarshalFry 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Isaac Alonzo *Colonial Govoner
      we have plans for you lot...

    • @XxPLADxX1
      @XxPLADxX1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Leo Mulla how is he a racist?

    • @XxPLADxX1
      @XxPLADxX1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Rowin Rowinson wtf? He is right. Why the insults for nothing.

  • @baegels5272
    @baegels5272 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Hänsel and Gretel builds character

  • @superberniecat5042
    @superberniecat5042 5 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    That Days of Our Lives clip made me cry. So sweet to do something for someone as wonderful as Nijean (hope that's spelt right).

    • @conchurfitzsimons570
      @conchurfitzsimons570 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's like something I heard:
      "You might not be able to help everyone in the world, but doing a good deed for a single person may feel like the world to them"

  • @darkinstinctful123
    @darkinstinctful123 9 ปีที่แล้ว +924

    I thought this was one of the sweetest videos to date. But the comment section is messed up here O_O

    • @RedLeader327
      @RedLeader327 9 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Welcome to TH-cam.

    • @anticosmic8249
      @anticosmic8249 9 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      +Los Blancos
      Because not everyone is satisfied being fed propaganda like you.

    • @darkinstinctful123
      @darkinstinctful123 9 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      ***** aww, that hurt my feelings. haha.
      seriously though, REfugees are more grateful of the country than the people that live there. I've seen that all my life. They work harder because they have more to gain. All i can say is that there might be some initial negatives. But in the long run i see positives form a social and economic view-point.
      Also no need to hate on americans too much. Eurpoeans are as much as racist. europe and Hungary proves that. .

    • @takerdust
      @takerdust 9 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      +Los Blancos it's sweet they show girls and families, even though most of the migrants are young men on their own, who left behind their families.

    • @sanddasa1
      @sanddasa1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Los Blancos Wow I dont know which galaxy you are from but this is Earth son, it aint fairytale and shit.
      And muslim is not a race, if it were asians( which is a race ) I bet everyone would welcome them because they atleast behave. And on another point do you know why Japan is 1 of the best econom country in the world? It is because they dont take in muslim. PS not just Japan all asians country does that.

  • @YuriyBilousov
    @YuriyBilousov 9 ปีที่แล้ว +358

    sensationalism and hypocrisy at its worst.

    • @BonJoviworstbandever
      @BonJoviworstbandever 9 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      +Yuriy Bilousov if you mean right wing media, then absolutely.

    • @supersaiyandrgnslayr
      @supersaiyandrgnslayr 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +BonJoviworstbandever You would be ignorant to think the wings are black and white; hate to break it to you but BOTH sides are corrupt as all hell for different reasons; one's corrupt out of ignorant and dated beliefs and the other is corrupt from manipulation and radical beliefs

    • @LithFox
      @LithFox 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +SemagTlovit Nope. Totally the right wing. All of them act like coked up idiots.

    • @BloggerKid
      @BloggerKid 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Yuriy Bilousov Did John just advocate for the replacement of native european people with a straight face?

    • @YuriyBilousov
      @YuriyBilousov 9 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      BonJoviworstbandever I don't care about sides right/left/north/south.
      This piece about migrants, refugees or whatever else they called is biased in a wrong manner. hypocrisy because this thing was made by some dude in US that has probably strictest migration policy, "hurr durr yurop accept more you heartless bitch"

  • @berniefit2572
    @berniefit2572 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Ok so that one guy w the pink sticky notes date is literally tommorow

  • @stephanieengel7131
    @stephanieengel7131 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I'm German and I live in Germany. We're doing pretty great, thank you 💖

    • @dragonbones3885
      @dragonbones3885 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/jxqh4FWD8Wo/w-d-xo.html

    • @mr.lalnon5455
      @mr.lalnon5455 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@denizkasap7322 No.... I won't..... I can't do this again.... NOOOOOOO!
      *[CITATION NEEDED]*

    • @mortuos557
      @mortuos557 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow... Was für ein ekliger Kommentar... Ich hab den mal gemeldet...

  • @polak551
    @polak551 9 ปีที่แล้ว +897

    Big words from a little man living on the other side of globe.

    • @PLpatriot999
      @PLpatriot999 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      +polak551 on dobrze gada kucu

    • @Kamil2142
      @Kamil2142 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      +johny may Mam nadzieję że żartujesz.

    • @mohamedsolman6613
      @mohamedsolman6613 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      indeed

    • @polatzhela2173
      @polatzhela2173 9 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      +polak551
      Ok so let a boy talk to you, who is from your side of the globe. Germany.
      This whole thing, will cause a lot of problems, that is a fact. It will be hard for us, to face with so many people! But they are People, with hopes and dreams. And every human on this earth, has the same right for a good life. And only because some guys of mother fuckers think, that they have the only right to have a good life, we will not stop to say: "welcome".
      Refugees Welcome

    • @Maxi_94
      @Maxi_94 9 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      +polak551 So Polish people, how much of you plan to immigrate into Germany for pure economical reasons in the future? It was just over 500.000 of you in the last couple of years.
      So wanna talk about floods of mass immigration a little more?

  • @alexspec1772
    @alexspec1772 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1020

    Does anyone remember when muslims around the world burned Danish embassies and killed random scandinavic people while demanding that Denmark changed their laws to stop free speech, all because of some cartoons?

    • @casperheiberg3067
      @casperheiberg3067 9 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      +Alex Spec Yeah we do, also, by coincidence, we've just passed the date of the 10 year "anniversairy" of exactly those drawings being published for the first time. Yup. It's that long ago. And while more than 90 per cent of danish muslims doesn't not wan't to see the drawings reptinted, more then 60 per cent of etnic danish people do. Just to stand up for that freedom of speech.
      We've been making fun of our own queen, jesus, god, priests, the pope, buddha, and litterally all of the religions of the world. And very few ever burned a flag as a result of that. Until we tried making fun of Islam. That, one billion narrow minded people, couldn't handle. Even though we have tried again - and again, to explain that we make fun of litterally everything, and by not making fun of islam, we'd be singling them out, making it seem more racist/hateful, than if we treated them like we treat everyone else. That is the true curse of the muslim though. Thinking you're being treated differently when you actually aren't.

    • @TheDoctorFF
      @TheDoctorFF 9 ปีที่แล้ว +188

      RADICAL Muslims...not normal Muslims. There's a big freaking difference

    • @alexspec1772
      @alexspec1772 9 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Guy Gardner Then why was all the media catering to them? Why was everyone blaming the cartoonists if they were just a few crazy muslims doing that? And why were all the polls showing majority support by muslims for violence against cartoonists.?Why were islamic politicians threatening with the boycotting and destruction of the danish economy?

    • @AbdelOO7
      @AbdelOO7 9 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      +Alex Spec Lmao because polls where 100 muslims are being interviewed are proper examples of the entire muslim population.

    • @alexspec1772
      @alexspec1772 9 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Abdel O Maybe you should look into how polls are made. They`re not taking such a small sample and if done properly the accuracy is great. Also it`s the only way to see what populations think.

  • @WillTellU
    @WillTellU 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    oh hey, that guy with 2020 date should have been processed by now! Yay?

  • @zuluxray2098
    @zuluxray2098 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    how many women, children, elderly people can you see in all these videos?

  • @donfolstar
    @donfolstar 9 ปีที่แล้ว +623

    I have no problem with people who want or need to move to a better place to give themselves and their offspring a better life. We should welcome them with open arms because they demonstrate initiative and/or need.
    I DO have a problem with people who leave or flee from their shitty, failing country and then try to make their new, better country more like back home. If your culture made the last country shitty then maybe, just maybe, you should leave your backwards culture behind and adopt the obviously better (or else why would you migrate?) ways of your new homeland.

