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Is your position that immigrants should be expedited through the immigration process?
by atomical 10y ago
Is your position that immigrants should be expedited through the immigration process?
- estsauver 10y ago... I think those who risked their lives by being translators for our armed forces are probably due a bit of a fast lane.
- celticninja 10y agoI think it's actually part of the deal when they give you the job, if not specifically then it is certainly alluded to.
- steveklabnik 10y agoYou'd think that, but it's not actually what happens a lot of the time, in my understanding. John Oliver did a whole show about it.
- atomical 10y ago... I think you should reread my comment because it has nothing to do with the armed forces.
- atomical 10y agoIt is great you guys are down voting me when the guy above me is being incredibly smug. Thanks for showing your true colors.
- ry_ry 10y agoI don't think that's the case, I'm sure it wasn't meant like that, but your original reply did seem a little... provocative? Added to that, it's generally bad form to discuss the meta without adding to the conversation, which i suspect your post above picked up downvotes. I would expect to get downvoted for this reply too tbh. It's not a smugness thing, it's too avoid conversations getting bogged down in this sort of tedious exposition. For what it's worth, I didn't downvote your post, if it makes you feel any better.
- atomical 10y agoPlease describe how it was provocative.
- ry_ry 10y agoI obviously don't know why everybody who downvoted you did, and I don't have the inclination to argue about it - I genuinely don't care that much - but... "Is your position that immigrants should be expedited through the immigration process?" Could be construed as a fairly challenging stance, given the very direct nature of your request for clarification and the endpoint you extrapolated. Face to face, asking that with a raised eyebrow or a smile wouldn't seem overly challenging, but plaintext loses any nuance and much of its context.
- Muuuchem 10y agoReread the OPs post then because it did
- atomical 10y agoReread it again.
- archvile 10y agoWhy wouldn't they have that information easily available on file then? Why the whole detaining process for 4 hours when it should have been something easily checked?
- sangnoir 10y agoDid you miss the part where gp said they were translating for the US Army?
- atomical 10y agoMy comment doesn't reference the GP. Did you miss that?
- celticninja 10y agoFor a country that talks the talk when it comes to praising your service men and women, it doesn't always walk the walk, especially when those people are brown and/or non-christian.
- atomical 10y agoThe exception makes the rule. America is still great for people of all color.
- celticninja 10y ago"The exception [that] proves the rule" is a saying whose meaning has been interpreted or misinterpreted in various ways. Its true, or at least original, meaning is that the presence of an exception applying to a specific case establishes ("proves") that a general rule exists.
- atomical 10y agoThat's exactly the meaning I am conveying.
- sctb 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14230478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14230478 and marked it off-topic.
- atomical 10y agoThe post I was responding to was off-topic as well.