Our anti refugee stance before WWll led to Anne Frank & others (1 Viewer)

[cr8f]

And others not getting a visa to escape Hitler.

This country has had a lot of anti refugee stances, Irish, Chinamen need not apply, but this one is grave. Most never knew how bad it would become but we are an immigrant country that can welcome people. So many states have a ton of room.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

I like how Holocaust analogies are now ok.

Ok why aren't the Christians the Jews in this scenario?

(Note I'm not against the refugees program but this is where that analogy takes you).

 

[PIK95]

Yup.

 

[Ookie Pringle]

How is life in Canada?

 

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So many states have a ton of room.

We can just stack them tall... like pancakes! There's tons of jobs and stuff in those rural areas, right?!

Where would they live? There's room! Let's just take away land from people and give it to em, since they don't have any money to buy their own...amirite?!

 

[IvanKaramazov]

cr8f, is there any chance you could switch sides on this one?

 

[PIK95]

So many states have a ton of room.

We can just stack them tall... like pancakes! There's tons of jobs and stuff in those rural areas. Let's just take away land from people and give it to em, since they don't have any money to buy their own...amirite?!

No.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

well we got a good book from Anne anyway

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

well we got a good book from Anne anyway

Except they cut the dirty parts out.

 

[bakes]

I like how Holocaust analogies are now ok.

Ok why aren't the Christians the Jews in this scenario?

(Note I'm not against the refugees program but this is where that analogy takes you).

Hah?

I have not seen anyone discussing anything about restricting Christians in any way shape or form; or any talk from Presidential hopefuls about IDing Christians. Nonchristian Syrians or other refugees on the other hand...

 

[TobiasFunke]

I like how Holocaust analogies are now ok.

Ok why aren't the Christians the Jews in this scenario?

(Note I'm not against the refugees program but this is where that analogy takes you).

Hah?

I have not seen anyone discussing anything about restricting Christians in any way shape or form; or any talk from Presidential hopefuls about IDing Christians. Nonchristian Syrians or other refugees on the other hand...

Also, the analogy here is not that the people opposing refugees are the Nazis/Hitler. ISIS are the Nazis/Hitler. That seems an entirely appropriate analogy to me. The people opposing taking in refugees would be the people who opposed taking in Jewish refugees in the runup and early stages of WWII due to their own ignorance and bigotry. Their ignorance and bigotry cost us an opportunity to save thousands of Jewish lives- a policy so obviously misguided that by 1944 a "Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government to the Murder of Jews" was produced- a report which finally shamed this country into reversing its horrible policy many years too late.

That's who the anti-refugee people are right now. Not Nazis, of course, but Americans who in 1939 favored acquiescence to the murder of Jews by the Nazis.

 

[Hov34]

well we got a good book from Anne anyway

Is this where I come with my Helen Keller jokes?

 

[MaxThreshold]

Yeah, okay. We can start by putting them up in camps around your house for now in a big circle. We'll just increase the circle as more come in that way you'll be close by when they need you.

Wait..what's that? Not in your back yard?

 

[TobiasFunke]

Yeah, okay. We can start by putting them up in camps around your house for now in a big circle. We'll just increase the circle as more come in that way you'll be close by when they need you.

Wait..what's that? Not in your back yard?

Camps around my house in a big circle seem unnecessary and impractical, especially since I live in a row house and therefore my house literally cannot be encircled. But I would be happy to see them take up residence nearby. I love where I live and would really enjoy seeing people from other cultures who have had a difficult time get to experience my awesome neighborhood firsthand after the horrors they've endured. And if their food is good, all the better.

Maybe you should stop assuming you know everything about everyone else? And I mean that in more than one way here.

 

[bakes]

Yeah, okay. We can start by putting them up in camps around your house for now in a big circle. We'll just increase the circle as more come in that way you'll be close by when they need you.

Wait..what's that? Not in your back yard?

I heard that they were going to be staging in Wisconsin.

 

[E Street Brat]

We'll take the s and the chinks, but we don't want the Irish!

 

[Henry Ford]

So many states have a ton of room.

We can just stack them tall... like pancakes! There's tons of jobs and stuff in those rural areas, right?!

Where would they live? There's room! Let's just take away land from people and give it to em, since they don't have any money to buy their own...amirite?!

There are 77,000 empty government-owned buildings in the U.S. that cost U.S. taxpayers $1.6 billion in upkeep.

 

[Skoo]

Yeah, okay. We can start by putting them up in camps around your house for now in a big circle. We'll just increase the circle as more come in that way you'll be close by when they need you.

Wait..what's that? Not in your back yard?

Good lord, I thought Republicans were the tough guys who weren't scared of anyone and the democrats were the weak ones.

This country was built by refugees for refugees.

Don't let Fox News' fear mongering get to you. Despite what they may have you believe, the sky is not actually falling.