    • @takemasterx
      @takemasterx 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      thats a good point the problem is how do you separate them? specially since most of immigrants just want to leave peacefull. and some want you to believe ib what they believe. should the others pay?

    • @takemasterx
      @takemasterx 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +takemasterx live ' peacefully

    • @cowboyfan948288
      @cowboyfan948288 9 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      +donfolstar their culture has nothing to do with the country's problem, it is the situation their country is in and the administration in power there. if a women escaped soviet russia during the cold war you wouldn't yell at her for wearing a russian dress or making beet soup or practicing whatever religion she happened to be.

    • @savage1ma
      @savage1ma 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      +takemasterx They don't all just want to live peaceful, some want to just live like at home but with all the benefits offered by their new host country, not home country... HOST country because thats what it comes down to at the moment.

    • @AneTix101
      @AneTix101 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +takemasterx I think there just needs to be a strong push for assimilation along with an understanding that they bring their own culture. You do this by maintaining your country's laws and demonstrating a steadfast approach to an attempt to change things like religious freedom and freedom of speech. I'm going to guess that most of these people want these rights, then it's just getting them to defend it for others...which plenty of "native" Europeans don't even do.

  • @Senblch
    @Senblch 9 ปีที่แล้ว +329

    Other muslim countries, who share same history and values dont want em(and refugees dont want to go there because you would actually have to work there), and now we Europeans are bad for not wanting them here(most countries have no obligations to take them)?

    • @feralcatgirl
      @feralcatgirl 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      +Pistets S to get to the countries you're referring to (saudi arabia, uae, oman, etc) the refugees would have to cross an enormous desert, which would be even more difficult than the journey to europe

    • @dusjin
      @dusjin 9 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      +Syzygy314159 Bullshit.

    • @andreas7114
      @andreas7114 9 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      +Syzygy314159 That's pure Bullshit.

    • @pixelspeed3178
      @pixelspeed3178 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      +Pistets 4 OR 5 COUNTRIES refused. Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Lebnon, Jordan have taken more then 12 MILIONS of refugees from afghanistan, iraq and Syria...
      even Canada, USA AND AUstralia have REFUSED TO TAKE refugees but... WHO care of few?

    • @mojammer
      @mojammer 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      duh, if you don't accept hundreds of thousands of migrants from a completely incompatible culture who hate you that means you're racist. get with the program buddy, take it up ass like a good boy

  • @aforslow
    @aforslow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Number of refugees granted asylum 2015-2017:
    Sweden: 52,713; 86,719; 55,738
    USA: 69,933; 84,994; 53,716
    Population 2019:
    Sweden: 10.23 million
    USA: 328.2 million
    Please tell me again how bad us Europeans are for not taking in enough asylum seekers. As a Swede, I especially like hearing this from a privileged guy who moved away from Europe to USA. Especially when it’s about middle eastern countries who we all know USA has never bombed or done any harm against.
    Yes, WE are the bad ones who should do more. Please do another episode when you’ve climbed down from your high horse.

    • @mishaf19
      @mishaf19 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You think Americans like John don’t want to accept more asylum seekers?

    • @aforslow
      @aforslow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, I think he wants it, but that’s because he will always win this game. I’ve seen this behaviour before, where someone pats themselves on the back for wanting to help more asylum seekers whilst lifting themselves up at the thought of being so much better than the racist scum who doesn’t want to; always making sure to keep it off of their own backyard. It’s very easy for someone like him to keep playing this game, since he can always move away when the problems start getting too close to his own backyard.
      And no, I’m not saying that asylum seekers or immigrants are problems. What I’m saying is that high levels of irresponsible immigration leads to problems with culture clashes, socioeconomic problems, integration issues, etc. It’s a complex issue, and the lack of nuance in this episode comes across as John Oliver patting himself on the back for being better than those racist Europeans...

    • @BinaryBlueBull
      @BinaryBlueBull 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@aforslow Those were exactly my thoughts as well when watching this video

    • @_ZeroSum_
      @_ZeroSum_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did he mention Sweden in this episode? And anyway, once Trump was in office, this show did a lot of episodes and bits about how America should get their shit together with immigration

    • @aforslow
      @aforslow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@_ZeroSum_ Did you read my reply to @Hacker Snacker above? No, he didn't mention Sweden in particular. However, the Swedish government had his perspective during the migrant crisis and followed through with the policies he preached, and now we're getting news about murders, gang rapes, bombings, torture robberies, drug maffias, teenage hitmen, etc, etc on a daily basis. Sweden used to be one of the safest places in Europe - now it's quickly becoming the least safe place here. All because of this naive and rather appalling perspective.
      Through his strawmanning in this episode, it was clear that John Oliver criticized any country that wanted to defend their borders and were anxious of the consequences the 'open borders' kind of policy would lead to. Moreover, he didn't have any critique of the countries that did have this kind of policy, so this episode falls flat as 'open borders' propaganda.
      It's super easy for people like this to come with critique when they have nothing at stake. If, however, he would suffer the consequences of what he's preaching and see his neighborhood get turned into a ghetto, I'm not so sure he would be so loud. I find it disgusting with people like this, because they have created so much suffering in their quest to look good; all the while silencing concerned people by painting them as evil.
      And sure, he may be criticizing Trump's immigration policies, etc, but he's actually made a conscious decision to become an American citizen; thus reaping the benefits of the policies that are in place. If he truly felt that these policies were appalling, he could move to a ghetto in Sweden and record his episodes from here. Then he'd get to live what he's so warmheartedly preached for.
      But no, that's never going to happen, because people like this prioritize looking good over being good. They prefer telling others what to do, rather than doing it themselves. They react with emotions in the moment and fail to see the long-term destruction of their preached policies.

  • @rrl903
    @rrl903 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    That girl is just so sweet and precious ~~

  • @MRayner59
    @MRayner59 9 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    While realizing this is comedy program, this was an incredibly biased take on the situation that ignored many key aspects of this current invasion of Europe by so-called “refugees” such as the fact that only about a third are fleeing the civil war in Syria, the vast majority are unaccompanied young men, and that rape is endemic in the camps where they’re being temporarily housed. Counter to the charming young girl in the wheelchair, maybe John should have shown the video of a Muslim boy gleefully making a throat slitting gesture to the camera while being filmed at a train station. He might also have mentioned that ISIS has boasted that it has infiltrated the migrants with “thousands” of its fighters.

    • @smitetheunholy6179
      @smitetheunholy6179 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Martin Rayner The video I saw of those migrants on the train showed them chanting
      "O Allah let their children be orphans... Amen!"
      "O Allah grant Islam victory everywhere... Amen!"
      "Allah Akbar!" etc...

    • @abdelfattahchabani2193
      @abdelfattahchabani2193 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Drunk Bastard the name of the vid pls

    • @MahatmaAgrobiznes
      @MahatmaAgrobiznes 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +Martin Rayner Well first of all if this is an invasion, where are their tanks? It's not anything close to an invasion and calling it like this is just a disgusting propaganda. And, if this was an invasion, then what would be the Polish migration to Germany and UK? A genocide? Because it's far larger than this so-called "invasion". Just because you're opposed to accepting the migrants doesn't allow you say anything you want., some words are acceptable while some are not, you may want to watch the beginning of this video once again to find out why. For example, I believe it's acceptable to say that many of those young men should be sent back or not accepted, if their only motivation is economy. But it's not acceptable to call them animals or anything like that.
      Only about a half (and not a third, you may check this out even on Wikipedia in the article "european migrant crisis") are fleeing the war in Syria because - guess what - there are other civil wars and even other problems (like dictatorships) in the world. Does "Afghanistan" ring a bell?
      There are some videos of boys making throat gestures, there are even videos of people throwing stones and rioting. However, they are overwhelmed by videos showing migrants... simply not doing those things. In fact, not doing anything dangerous, just behaving normally. So John's program was not biased, it just focused on the general situation, not the exceptions, and was based on facts, not speculations.

