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Have all Muslims been banned from the US? I thought it was only a set of countries draw up by Obama. Edit: Words are hard! Edit2: Yes, downvote me & upvote th
by discombobulate 10y ago
Have all Muslims been banned from the US? I thought it was only a set of countries draw up by Obama.
Edit: Words are hard!
Edit2: Yes, downvote me & upvote the hyperbole. Welcome to the post-fact world. All Muslims are banned. Trump is Hitler. The stock market's going to crash. Anyone right of Obama is racist scum who should lose their job. Etc.
- vinay427 10y agoI'm still trying to work out why many are so emphatic about the list being drawn up by Obama. It's not as if Trump signed a list without carefully reviewing and collecting evidence on the countries whose citizens' lives he would be directly affecting. I hope that wasn't the case, anyway...
- discombobulate 10y ago> I'm still trying to work out why many are so emphatic about the list being drawn up by Obama. It's probably an attempt to show the delta between Obama & Trump isn't as large as some imagine.
- redditmigrant 10y agoWhats the rationale for banning even one? Were there any actual threats? There were certainly no attacks by immigrants/refugees from those countries. According to you we should wait for things to reach peak bigotry before reacting. Would you have the same "oh no big deal" reaction if a single Christian country was banned mainly for being christian?
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- discombobulate 10y agoI don't think it's necessary to exaggerate the facts of the matter to argue against the policy. If anything, a falsehood weakens the position of the person making the argument. It's easier to defend the truth. It's more robust.