12-11-2018, 12:16 AM
(12-10-2018, 11:43 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:Could you tell the difference between them just by looking at them?(12-10-2018, 11:07 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(12-10-2018, 06:09 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: If that's what you believe and how you view things, why do you support the idea of giving more Islamic's the right to immigrate to this country and support the right of Islamic immigrants to remain living in this country after seeing/experiencing what a few Islamic crazies have already done? Gee, I've never suggested we that we ban all Islamic's or round them all up and ship them back to where they came from.
We had a restrictive but generally fair immigration policy under Obama. Nothing that the current interloper does is in any way reasonable. Arbitrary discrimination against travelers and immigrants from a few Muslim countries that the Orange Menace doesn't do business with has nothing to do with a good policy to deal with crazies.
Unfortunately, too many who think in the old way believe arbitrary discrimination is reasonable. There are many who will not or can not distinguish between an Iranian who worked for the Americans when they were occupying Iran and some Islamist who drove an airplane into an American building. Once upon a time, in the days of "no Irish need apply", and it was hardly better to be black or Chinese, that way of prejudiced thinking was the norm. It is part of the reason I dislike the blue late night 'humor' that teaches stereotyping against reds.
Then again I see the threat lurking in any smile, in any humor. Did you know that some researchers believed the smile was originally a threat display, a bearing of teeth, a willingness to use force in a day when teeth were a threat? Only much later did external weapons like the hand axe or bows make teeth obsolete, not a threat. A bearing of teeth became sign that there was no serious threat present, that if it were one would get weapons at ready.