    • @valgehiir
      @valgehiir 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Martin Rayner Oliver automatically taking PC approach when Islam is concerned.

    • @valgehiir
      @valgehiir 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ***** Do you think Oliver would dare to criticize Islam, knowing next day he will be called a bigot and a racist? No fucking way, no one has the nerve to call out this death cult, other than Maher.

  • @yyyuuu100
    @yyyuuu100 9 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    As someone who does not live in Europe, it appears to me that the biggest point you haven't considered is that Europeans, like most people, do not want millions of people that will bring a different culture to their countries. This will be a situation where Europeans will find it hard to keep their identity and heritage.

    • @rosabellaalvarez-calderon4586
      @rosabellaalvarez-calderon4586 9 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      +yyyuuu100 "Europeans, like most people, do not want millions of people that will bring a different culture to their country" 1. Too late, it has already happened and will keep happening. 2. A long time ago, European powers and monarchies certainly did not mind doing precisely that to Africa, Asia and America...

    • @MisterHeroman
      @MisterHeroman 9 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      +Rosabella Alvarez-Calderon Two wrongs don't make a right.
      Besides, that was the actions of people long dead.

    • @henry.daniels
      @henry.daniels 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +yyyuuu100 Even if the whole population of Syria (and that is a massive overestimate) decided to leave and go to Europe, the population of Europe would increase by about 3%. Do you really think that 3% of people, in a country that isn't their own, will be able to completely destroy the local heritage? Even if they really try (which isn't the case)?

    • @MisterHeroman
      @MisterHeroman 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      henry krupka
      3% is a very big number when talking about population.

    • @henry.daniels
      @henry.daniels 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Again, we're imagining that the whole country of Syria is entirely deserted and every last inhabitant has decided to come to the same contient. And yes, 3% isn't nothing, but it's nowhere near the amount you'd need for people to lose their heritage. Sure it might bring some diversity, god forbid, but it won't remove any existing situation

  • @sarahlisa5191
    @sarahlisa5191 5 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    I know it's corny, but I love when they do things for "regular folk" like that amazing refugee girl.

    • @a.d.1563
      @a.d.1563 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      JO is a great Person :)

    • @kemvalen4784
      @kemvalen4784 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That girl is anything but regular among migrants.

    • @MultiBitcheskiller
      @MultiBitcheskiller 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm not crying, You're crying!!!

    • @MattC-jg1yb
      @MattC-jg1yb 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "omg this girl has a sad life, let's let in million of others"

    • @Onigirli
      @Onigirli ปีที่แล้ว

      Soul is not corny!

  • @whatgamesweplay
    @whatgamesweplay 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    this video has not aged well

    • @kylefox2397
      @kylefox2397 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      In what way?

  • @Ch1Frequency
    @Ch1Frequency 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1922

    Save yourselves from the ignorance: Don't scroll down. Is a minefield of racism and biased fears.

    • @MyName-tk7ex
      @MyName-tk7ex 9 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      +Ch1Frequency Europeans have a reason to be afraid of people that have done nothing but cause trouble in the past.

    • @Ch1Frequency
      @Ch1Frequency 9 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      +BRIAN SMITH yes. the fact that most of the conflict in middle East was caused by Europeans has nothing to do with it. and neither is the fact that most people in middle East are non-violent. if you want better based irrational fears, I would be far more scared to let a NRA fan into my country, even when my country is Mexico.

    • @possumverde
      @possumverde 9 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      +Ch1Frequency I'm curious...are you like 12 years old or somewhere close to that? If you're an actual adult, then your naivety is simply astounding...

    • @ac1dman
      @ac1dman 9 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      +possumverde ooh, a personal attack. that'll sway the argument.

    • @lindiwebobo7371
      @lindiwebobo7371 9 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      +Ch1Frequency You were right. I should not have scrolled down.

  • @globalcitizenn
    @globalcitizenn 9 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Why can't people be just seen as people, instead of refugees, immigrants, human resources, votebanks, consumers, cases?

    • @CoolbroSwaggins
      @CoolbroSwaggins 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      +GaearGrimsrud ow the edge

    • @andrewwatson536
      @andrewwatson536 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +GaearGrimsrud hahaha. You're funny. Stupid Nazi (and yes, you're a Nazi when you have a photo of them as your profile photo). Why comment if you have nothing to say?

    • @danielhofkes7064
      @danielhofkes7064 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +GaearGrimsrud If you don't see why human lives are worth more than thatof a fly, you're a fucking psychopath.

    • @TheRahkul
      @TheRahkul 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +globalcitizenn Because monsters don't have horns!

    • @AperturePowered
      @AperturePowered 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +GaearGrimsrud You're one of those guys that's probably ignored in real life.

  • @mortuos557
    @mortuos557 5 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    I really like this episode, it allows me to be proud of my country. That's not something I feel very often...

    • @mortuos557
      @mortuos557 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @Stefan Remund nope Germany

    • @mortuos557
      @mortuos557 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Blue Crusader criminals exist in every country or culture.
      I don't judge millions of people for the deeds of a few.
      The same way I don't want to be judged for what my ancestors did.
      Racism is a poison made from fear of the unknown, once you know these people, it ceases to be effective.

    • @mortuos557
      @mortuos557 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Blue Crusader that couldn't be more pot calling the cattle black😂
      Arguing with a racist and likely fascist ist futile, since as you pointed out, you don't accept the humanity of people that don't belong to your culture group.
      Therefore I wish you the best of luck in finding someone, that can tolerate your toxic behavior.

    • @nagyonbalogh
      @nagyonbalogh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I feel exactly the same pride about Hungary. Obviously not because of the 2 scumbags portrayed (and portrayed ONLY) here but because of all the disciplined and well measured efforts of the Hungarian police and armed forces to defend the country while everyone else was pointing fingers and calling them nazis. Then, many silently doing the same anyways. Ironic and repulsive IMHO. Nonetheless, a country is a country only as long as it can defend its borders. Once that is gone it is not an independent country anymore. I am a Hungarian living in minority just south of the border in Serbia. This gave me a front raw seat in the 2015 migration crisis. I saw swaths of men aged roughly 15 to 50. I barely ever saw women or children. Yet that is all you saw in western media. Just like on this show. I really thought Mr Oliver was smarter than this.

    • @Lichenroc
      @Lichenroc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nagyonbalogh TBH it just feels like even given a choice you Hungarians wouldn't take in any refugees or have any sense of altruism to your fellow man.

  • @t-time6118
    @t-time6118 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This didn't age well

    • @kylefox2397
      @kylefox2397 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      In what way?

    • @dotonthehorizon9620
      @dotonthehorizon9620 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@kylefox2397in the 8 years since this was made, multiple more wars happened, europe has been getting 'swarmed' with refugees and many terrorist attacks have happened all over europe. Oh and the guy from the Netherlands has got by far the most votes in this year's elections. Together with climate change it has been the hottest topic in politics and life in general for a decade

    • @dragondanyar9508
      @dragondanyar9508 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@dotonthehorizon9620There are only like 6 wars going on rn, which has nothing do with immigrants. Way better than 20+ years ago. I don’t even think you know what a terrorist attack is. You’re just saying that because of ”muslim” immigration (most immigrants aren’t even muslims). Instead of saying terrorism has increased, just say crime rate has increased. No need to make yourself look stupid by using a word you don’t know how to use.

  • @mistirknows5183
    @mistirknows5183 9 ปีที่แล้ว +646

    why the richest muslim coutries, i.e. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Bahrein do not accept refugies at all? What's wrong with them? Why Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Egipt accepted houndreds of thousands of them, but these monarchies almost none? And after that Saudi Arabia dares to say, that they are ready to build 200 mosques in Germany for the refugies!

