(December 9, 2016 at 9:51 am)alpha male Wrote: This isn't rocket surgery. Start with some empathy...I understand that things like the truck attack in France or the Boston marathon bombing make you wary of immigrants. Then move to the emotional plight of refugees, particularly children - Rhythm got into this, but peppered it with insults, so it wasn't effective. Only then do you go into statistics to try to show that the fear is insignificant. And never use the word xenophobic.
Okay. I understand that things like the Sandy Hook shooting, Dylan Roof, and the Colorado theater massacre make you wary of young white men...Oh, wait, they don't! Funny how that works...
And now I have to spell out the emotional plight of refugees? Just knowing that they're being massacred by their government and chemical weapons are being dropped on children isn't enough? This is why you're called unreachable.
You don't like having the word "xenophobic" being used to describe you? Sometimes you have to call a spade a spade. You know, if you don't like having these words used to label you, there's an easy solution for that...
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
