Western immigration tolerance is contingent on refugees being Ukrainian and white

Evidence

It dissolved traditional divides on immigration across the continent and in the United States; immigration was no longer a wedge issue, at least for Ukrainians. However, it remained virulently divisive when the refugees were Arabs or Muslims, Black or Brown immigrants washed from their homelands by Western war or economic despair. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1195

Categorization

  • ADDENDUM: Directly parallels the class/identity signaling logic in the reader’s existing article ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — who counts as deserving is a matter of identity politics, not need.