    • @mlaridon
      @mlaridon 9 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      +Mistir Knows Especially considering Saudi Arabia has an air conditioned tent city near Mecca that can house 3 million people, which only gets used a few days out of the year.

    • @CrashBashIsTaken
      @CrashBashIsTaken 9 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      +Mistir Knows The gulf countries are very small with the exception of Saudi Arabia. UAE Already has more than 5 million indians working there. This is only one group. The People of UAE are like small fraction of only the indains. Saudi Arabia has 9 million foreign workers with 17 million saudis. They were about to hold Hajj which means more than 5 million people will visit makkah. They failed because they couldn't handle the big numbers. Saudi Arabia is right now in a war against groups in Yemen who are trying to takeover Yemen. With more than 3 Yemeni people in SA. It's very volatile. Let's not forget they have this weird standoff with Iran. SA is the only country that can handle the refugees but this time in its history it can't get any more unstable and dangerous. You should wish nothing would happen to saudi because sure europe will not wanna have millions of saudi refugees.

    • @roadrash76
      @roadrash76 9 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      because those Saudi and the others you mentioned are already firmly Islamic. they want to spread outward and thus need to migrate to those countries that are not Islamic.

    • @salocin4444
      @salocin4444 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Mistir Knows As far I as know, they do not want refugees in their countries, but the do however raise a lot of money for charity and refugee support

    • @crispybacon4240
      @crispybacon4240 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Mistir Knows Only Twenty percent of the world's Muslims live in the Middle East. A majority live in Asia.

  • @Sozitante
    @Sozitante 9 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    He forgot his OWN COUNTRY.....
    Why the us not help? Their politic in the middle east is one of the reason why so people seeking asylum. But hey, its easier to blame europe...

    • @BADASSMOTHERFFER102
      @BADASSMOTHERFFER102 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Omid x all this shit started when the Soviet Union tried to take over the middle east. think about the middle east ruled by Russia. watch Charlie Wilson's War and get back to me.

    • @Sozitante
      @Sozitante 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tom Smith im from Germany not from spain

    • @BADASSMOTHERFFER102
      @BADASSMOTHERFFER102 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      ok, that was a mistake on my part. i'm sorry. but on the real i be careful of letting that many people into my country. I hope Germany knows what there doing.

    • @piercethepotato7287
      @piercethepotato7287 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Eva die Sozitante He's originally from the UK, and UK blood still seeps from him.

    • @Sammyboy27007
      @Sammyboy27007 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Tom Smith Afghanistan isn't in the middle east.

  • @jamison85
    @jamison85 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    5:18 - hope that person remembers their appointment today!!

  • @austinroos9355
    @austinroos9355 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    That Iraqi in Turkey is almost ready to come back.

  • @intrepidtomato
    @intrepidtomato 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1275

    I'm German, and I can't agree with everything John Oliver said in this segment.
    The economic and demographic argument of accepting immigrants are well known. Also, Germans are atypically happy to accept at least a certain number of the Syrian refugees since almost all of us have refugees in our families - people that fled from what is now Poland, people displaced by the second world war, later people that fled the GDR. There is great sympathy for the people affected by war.
    However, it is not true that there are only upsides for the hosting country. In the short term, it has become pretty difficult to get doctor's appointments because the migrants put an additional strain on our health system. We have an existing population of muslims from different ethnic groups and we already see the first squabbles and fights between these groups in Germany. Lastly, while Germany will experience a gradual demographic and cultural change anyway - a slow influx of people from different cultures is unavoidable and not particularly threatening - just dropping a giant group of newcomers with very different cultural attitudes in our country all at once is a challenge of gargantuan proportions.
    In my daily life, I see many examples of refugees who make a point of being friendly and respectful towards the locals and vice versa, and this is hopeful. However, I think Germany can take a maximum of slightly less than a million all told if we want any hope of integrating most of them in the medium term. And this influx will put a disproportional strain on the poorer population of Germany, who will see most of them arrive in their neighbourhoods.

    • @laujack24
      @laujack24 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      +FoxenTower if anything, germany should take more. these r doctor/engineer/teacher from middle east, they will enrich ur culture.

    • @intrepidtomato
      @intrepidtomato 8 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Obvious troll is obvious.

    • @intrepidtomato
      @intrepidtomato 8 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      ***** I take your point about Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan who host far more people, but cultural similarity does play a role - at least Jordan and Lebanon's populations speak the same language as the Syrians. And I blame the unnecessary war waged by the so called axis of the willing in Iraq for the current situation. Germany, however, does not bomb Iraq (tried to find a source, this did not happen), and will only send supporting troops (surveillance aircraft), not bombers, to Syria.
      Edit: We probably sold weapons to most of the different parties involved in the conflict, so I don't see Germany as blameless, but we're pretty slow to deploy the army.
      Yes, especially the US and the UK (also Poland...) should do more to help the refugees after destabilising the area. I still maintain, for practical reasons, it would not be a good idea for Germany to take in even more refugees. We could not offer them jobs or decent housing in the short term and this would create a problem down the line.

    • @Jalgorn
      @Jalgorn 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      +Ibn lm and FoxenTower Wow, I read that comment section with delight. It shows the huge difference between cultures, gave also a critic on politics and wasn´t in slightest way offensive nor degrading. Thx for that, well done, friends.

    • @intrepidtomato
      @intrepidtomato 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      ***** Extremely one sided view of European history. Some of the cities on the baltic coast, such as Gdánsk (Danzig) were founded by Germans and went back and forth between Germany, Poland and Russia for centuries. I have no investment in the location of the current or former borders (my granddad had first a Russian,then a Polish, then a German passport and spoke all three of those languages), but it is a fact that there were German people born in parts of what was then the German Reich, e.g. the Baltic coast, that found themselves on Polish territory after the war I take it you are Polish.

  • @thatonegirl1553
    @thatonegirl1553 8 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Question here: How does an influx of lower-wage immigrants raise wages for everyone else and not doing the exact opposite? What is the incentive for employers to actually raise wages once they have so many people willing to work for less? Am I missing something or what?

    • @orlind
      @orlind 8 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      +Tia Peteva Influxes of lower-wage immigrants taking those low wage jobs leads to more spending as they will spend a large portion of their incomes. Depending on the industry and sector, there is a lack of people willing to fill certain occupations. Middle-class citizens generally don't want to take these occupations and even lower-wage citizens turn down some of these occupations. And forget about higher-wage or wealthy people; they stay rich because they generally never spend enough to stimulate an economy in almost ever sense. Its how the rich stay rich in most respects.
      Eventually, these influxes of extra people and increased spending leads to increased demand for various public and private services, leading to more open positions in higher paying occupations from that increased spending. Let's not forget, maybe G20 nations are not producing enough children and many of them are becoming geriatric nations unable to support themselves due to various policies. You don't need to look further than Japan with its xenophobia or the disastrous One-Child Policy in China (which they finally cancelled).

    • @mrredlines4904
      @mrredlines4904 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +Tia Peteva It doesn't work in practice. In areas of the US where Mexican immigrants tend to cluster, the unemployment rates are twice the national average and yes big businesses do lay people off, hire migrants and pay them extremely low wages.
      I moved out of my home state at 18 because it was so fucking difficult to get a job. Leftists that live nowhere near the problem will continue to spew buzzwords and tell you how it should work in theory but it doesn't.

    • @orlind
      @orlind 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Mr Redlines The reasons why it doesn't work in the US go beyond what I mentioned. Policy in the US since the early 80s has enfeebled the majority of working people in the US and given too much power to the rich. Left and Right don't matter since both have done damage in their own ways. This has created a country that currently has one of the biggest social and economic inequalities in the world.
      In other countries, where programs and funding exists to facilitate immigration and social growth, what I already described does in fact work. I, in fact, live in an area where this works fine and former refugees have in fact strengthened the economy and even have immigrants in high levels of national government.

