Our national policy is deliberate cruelty to refugees. There's a part of me that believes, or wants desperately to believe, that if enough of us will just understand this, it will stop. But part of me fears this is exactly what many of us want.
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I'm too busy worrying about how to make this be over as soon as possible than I am to worry about what to do when this is over.
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Yes, but I'm also concerned that the guilty hear now that we're not going to forgive and include them in our future.
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Sounds like McCarthyism
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Hardly. The people targeted by McCarthyism were not guilty of unleashing nazism & the early stages of genocide.
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I'm all for stigmatizing the Stephen Millers and Milo Yiannopouloses of the world, but there's an overwhelming majority of casual racists that enabled this whole thing to happen. That has to be combatted by changing attitudes, not punishment.
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That's why I said cutting off their lines of influence over the future rather than cruelty against them.
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I'd even fucking gladly pay exorbitant taxes to keep them home, out of public sphere, and content until they die off.
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