Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Alternate Facts Ignore Violent White Nationalists

So he did what he promised to do, he (hopefully) temporarily banned Muslims from entering the country unless they have a green card. Currently mass chaos is ensuing and a lot of it is completely understandable. Now why are these people being temporarily banned from entering the United States? Apparently, people are refugees from these six or seven, predominantly Muslim countries are not allowed in this country because they are too violent and people feel like Islamic Extremists will fall through the cracks and start mass shootings and bombings like they "have" in European countries. If that was one hundred percent true, then that would be a valid reason to temporarily ban members of a certain religion and I am not saying that some of these people aren't violent, but Muslim terrorists that have committed mass crimes were either born in this country or they were from the countries where people weren't banned.

Now I have talked to a lot of Conservatives that are completely for a temporary ban who have told me a broad arrangement of things. The biggest one is that they want me to look at how bad the crime rate has risen in Europe to show that refugees and immigrants are a bad idea. I look at that and think to myself, yeah, that is true, it is pretty bad in those areas and the crime rate has doubled and there are only 2% of Muslim increase in those specific countries. The biggest worry is that these people are going to come to the United States and bring in Sharia law and then rape women because it is somehow acceptable in their cultures. Okay, that is a legitimate concern, but the problem is that we don't live in Europe. Things that are not acceptable here are acceptable there and the other way around. Our governments are way different, the courts are different, the police is different, public schooling is different, it might be a continent dominated by White people, but that doesn't make it the same. Someone once told me that Japan has banned Muslims too and it works for them as their crime rate is low. Well, Japan has a ban on gun and their crime rate is very low. Lets just ban guns so that we can be the same as Japan. Here is the problem, the same people who want to ban Muslims do not want to ban guns, which is pretty hilarious to me. You want to ban things that you do not like, but you do want to ban things you like, even though it makes other countries safer.

Again, there is a stereotype out there saying that Muslims are violent and are going to destroy America. To me, people who are saying that are people who want their culture to run the country and they feel like if there are other people who believe something different and have different culture, then their way of life will be destroyed. The reason why I know that is because we have people saying things about people that they probably have never met. When living in the bay area, I knew a ton of Muslims. I went to school with them, I went over their houses and at no time did I ever feel threatened. Their parents were friends with my parents and they treated me like family whenever I went to their houses. I never experienced any violence as a Jewish American, their so called "enemy" and my parents did the same with their kids. So no, I haven't experienced that and I think that certain people need to experience the positives of Islam before rushing to a complete judgement for whether they are good or bad people.

However, here is the problem, in a world of "Alternate Facts" there have been two recent vandalisms of Mosques in North America over the past eight days and one of them was a shooting. Now I have seen and heard very little from the mouths of Conservatives, especially from FOX News that came out that and said that the shooter was a Moroccan Muslim, which wasn't true, thanks guys, I thought you guys weren't a "fake news" organization. This turns the whole thing on it's head because now it is the White Nationalists that support Donald Trump that are doing the vandalism and committing the crimes and there are people that are denying the existence of this phenomenon because it isn't being reported.

I know what you are saying, "you're just a liberal that is anti-FOX News." On the contrary, I dislike all forms of mainstream media including CNN, MSNBC, and ABC too. Just because I dislike FOX News more doesn't make it any less inaccurate than the others. Not to mention, you probably complain about the others, so lets stay practical and honest, you don't care about accuracy because you have beliefs and you are probably partisan too, so lets not play this "you're being bias" game. With all of this said, since I have just proved that every ethnicity, every religion, and every race has a tendency to be violent, lets just let NOBODY in. Whites, blacks, Asians, Indian people, Middle Eastern people, and Latin American people, lets just keep all of them from coming in. If we are in it for "public safety", then lets keep the public safe, by banning all of the people. However, that will never happen because certain someones are still in denial about right and wrong. And while I could care less if Muslim refugees come or not, lets be honest here, they aren't hurting us, so lets put down this "they're dangerous" rhetoric because it isn't 100% accurate and it is destroying everything that we as a nation believes in.


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