    • @UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana
      @UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Tia Peteva Low wage earning employees all require resources to survive. This buying creates more jobs. As the low income workers cannot afford much, their demand for cheap goods incentives business to make things cheaper as they can reliably get more sales. In order to facilitate demand new companies will be created (probably from the migrants, but either way it's one new businessman and a productive asset)
      A more weird benefit is tat bigger systems are more efficient, so increasing the numbers increases per capita productivity. More importantly the migrants are unlikely to be very skilled or educated meaning their jobs will be different than everyone else's meaning competition will be very low (more people can replace car parts does not means artists are cheaper), hence only the number of jobs at the bottom end will increase. This will scale the more skilled jobs as a direct result of a business producing more (there are more consumers and workers now).
      To put it simply once the limit for businesses growth was workers. Now they have many of those, so they need more of every other staff to manage them. This increases demand for educated/skilled workers (their numbers have not increased remember).Therefore with supply and demand rules, the wages for
      the more skilled employees must go up.
      To visualise it with animals, let's say you need equal pigs and chickens for Bacon and eggs. Suddenly you get twice as many chickens, but demand for Bacon and eggs increases in proportion (migrants need to eat). Suddenly you need twice as many pigs, which you get from the farmers market as well to meet demand, but the price of chickens and pigs are not directly linked. When everyone does this the farmers market runs low so the last ones are sold at a higher price.
      P.S. This is not the perfect answer and it relies on the host country being pro-education (otherwise everyone's chickens).

    • @madams6796
      @madams6796 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Tia Peteva First, NOT every migrant/refugee is "lower wage" earner..many are educated and professionally skilled...however, they pay taxes and contribute to the market system by purchasing "stuff"....that contributes overall to a society where the average age is higher and more and more folks are closing in on retirement age. Younger workers are essential to maintain their powerhouse economy...that is why immigration is essential...that is why America truly needs new motivated workers...of course US employment benefits are not as attractive as European so they are not interested in being the next Walmart slave wage workers....

  • @tompoessy
    @tompoessy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    as a muslim its devastating seeing people declare im a terrorist or a danger to the state for no reason

  • @shannaemmanuel8626
    @shannaemmanuel8626 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I wonder if that guy got his appointment in February....

  • @Drapperbat
    @Drapperbat 7 ปีที่แล้ว +532

    That ending was the sweetest thing I've ever seen in my life. I hope she saw it

    • @myendlessloveejami6845
      @myendlessloveejami6845 7 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      She did and the actors personally contacted her and she spoke to them both. From this news event a go fund me account was created and fans of EJ & Sami worldwide raised money to purchase Nujeen a much needed new electric wheel chair and other goodies such as books.

    • @asherikamichaela8425
      @asherikamichaela8425 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      myendlessloveejami that's amazing! so happy to hear that 😁

    • @asherikamichaela8425
      @asherikamichaela8425 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Defend Europe You need serious help.

    • @asherikamichaela8425
      @asherikamichaela8425 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Defend Europe You said that you "genuinely hope she gets hit by a bus." There aren't many ways to take that, especially when you use the word "genuinely." If you don't mean it that way, it would probably be better to choose something else. Reading intent in text can be tricky, with no inflection or expression to go by, particularly in short sentences.

    • @asherikamichaela8425
      @asherikamichaela8425 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Defend Europe You should find a more productive hobby, then. Personally, I'm not "triggered," overused as that is. Very few things push my buttons, and when that happens, it's never a good thing for the instigator. You'd know it if you hit one.

  • @terezaodradovcova812
    @terezaodradovcova812 9 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    Sorry but this is just sick. Its not fair how you are showing just one-side of this. Of course the one where Europe is so cruel to them.
    Where is the other video where they were throwing food and water away? I don't know but if I was desperate and looking for help I would definetly not throw food away!!!
    If John Oliver is that positive about them ... he should take some refugees home. Greetings from the Czech Republic!

    • @Nightman221k
      @Nightman221k 9 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      +Tereza Odradovcová I was thinking the same thing. The media is overwhelmingly one sided on this entire issue.

    • @terezaodradovcova812
      @terezaodradovcova812 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +Nightman221k exactly! It's just frustrating ...

    • @lkalden4555
      @lkalden4555 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      dedeee
      Mate I'm not saying what they did was right or lawful, they should have complied with regulations. However, I'm saying that if this happened to any normal person, they would not get out due to the circumstances. If the people who have treated you badly all along the trip are asking you to leave a train you have a ticket for, fuck them. Do you really think these refugees had time to check up every law, so that they'd know to get out? No. To them it looked like some police guys were trying to lure them out of their safe train with food.
      P.S.: I love the ad hominems and the bigotry. It really shows what an intellectual giant you are. By the way, you aren't exactly representing your side well with those lovely pictures you paint. And just as a side note, being proud of living in a country that treats these human beings like shit; not something you should be doing.
      P.P.S.: I'm not a fan of the media myself, and the coverage has been one sided from the liberals. However, the conservatives like fox aren't exactly being objective now, are they? And at least the liberals don't use photos and videos from 5 years ago to hopelessly try and prove a point.

    • @martinruscak6543
      @martinruscak6543 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Tereza Odradovcová
      Milá Terezo, píšu česky, protože je to určeno pouze vám: ta věc s vzetím si lidí na útěku domů je podle mého názoru demagogie. Steně byste mohla říct, že jiné problémy (potopa, pád meteoritu, průnik nakažlivého onemocnění, ... ) má být řešena soukromně, protože předse se netýká většiny obyvatelstva a možná dost lidí by hlasovalo za to neřešit to. Evropa (západní civilizace) je tím čím je, protože je postavena na humanitních principech, které se vytvořily zejména v posledních 200 - 300 letech. Znamenají pomoci si sám a sdílenou odpovědnost za ty, kteří si nemohou pomoct sami. Oplocená Evropa mi připomíná jednu povídku od E.A.Poe - Maska červené smrti. Vybudování oplocení ničí ty, co jsou vevnitř a stejně nezabrání průniku toho, proti čemu byla postavena. Zdravím, MR

    • @petrucho130
      @petrucho130 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely agree

  • @joseirizarry2799
    @joseirizarry2799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Would love a comparison with how ukraine refugees are being described and treated

    • @aleksandrakowalczyk6043
      @aleksandrakowalczyk6043 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And compare rape and kill stats.

    • @HemantKumar-id3jg
      @HemantKumar-id3jg 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@aleksandrakowalczyk6043 You do that and also compare how much strain they put economically on your country.
      You disgusting racist.

  • @magografico
    @magografico 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is so cool and emotional... the first LWT episode I ever watched, one of the best ones... never stop doing this John!!

  • @EdithEsquivel
    @EdithEsquivel 9 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Not to justify Europe, but what about Saudi Arabia and other neighboring rich Islamic countries? Why aren't they welcoming any refugees, who are additionally of the same religion and similar culture as theirs? What's their excuse? No one is talking about that.

    • @andiebarrow3606
      @andiebarrow3606 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Edith Esquivel To be fair, I don't think anyone in their right mind would want to emigrate to Saudi Arabia--the constant human rights abuses of its government are rather notorious. And for a lot of these refugees (especially Syrian refugees), European culture is actually a lot more similar to what they're used to than, say, Iraqi culture. The whole idea that Islam is super different from other religions is largely a Western political construct.

