RE: My (probably unpopular) opinion on arab refugees
December 6, 2016 at 3:20 am
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2016 at 3:30 am by Autumnlicious.)
Some people wonder how this thread got dark.
I would like the opportunity to remind them that this thread started out on a "I know I should do $X, but Imma do $Y instead".
It started on a premise of bad behavior and will end that way. It doesn't matter the cause of the Syrian conflict or the responsibility the world has in it - all that matters to the (powerless and resentful of it) OP is that it stay away. That the chickens do not come home to roost, so to speak.
An excellent example of "Have your cake and eat it too".
Dr. Seuss really knew how to characterize that mode of thinking. Perhaps this can shock the conscience:
![[Image: NBzNetZ.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i.imgur.com%2FNBzNetZ.jpg)
It perfectly captures the "I don't have any responsibility to others in dire need" aspect of the OP. It's nothing more complex than that. It may be predicated upon a belief of "if no one cares for me, then no one should care for another", but at the end of the day it manifest the same way.
Indifference. To those in suffering, to those forced to abandon their homes. And anything to justify that indifference, like the unsupportable claim that the Syrian refugees are all able bodied males when a quarter of them are.
It's very cold and very human.
I would like the opportunity to remind them that this thread started out on a "I know I should do $X, but Imma do $Y instead".
It started on a premise of bad behavior and will end that way. It doesn't matter the cause of the Syrian conflict or the responsibility the world has in it - all that matters to the (powerless and resentful of it) OP is that it stay away. That the chickens do not come home to roost, so to speak.
An excellent example of "Have your cake and eat it too".
Dr. Seuss really knew how to characterize that mode of thinking. Perhaps this can shock the conscience:
It perfectly captures the "I don't have any responsibility to others in dire need" aspect of the OP. It's nothing more complex than that. It may be predicated upon a belief of "if no one cares for me, then no one should care for another", but at the end of the day it manifest the same way.
Indifference. To those in suffering, to those forced to abandon their homes. And anything to justify that indifference, like the unsupportable claim that the Syrian refugees are all able bodied males when a quarter of them are.
It's very cold and very human.
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