EU official's daughter raped and murdered by "refugee"

[John V]

So, you admit that this is an emotional issue for you, not a rational one.

It's both, and I "admitted" the emotional aspect some time ago.

Just is someone supposed to reach you on an emotional level with this issue?  Hold your hand and pretend that you're not being xenophobic?

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.

[Aegon]

You've already admitted you're uninterested in statistics.  Insisting on sticking with feels over reals is pretty much the definition of unreachable.

Huh? People can reach each other on an emotional level. Happens all the time. Hillary had better command of detailed facts in the debates, yet lost the election.

And it was a....good thing that people voted for the candidate who didn't know what he was doing?

[Amarok]

Huh? People can reach each other on an emotional level. Happens all the time. Hillary had better command of detailed facts in the debates, yet lost the election.

So, you admit that this is an emotional issue for you, not a rational one.  Just is someone supposed to reach you on an emotional level with this issue?  Hold your hand and pretend that you're not being xenophobic?

I'd say having a better command of detailed facts is a gross understatement.  It was more like her opponent didn't care if anything he said was true and peddled obvious falsehoods and unproven conspiracy theories as truth.  And you wonder why people say Americans are stupid...

Agreed the idiocy that were not suppose to call bigots bigots because they will get butt hurt and allow innocent people to die do to the fact we were mean to them is just amazing

and as I said before trying to get xenophobe pricks to empathize with immigrants is like trying to draw blood from stones .We have stated the facts proved them irrational there hurt nerves interest no one

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So, you admit that this is an emotional issue for you, not a rational one.

It's both, and I "admitted" the emotional aspect some time ago.

Just is someone supposed to reach you on an emotional level with this issue?  Hold your hand and pretend that you're not being xenophobic?

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.

Nope how about we beat over the head with the facts and if that doesn't work rightly call you xenophobe idiots who's whole case is built on irrational fear and stupidity because no one gives a fuck if your feelings are hurt there are more important things at stake then your ego

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Only children and simpletons rely on emotional pleas xenophobes need to put on there big boy pants

[The Grand Nudger]

Come on now Orichi, the deplorables are only deplorable because they really need a friend.  

Here we go, I hope this suddenly solves all of their problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEkIou3WFnM

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I feel like it might be useful to point out that the only emotion at play here is "eww, refugees".  Some emotional issue, some emotion.

[Amarok]

Come on now Orichi, the deplorables are only deplorable because they really need a friend.  

Here we go, I hope this suddenly solves all of their problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEkIou3WFnM

indeed they'll stop being bigots as longs as we are nice to them yup that will work

in other news isis will stop trying to kill us all if we just stop demonizing them and send them flowers

[Faith No More]

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...

[John V]

And it was a....good thing that people voted for the candidate who didn't know what he was doing?

Trump knew what he was doing. He knew that command of the detailed facts wasn't the most important thing.

[The Grand Nudger]

He sure as hell knew what you wanted to hear, didn't he?  That's the funny thing about deplorables, their ticks make them hilariously easy to manipulate. That's how the terrorists won, too. Gratz.

[John V]

Nope how about we beat over the head with the facts and if that doesn't work rightly call you xenophobe idiots who's whole case is built on irrational fear and stupidity because no one gives a fuck if your feelings are hurt there are more important things at stake then your ego

Consider how that worked for Hillary. If she had said something like With terrorist attacks here and in Europe it's understandable that people are scared, so we need to work with them to understand the actual magnitude of the risk involved, instead of basket of deplorables, she might have won.

[The Grand Nudger]

Oh, if she'd said that, the deplorables would have voted for her?  Stop, lol.

You just want to be mollycoddled.