    • @EdithEsquivel
      @EdithEsquivel 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Andrew Barrow I didn't know their culture was so different. It can't be, when they share Arabic at least. I know Islam is not such a different religion (I listen to Tapestry, CBC radio), but I mentioned it because it is normal for people among the same religious tradition to offer help, and even if Saudi Arabia and other rich Islamic countries are difficult, they would not be as difficult as war, I pressume, being wealthy and stable countries. Saudi Arabia: 0 / Kuwait: 0 / Qatar: 0 / Bahrain: 0 / United Arab Emirates: 250,000 They are collectively known as the Persian Gulf states, and even though they share a language and the Arabian Peninsula with Syria, the Gulf nations are among the few nations that haven't participated in the 1951 U.N. treaty on refugees, they are not legally obliged. However, morally, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have an obligation to help victims of a war in which those nations have been involved through their financial support of rebel groups that have fought Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. My opinion.

    • @moe2366
      @moe2366 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Edith Esquivel Islam could vary greatly in its denominations, just think of the differences between Catholicism and Mormanism. Sunni and Shi'ates have divided Iraq even before the US entered the war with them. While the Persian countries should accept refugees, European countries should as well. Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey alone are taking in 4 million; Syrians have become 1/4th of the Turkish population, just think about that for a second. Finally, Europe and the US are the ones who worsened the Civil war in Syria as they have funded the Syrian rebels, not persian countries (Although Saudi Arabia has). My theory is that these Persian countries feel like they had no hand in this and those responsible, should accept the refugees.

    • @EdithEsquivel
      @EdithEsquivel 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Zonda _ Saudi Arabia and Qatar are responsible too, as I mentioned above.

    • @andiebarrow3606
      @andiebarrow3606 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Edith Esquivel I certainly agree that Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Emirates should be contributing monetarily. Any nation with wealth to spare should be (including the US)

  • @bluewaters4567
    @bluewaters4567 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2271

    "Mosques dont naturally form in the wild due to religious beavers". That was just hilarious.

    • @omarshah1614
      @omarshah1614 6 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      As a Muslim, I can say that that is NOT how mosques form

    • @muuundotarde7914
      @muuundotarde7914 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Omar Shah.. Really? Is it child bride tears that crystelize into them?

    • @omarshah1614
      @omarshah1614 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      No. You build them. Out of building materials. Like regular buildings. The one I go to is made mostly of concrete.

    • @muuundotarde7914
      @muuundotarde7914 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Omar Shah but concrete is made of ground rocks, rocks wich are made from elements wich we know are formed in the core of stars.
      But your holy book says god made the planet in 7 days.
      So your praying in structures made by materials that disproove your holy texts? That just seem like bad practice if you ask me.

    • @omarshah1614
      @omarshah1614 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      muuundo tarde what else were we supposed to use? Besides, concrete is a decent building material if I do say so myself. At any rate, how does praying in a concrete building disprove the fact that God created things that exist? And one more thing-God didn’t take seven days to create the world, and by extension, the singularity (that’s what I’m calling it) that the world and everything else came from. It was more like an instant, or just an infinitesimally small amount of time. I’m not exactly sure of the intricacies, but the point is, using concrete isn’t exactly heresy.

  • @loadedmusic3192
    @loadedmusic3192 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And why are there refugees in the first place Oliver?

  • @samuelwarner8841
    @samuelwarner8841 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    John Oliver : I'm getting my shotgun and to higher ground
    "It's over Anakats, I have the high ground!"

  • @TheCoveryChanel
    @TheCoveryChanel 9 ปีที่แล้ว +367

    20% of people dislike your superficial video. I love your videos Oliver, but that wasnt your best.

    • @Fragenzeichenplatte
      @Fragenzeichenplatte 9 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      +TheCovery As we all know dislikes on TH-cam are *the* indicator of quality. The only reason why people would downvote a video is when the video is wrong.

    • @AdrianCiubotariu
      @AdrianCiubotariu 9 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      +Fragenzeichenplatte this is nowhere near as researched as any other story they presented. they have the resources to send people there and do some actual assessment.

    • @matthewgriffin7857
      @matthewgriffin7857 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      true...

    • @kenjeknowsbest
      @kenjeknowsbest 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +austrianRealist "News Networks" won't help you. Go read a few dozen history books first.

    • @TheCoveryChanel
      @TheCoveryChanel 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ***** So, Mr. Oliver "touch" one side. The populism side. Imho.

  • @Kittensinurface
    @Kittensinurface 9 ปีที่แล้ว +777

    I've never disagreed with John so vehemently on any subject before.
    Furthermore, I'm a personal friend of Mr. Toroczkai, the Hungarian mayor you mocked. He is the most hardworking man I know who is available 24 hours a day to help anybody in town. He will do anything from chopping wood to donating toys and food to poor families. There are times when he doesn't sleep for days because he is so busy. He has done hundreds of hours of community service and labor over the summer in order to keep his town clean and safe. You realise every day in the summer in Hungary there were THOUSANDS of migrants just running through town, trashing everything they saw? Hundreds of migrant men ROBBED, and BROKE into people's houses this summer in Ásotthalom. They stole bicycles and terrified children and caused forest fires! Did you know that the territory of Ásotthalom is a culturally protected habitat, one of the few places in the country practicing traditional farmlife? There are hundreds of rare trees in the area.
    There was even a day in August when a group of 300 men sat in the middle of one of the main roads and effectively blockaded it, demanding that they are provided buses to Austria. There are photographs of all of these incidents on László's facebook page. Anyone can see them, check for yourself.
    John, I'm sorry, but I'm deeply disgusted by this video. It is one-sided and rude. It is not funny. It is childish and tacky to the last degree. I would immediately apologise if I were you.

    • @Darth3492
      @Darth3492 9 ปีที่แล้ว +227

      +Kittensinurface ok.. great guy apparently. but that is not an excuse to treat foreigners this way. Good deeds don't excuse bad ones

    • @TM56
      @TM56 9 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      +Kittensinurface Its funny when it's about a biased view of Americans and the USA, but when it's thrown at you Europeans you can't take it.
      Hmmm...

    • @entewente
      @entewente 9 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      +Kittensinurface
      Nice propaganda lies you came up with.

    • @Chiplis
      @Chiplis 9 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      +Kittensinurface I honestly can't see your point. A bunch of people (immigrants) did some horrible things in Ásotthalom, OK. How many immigrants are living there? I'm willing to bet considerably more than the ones responsible for the crimes commited.
      How do we get from that to denying asylum to refugees? Why would the actions of some reflect those of everyone?

    • @starlinguk
      @starlinguk 9 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      +Kittensinurface Hungarian? Remember the Prague Spring? You know why people are so p-ssed off at Hungary? Because countries welcomed your refugees with open arms and now you refuse to welcome them yourself.

  • @Ryattt81
    @Ryattt81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Proples fear and hatred of "the other" is both very natural, and very depressing.

  • @dearseall
    @dearseall 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Think about this:
    EU spend 5000 Billion Euros because of an economic crisis that began in USA
    EU did not spend 150 million Euros because of a war in Syria to prevent a refugee crisis.

    • @samuelrs5138
      @samuelrs5138 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I do not think European nations would like to divest from the US market place and have the US divest all european investment. It would be much worse for your economies. The economic benefits the US brings to you is very large. So yes, US economic slowdown effects europe because of the size of the US economy and market place but it also greatly benefits you when there is no slowdown.

  • @Axe5197
    @Axe5197 9 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    What about the Muslim immigrants in Germany who tried to get Oktoberfest fest cancelled?Or ones that are complaining about food and water the government is giving them for free? What is going on is terrible and sad that millions on people had to flee their homeland but a majority of them are being shitty towards the countries that have taken them in and are giving them free stuff.

    • @mistrpow4758
      @mistrpow4758 9 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      +Mr_Diddles what about germans that dont work or do anything just living from Hartz 4 that complain about shit they get for free?

    • @Darth3492
      @Darth3492 9 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      +Mr_Diddles sources?

