Senile UN official says Europe cannot be Europe without Mass Immigration

In the latest parade of stupidity out of the EU,  Secretary-General of the UN Antonio Guterres argues that the EU should embrace open borders on account of the fact that Europe was always home to a collection of ethnic groups.

Upon receiving the ...Charlemagne Prize... Mr. Guterres began his acceptance speech by warning the crowd that many Europeans were “turning inward, mired in the memory of a golden age that probably never was”.

I'm pretty sure Sweden had a Golden Age when it was a homogeneous nation  in which women and men could bathe in the same swimming pools at the same time, and women could walk around the streets at night without fear of being gang raped.

“Assimilating several cultures [s]and legacies was the starting point of European culture,” while pointing out that the Charlemagne Palace of Aachen “borrowed several elements of Roman and Byzantine civilization”.

European cultures were derived from the cultures of the various European tribes, sure. It does not follow that flooding Europe with Bantu and Arabs is going to result in a stable mix. Gauls and Teutons could barely tolerate each other, despite sharing similar genetic histories and religions. 

If Europe had not turned back the Moors and the Turks, it would not be Europe at all. It would, in all likelihood, be a backward region much like the Ottoman Empire, in which the advancement of the arts and sciences ground to a halt.

The idea of Europe “cannot be premised on ‘us’ versus ‘them” mentality, the Portuguese politician lectured, adding that there exists “no alternative” other than to open Europe’s borders to the third world. He also alleged that “closing our doors to asylum seekers does not protect but shame this heritage”.

There certainly is an alternative: keep them out. I thought Margaret Thatcher used to be mocked for this sort of idiotic 'there is no alternative' ploy.

“All societies tend to be, or are already, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, and multi-religious. This must be considered as a richness, not as a threat,” Guterres insisted

There's a very big difference between a Singapore or Japan, and a free for all in which half of Africa will suddenly show up on your doorstep. People throughout history have fought to maintain their cultures, as in the case of the Vietnamese resisting the French, Americans and Chinese.

It is interesting that Mr Guterres is implying that the First Nations in North America have no legitimate grievances, save for the use of violence that was used to dispossess them of their ancestral homelands. After all, the European invaders brought diversity to North America, which is a richness and not a threat.

"the Secretary-General emphasized what he referred to as the three unprecedented challenges” which “knock on our doors” at “this time of great geopolitical disorder”: xenophobic “hate speech” which is “fueling terrorism through social media”, human-created climate change, and mass immigration."

Because there is no better way to fight climate change than to allow tens of millions of people in Africa to migrate to Europe, where they will consume far more resources.