On refugees

Nov 20, 2015 18:14

Well, I went off on one. Below are my thoughts responding to a couple of people in a college friend's Facebook entry, who were knee-jerking about Syrian refugees. Slightly edited for coherence ( Read more... )

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dreamer_easy November 20 2015, 07:16:27 UTC
It's the Walmart bombing which really puts it into perspective. *eyes point in seperate, random directions*

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lferion November 20 2015, 18:41:51 UTC
Thank you for saying this.

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mosinging1986 November 21 2015, 17:54:32 UTC
(Here via LJ Home Page)

For context, one person said "Assume 1% of these refugees has lepresee (sic) and we'll see a different response on whether they accept them without qualification into their own homes", while the other said " It doesn't say 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,your suicide bombers '. ISIS has already stated the goal of infiltrating the refugees. How stupid are we?"

Absolutely right! But I bet the rest of this posts mocks and condemns this common sense view. That's why I have no interest in reading it.

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