    • @Mancom37
      @Mancom37 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +MistrPow Germans not working? what is that 0.1% of the population able to work?Germans are notorious for being hard workers.....

    • @gunnarlott5474
      @gunnarlott5474 9 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      +Mr_Diddles Getting Oktoberfest cancelled? Well, that was a fake, obviously.
      www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/truth-revealed-behind-petition-ban-6459561

    • @Darth3492
      @Darth3492 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Gunnar Lott großer Stay Forever fan hier :D witzig wen man alles hier so trifft.

  • @GrandTourer164
    @GrandTourer164 8 ปีที่แล้ว +502

    We SHOULD help refugees from war, we SHOULD NOT take in every single person without question with completely incompatible cultures and expect it to work smoothly.

    • @OmarIbnSayyid
      @OmarIbnSayyid 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +tony thomas very true. I live in the US for 23 years and I can tell that majority of Americans don't agree with you or me and their hatred to Muslim and Arabs justify the loss in soldiers and wealth and their Bush is a hero and will never see a day in any court, local or international .

    • @flaviospadavecchia5126
      @flaviospadavecchia5126 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In fact we don't. Do your research.

    • @rostamsunny8802
      @rostamsunny8802 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      tony thomas u speak sense and facts. And Saudi, us government, and their allies are the ones that financed this mess starting in 1980s. And today we see the results.

    • @OmarIbnSayyid
      @OmarIbnSayyid 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Dave Wilson it took me at least 10 years to understand fully everything about the American way of life and their complicated system and my American wife was a great help. I advise you to travel to Jordan where I come from and live there for 10 years to fully understand our way of life and to see for yourself if what you claim to be facts about our people and religion to be the truth or not. I think this is fair , right?. Your so called facts is so typical and very original.

    • @GrandTourer164
      @GrandTourer164 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tareq Naser Muslims were never the problem. There are plenty who don't take their religion seriously enough to follow it to the letter and kill gays and stone adulterers. Those that do should should not be allowed in a country that has laws against that. This was never a Muslim or middle eastern problem, this was always a fundamentalist problem, there's just too many fundamentalists coming into the EU. It's quite understandable that there would be concerns.

  • @Munksfan1
    @Munksfan1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nijean teaching herself English through days of our lives is fantastic. I wish the absolute best for her.

  • @rocketequation
    @rocketequation 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I watch this after 4days riot in Sweden. Any thoughts?

  • @lmihaig
    @lmihaig 9 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    You're an american and you complain about Europeans not wanting to take refugees, what has your country done to help them?
    Edit: He lives in America guys, hes an american citizen.

    • @d.h.1999
      @d.h.1999 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Asuna35 After 2 years of backround checks. Yes. Because it would be dangerous to let people from the middle east to New York without any backround checks. Wouldnt it?

    • @aromn
      @aromn 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Asuna35 bullsh*t

    • @BIIGtony
      @BIIGtony 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +Asuna35 Less then 1000, with a population of over 300 million. Germany is heading to 1 million with a population of 82 million.

    • @JigglyJuice-sl4mx
      @JigglyJuice-sl4mx 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +BIIGtony BULLSHIT

    • @d.h.1999
      @d.h.1999 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Turtles Are fun You wanted to take 10.000 till 2016 and raised it to 80.000 i guess.

  • @sumitsinghthakur2930
    @sumitsinghthakur2930 6 ปีที่แล้ว +480

    "An alien, the Queen and a real Human with feelings"..
    John Oliver is awesome.

    • @Valencetheshireman927
      @Valencetheshireman927 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I’m sure the Queen does have feelings

    • @robertnett9793
      @robertnett9793 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Two of those things are pretty simple to achieve.
      Err. One. One of course. My alien-overlords inform me, that I have to deny ther existence at all costs.
      So meeting the queen is possible.

    • @Onigirli
      @Onigirli ปีที่แล้ว

      Y-you mean a FELLOW real human with feelings, right?

  • @queerchaos13
    @queerchaos13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Oh my gods, my heart. That was such a sweet thing to do.

  • @Lobster_Dance
    @Lobster_Dance 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My mom has watched Days of Our Lives for 30 years and in that time I have caught more than a few episodes. I must say, that was the most plausible story beats, best acting, and most positive thing I have seen. I hope that is cannon in the series. I want my mom to talk to me about that little girl who fought her way to Germany on her soaps

  • @Sloth55Chunk
    @Sloth55Chunk 9 ปีที่แล้ว +160

    Think you missed the mark here, John. Its easy to sit there and criticize with your team of writers

    • @betty4774
      @betty4774 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      +Sloth55Chunk LIKE +100000000 lol I love John and the show, but is more complicated.... i hope he support the cause by receiving a few refugees in his own home... it´s a sad situation for everybody involved.

    • @PastaPastaPastaPasta
      @PastaPastaPastaPasta 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Sloth55Chunk Exactly. Not being emotionally involved in the situation causes better decision making.

    • @muffldgee6764
      @muffldgee6764 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +FuckGooglePlus Where do you live?

    • @McBain137
      @McBain137 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Matilada G. He's a troll. Let it go.

    • @Amy_Dunn
      @Amy_Dunn 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +FuckGooglePlus Way to go Donald Trump.

  • @Axelsypkenssmit
    @Axelsypkenssmit 9 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    At 6:35 I want to clarify that no one takes him serious here in the Netherlands

    • @mrborn2drink
      @mrborn2drink 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Axel sypkens smit he's at one fith of the votes
      source: peil.nl

    • @vincenzoemanuelkleinszig9094
      @vincenzoemanuelkleinszig9094 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      mrborn2drink yep also in my country far right is getting power that is quite sad

    • @ulrikebehrendt3572
      @ulrikebehrendt3572 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Axel sypkens smit obviously some do, but i agree, that this is very one-sided report

    • @maoschanz4665
      @maoschanz4665 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Axel sypkens smit > there are probably a big thousand of assholes who thake it seriously

    • @joriseversdijk3245
      @joriseversdijk3245 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      I do

  • @DoYouHaveTheBallz
    @DoYouHaveTheBallz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    actualmonster.com brings you to nbc's late night with Seth Meyers lmao.

  • @Triple109
    @Triple109 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Europe has the right to protect its borders.

  • @thestone9134
    @thestone9134 9 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    When discussing the migrant crises there so many issues that needs to be considered. Unfortunately, this week Last Week tonight failed to talk about some major issues. The criticism against the Balkan states and Hungary is valid but historically there have been a lot of religious wars in that area and that might still influence the people. Germany deserves a lot of credit for leading the way with humanitarian motives. My concern in my home nation of Sweden is this in September between 25000-30000 refugees arrived and towards the end between 1200-1500 every day and we are not prepared for these numbers. Yes we can argue that European nations are becoming more racist but I don`t really believe that the majority supports those views. Also, no one is prepared to deal with the real problem, the wars. Humanity I see has a responsibility to act decisively against these terror groups but since no western nation has been attacked no one seems to give a shit. Lastly a question? How many refugees are allowed to enter Russia or USA these are big, rich and powerful nations they should be able to do more I think?

    • @waywardchronicler6000
      @waywardchronicler6000 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +TheStone To be fair to John, its rather hard to address all the nuances of the situation in under 20 min. Still, I see your points. Ultimately, though, if we do nothing, these people will die. I find it very hard to justify letting that happen under any circumstance. Would one reject Jews fleeing from the holocaust, citing "cultural heritage" or some other nationalistic nonsense?

    • @apoorvswarup
      @apoorvswarup 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +TheStone you see the refugees (don't know how apt that definition is considering they can pretty much roam across Europe without any regard for laws) have been surprisingly given the absolute right to decide which country they go to (which is absurd if one considers the dublin agreement) Cut your benefits policy (like denmark) and you will see their numbers automatically go down. Its not whether these refugees are allowed to enter the US or Russia (am pretty sure no one would want to enter Russia willingly) but whether they themselves want to go there! The cultural and lingual integration aspects depend and I am not going dwell on that too much but I do hope the swedish government ensures that ghettos like rosengard aren't created and that the immigrants are truly integrated into the society.

