Immigration, Sovereignty, & the EU | Philosophy Tube
Britain has a referendum on whether to remain part of the European Union or to Brexit, and there’s some very important philosophy to be done about sovereignty, racism, nationhood, and immigration.
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@ilokivi
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
@jonathandnicholson Please take note.
@BabakArdali
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Do you sometimes go back on to your old videos and think how accurate your explanations/ideas are?
@lain54831
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
here after “Stop The Boats”
@CBT5777
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Now they're putting unvaccinated people in camps.
@kimpalonen1978
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Above all, talking about immigration and poverty and society at large is about how we feel people should live their lives, within which conditions lives are going to happen and I think it's very telling in the way we speak about each other how we feel about people that aren't us. I've accepted racism and fascism as a fact of life because it's become evident to me that a lot of white people don't care about people that aren't white or profitable, so long as we're upfront about being absolute asshats and don't expect anybody to respect or admire us for that.
@chrisbovington9607
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
March 2021 now. Brexit sucks balls.
@phantomblot6072
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Most conservatives who discuss immigration will either tell you immigrants take "our" jobs or that they're unemployed and leech off "our" tax money, sometimes they use both arguments in the same discussion. There is no way for an immigrant to pass these criteria, they're just meant to justify bigotry.
@babbisp1
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
505 709 753
@cheese12893
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Ah such sweet naïve times…
@rampantmutt9119
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
People will die. That is not concerning. Genocide is concerning, but not death when it is just death
@dragunov815
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Hmm.
@Totoofwarful
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
The uk is a trash can fire that, like a lighthouse, illuminate the rest of europe and the eu.
On the path of what not to do.
Furthermore, as an european, i would like to thanks the subject of her majesty, for their noble sacrifice.
@kikimons99
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
I'm watching this in 2020 after brexit has happened, as a young immigrant living in the uk (2.5 years now). It is scary and sad.
@luna_moll
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
three years later the UK has, crashing and burning, left the EU. RIP Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland who never got a choice in the matter.
@TealWolf26
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Sovereignty: They're Other! Get them!
Citizens: They're Other? Oh okay, that's fine then. /pitchfork
@liammcguinness7824
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Brexit was about more than just immigration. What about restricting free trade, the European Army, sovereignty of our judiciary? I'm a protectionist, that's why I wanted Brexit.
@lynnixvarjo9150
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Yeah we still don't know either if the UK is going to leave the EU ….
@Beeblebroxologist
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Oh look, there's the future prime minister at 3:54. Also the following one.
@ΚώσταςΡωμ
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
This is extremely one sided. And of course you have the right to let die.
@shawnboucher546
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
"Absolutely all are welcome" Would you knowingly take monetary support from white supremacist and pedophiles? Just curious.
@javonfair
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Scout camp, lol
@daPawlak
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Time to get those damn Pollacks from UK!
Worked on me, left Sheffield in 2016 for Reykjavik, one of the best decisions I made. So… thank you Brexit?
Also, I honestly think Brexit is about wide-scope xenophobia, not just racism. There has even been the case that people from old colonial possessions of Britan are easier to assimilate than the East Europeans, a kind of 'I am not a racist' type of xenophobia.
@T.H.W.O.T.H
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Three years on, and as a nation we seem more out of control than we did before the referendum.
@MattMaraz
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
So you're linking controlled immigration to racism … Destroyed that strawman
@Kram1032
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
God this whole Brexit story has turned into a nightmare. Not envying you.
@dlon8899
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Let the the Welsh, the real natives of this Isle decide who stays on their land
@yurigagarin9765
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Like this comment If a video from 2019 brought you here.
@Nihilarity
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
I'm late to this one, but political and economic sovereignty were absolutely important issues in the referendum (and in euroscepticism in general over the last few decades, since long before Maastricht enshrined the right to free movement) and should not be dismissed so lightly as irrelevant concerns.
@sophia-helenemeesdetricht1957
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
I noticed with some dismay that you were very careful to make note of the distinction between the right to kill and the right to let die by tying them together. I get that you're trying to erase that distinction, but the fact that even has to be done is upsetting in a lot of ways. You hear a lot of the same things about sovereignty here in the US. and it's ignoring something that is at least in the US foundational to our entire way of life. Understanding that almost all of Europe considers itself to be post-christian, that is… not the way that we do things in the US. However if we in the US are going to hold ourselves to that standard, we should be better than having to make that distinction.
The plain fact of the matter is that if you let someone die and you had the ability to stop it, then you have killed them. The fact that the distinction even needs to be made is highlighting an ugliness in the soul of, at the very least, America.
@bunbunnybunbun
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
I still don't like the EU but if it can be of use I will use it.
@humble_roots
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Bro you are fucking phenomenal. You combat right wing poison in the most calm, mature and respectful manner imaginable. Well done as always, comrade!
@birkett83
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
You got through that without mentioning Children of Men?
@funkybobblehat
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
sovereignty? What sovereignty might that be? The Anglo Saxons were Germans, the Normans were French, the Tudors Were Welsh the Stuarts were Scots and George the 1st was a German that couldn't speak a word of English. haven't had sovereignty since 500ad and then it was for only 200yrs pre Roman Empire
@connorallen162
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
I feel like you're saying some super interesting things about "camps" but something kind of bothers me about that term. Maybe it's just because various summer camps were a big part of my childhood.
A word that might be better is caste?
Talking about the caste system in western societies seems like a very fruitful way to examine current issues, with physical camps (e.g. slave camps, labor camps, internment camps) as an acute way caste differences and conflicts manifest physically.
Otherwise I've definitely been challenged by things you cover and I hope to see more!
@ShufflinRhino
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Not quite correct that the government has total control over all areas of domestic policy; to take two, capital requirements (both the minimum and maximum) for banks is set by the EU, and in healthcare the Working Time Directive has not been good for the NHS.
@DeeCeeDees
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Once the EU is federalized and names itself as the United States of Europe (Full Economic Union) then you will lose the national sovereignty. Yes, it is true that NOW your government has the ability to control the law and public spending, but this will not be true in the future of Europe. This is what you cannot understand, this is only what us European patriots understand.
@hamzacise3350
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Waw
@joanofarc33
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
I like the way he uses hand quotes on the word “sovereignty” as if there is no such thing. Represented voted in by the population is to be sovereign, representatives deciding who can emigrate to their country and in what numbers. Yes you get to exclude people, if you didn’t you would lose the ability to control your borders and thereby the nation. Your explanation is entirely puerile.
@hamed8561
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 pm
So i was wondering how do the students fit in the equation? Those who are coming from the upper mid-class societies to study in UK.
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