    • @hudrowportnof4058
      @hudrowportnof4058 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Wayward Chronicler agreed. i think people should realize that people's personalities are created by their environment. everyone who's talking about how bad the behaviour of these people are should remember that, if we were born there, we would probably be their exact replica.
      while i do think this crisis is more complicated than what this episode talks about, people seem to miss the basic message of this episode, that we shouldn't leave these people to simply die. we at least owe that much as fellow human beings.

    • @andiefront9861
      @andiefront9861 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +TheStone I am 100% with you, this is not a topic to be discussed in less than 20 minutes. I now see a lot of other videos from a different perspective. I often thought that the US has some redicilous rules but maybe this was just one side of the medal - just as this video?
      Don't get me wrong, John Oliver is not my compensational-news or -panel show but this show was just very partial and did not make fun of real bad decisions.
      Like the budget cut in the refugee-camps around syria. The EU cut the budget from already-ridiculous 150 Mio to 75 Mio which was leading to starvation there. A lot of right-wing parties voted for this cut. I mean saving 75 Mio....that is nothing on a european level.

    • @apathy526
      @apathy526 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +TheStone Well, after you pass through this large number of refugees they will eventually be of a benefit to your country, and decades later they will be more proud to be swedish than being syrians. Syrians are genius hard working people, they will defiantly help build the country more than it already is.

  • @DainnGreywall
    @DainnGreywall 9 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    As a Danish guy... i'm appalled by what i heard from that polish guy... he DOES realise that polish workers are considered the european equivalent to mexican workers in America (that is being lazy, does half assed jobs and takes below minimum wage that no other human being would accept then send the money back to poland to their families)
    Oh and i'm also pissed at my government for their way of treating the migrants, it's been outright disturbing.

    • @Kalupz
      @Kalupz 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      +Dainn Greywall Danish ? are you stupid ? your government is the most reasonable one in the entirety of Europe

    • @SgtKaneGunlock
      @SgtKaneGunlock 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +VideoMultiTeam the point he is making is Mexican's and polish(the Stereotype not an actual person) are lazy and dumb

    • @grinn7611
      @grinn7611 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Dainn Greywall ooo fuck you, polish people are hard working, they pay taxes, they are not terrorists but every refugee has 6 children, no job, no education and wants to benefit, so fuck off, you are a dumb shit. Denmark does not deserve to Polish workers, Poland should change the government, because the Poles should not work for such morons as the Danes, we have stupid politicians.

    • @ingrumowicz
      @ingrumowicz 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Dainn Greywall dont mind him, he's a laughing stock in poland as well.

    • @rjfaber1991
      @rjfaber1991 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +VideoMultiTeam Yeah, that would be the only criticism I have of this LWT segment; it does rather imply that the opinions of fringe politicians (and I should know, I'm from the Netherlands) represent the general consensus in Europe, which is fortunately not the case.

  • @mildredcurbelo92
    @mildredcurbelo92 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This ending made me cry 😢 ♥️ That was lovely 💕 I hope Naim (I’m not sure about the spelling), helps out withthis difficult life experience to make this world better and bring us together as humans.

  • @abyssstyx
    @abyssstyx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Oh Oliver, you sure know how to press the right buttons, brought me to tears I hope she sees it.

    • @viktorajstein
      @viktorajstein 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DrTiggy666 By that logic there could be no political show that is good and not propaganda at the same time...sounds very stupid

  • @PCkitten
    @PCkitten 9 ปีที่แล้ว +215

    His worst show so far

    • @Hendlton
      @Hendlton 9 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      +PCkitten No, there's at least some truth in this, his one about defending "feminists" who just pretend to be victims on the internet was the absolute worst one.

    • @jhfridhem
      @jhfridhem 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Hendlton i am not even going to try to argue with you

    • @rjw19
      @rjw19 9 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      +Hendlton
      Yes. The feminist one was absolute horse shit.

    • @screamingphoenix8113
      @screamingphoenix8113 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +Hendlton Na, his wage gap video was even worse. At least cyber bullying is a sort of, kind of, almost, but not really at all, issue. The wage gap was just complete bullshit spewing out of Jon's mouth for 20 minutes.

    • @Neravine
      @Neravine 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Hendlton He was saying that they in no way deserved the abuse they got. They talked about video games and were threatened with a barrage of rape and death threats. If you think that's justifiable you're genuinely stupid.

  • @SorinVBogdan
    @SorinVBogdan 9 ปีที่แล้ว +263

    Haha Americans criticizing us here in Europe for "immigration issues". How about this then? Mexico :D

    • @leigh7569
      @leigh7569 9 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      +Sorin Vasile Bogdan I'm American and I agree. America's illogical fear of Mexican immigrants seems to parallel Europe's in many unfortunate ways.

    • @Curtis006
      @Curtis006 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Look at this interesting herring. It's red.

    • @boxtears
      @boxtears 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Sorin Vasile Bogdan He sounds British to me. You know... European.

    • @kingfuneral38
      @kingfuneral38 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We not kicking little kids though y'all sick out there

    • @Magoo832
      @Magoo832 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Tysheem Bryant No, instead you're shooting them

  • @user-pl9cd7wi4j
    @user-pl9cd7wi4j 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    props to James Scott and Days of our lives for doing this. small, sweet and effective

  • @austinteiflingman1345
    @austinteiflingman1345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Me: has never seen Days of our Lives
    Me during the ending segment: Tears of joy overs characters I don't even know

  • @WASTEOIDx
    @WASTEOIDx 9 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    the one thing I wish he would've talked about is the child rape crisis that's going on. it's being looked over alot but its going in in the middle East and now in Europe.

    • @Leatherbubba
      @Leatherbubba 9 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Well that would go against the narrative John is trying to shove down our throats, wouldn't it?

    • @ThePucko97
      @ThePucko97 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +chris gomez Oh you mean catholic priests, I agree we should lynch them!

    • @WASTEOIDx
      @WASTEOIDx 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      ThePucko97 no I mean the people that are posing as refugees and using the Koran to justify the rape of children

    • @ThePucko97
      @ThePucko97 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      chris gomez Any sources?

    • @dumbo800
      @dumbo800 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +chris gomez I didn't realize the Koran was more powerful than national laws on the matter.

  • @dogeshibe5833
    @dogeshibe5833 8 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    remember colonge new years eve
    (full of sexual assault)

    • @amitmysore5659
      @amitmysore5659 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      +Ray the Arcane Dragon they actually did air the story. I remember seeing this on the news but u fortunately it was not part of more than one news cycles I believe... Probably because people love slandering migrants

    • @timmaximilian9286
      @timmaximilian9286 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +A Mysore it just sells much better

    • @MayannHanna
      @MayannHanna 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You have the mentality of my sixth-grade teacher. "Oh, those two are misbehaving! Let's punish the entire class for it! Brilliant!"

    • @narkroshi88
      @narkroshi88 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      oliver juel
      5 people were raped, not "hundreds". And I'm not justifying any of it, I'm just pointing out how the media likes to make it out as if it was exclusively Muslims or migrants and then use that as reason to persecute all Muslims or shut out all refugees.

    • @MayannHanna
      @MayannHanna 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ray the Arcane Dragon True. There was even one American who joined those men.

  • @ezranian
    @ezranian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    At least the dude with the Feb. 19th, 2020 date is done waiting

    • @olotocolo
      @olotocolo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah, not sure he is going anywhere tho xD nt in 2020

  • @ux3476
    @ux3476 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This video did not age well