MLD Woody Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 "Skittles are candy. Refugees are people," said Mars Inc spokeswoman Michelle Green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cysko Kid Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 I definitely see both sides of this issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted September 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 The fact that he was accused of plagiarism just makes it even funnier https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/778030543803822080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbedward Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 I fail to see how this is a big issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 But Skittles probably won't kill you. W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted September 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 I fail to see how this is a big issue Not that it is or is not... ... But no shit you don't. You're heads too far up Trump's ass regardless. Statistically it's false, it's basically fear mongering, and he even plagarized it. Not a good luck IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cysko Kid Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 Is it fear mongering though? There's been like six instances of islamic attacks this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbluhm86 Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 At least those skittles aren't perverted M&Ms... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbedward Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 There's an attack on a weekly basis pretty much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted September 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 At least those skittles aren't perverted M&Ms... Yep, this also the side story where this analogy ties back to that nonsense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 I fail to see how this is a big issue Me too. Of course it was on NBC nightly news who daily runs any negative story about Trump they can find. It was a simple analogy which the libs cry about with their faux outrage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted September 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 Not to go full hippy/man of the people here, but it is an analogy equating refugees, mostly women and children, to candy. It is statistically incorrect. And it's just an attempt at fear mongering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 Not to go full hippy/man of the people here, but it is an analogy equating refugees, mostly women and children, to candy. It is statistically incorrect. And it's just an attempt at fear mongering The point of the analogy is correct. Even if most of the refugees are not terrorists there will be a few. The real scandal is not the skittles analogy but the .05 percent of the refugees they are letting in are Christians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicIsForSquares Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 The point of the analogy is correct. Even if most of the refugees are not terrorists there will be a few. The real scandal is not the skittles analogy but the .05 percent of the refugees they are letting in are Christians. So the real scandal is not that there could be bombers that effect everyone but that Christians are being shafted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted September 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 The point of the analogy is correct. Even if most of the refugees are not terrorists there will be a few. The real scandal is not the skittles analogy but the .05 percent of the refugees they are letting in are Christians. Which seems to also have a lot to do with statistics. If you're using that analogy, you do more dangerous things each day. A lot of sites have broken this down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 So the real scandal is not that there could be bombers that effect everyone but that Christians are being shafted? I didn't say that (you did...making a straw man argument) I said there is another part of the story that is not getting any media coverage and that is that only .05 percent of the refugees are Christians who are in particular a persecuted group in that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted September 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 You said "the real scandal" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 You said "the real scandal" Referring to the "scandal" of using a skittles analogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbedward Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 Which seems to also have a lot to do with statistics. If you're using that analogy, you do more dangerous things each day. A lot of sites have broken this down Right - only some are rapists and terrorists. But statistically you're highly unlikely to get raped or killed by a refugee so who cares. People will get raped and killed by refugees - but not enough for it to matter. Idk if that applies to Sweden though everybody gets raped over there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbedward Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 And I saw somebody say "I would test all the skittles and only eat the good ones" Yea well, I would too - but I don't have the equipment. We can't even check the social media accounts of people coming over from non-war torn places with stable governments (like Saudi Arabia/Pakistan + Tashfeen Malik) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 if a dem used that analogy. it would be funny to the left. I suppose he should have used green marbles. but the left would have feigned offense over that, too. Like if a republican said "I ain't no ways tiarred.." like hillary did in pandering to southern blacks.... leftist blacks would have been outraged at the racist cheap pandering by the republican. but let hillary do it, and they laugh and applaud. cause the dems give out free stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicIsForSquares Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 I didn't say that (you did...making a straw man argument) I said there is another part of the story that is not getting any media coverage and that is that only .05 percent of the refugees are Christians who are in particular a persecuted group in that area. "The real scandal is not the skittles analogy but the .05 percent of the refugees they are letting in are Christians." This has more to do with demographics and Syrian politics and less to do with something intentional by the U.S. government. Christian Syrians were never persecuted by the government. The Syrian constitution made them a protected class in 1973. Alawites (the Muslim sect that Assad is a part of) and Christians both are minorities in Syria. Since they have been well protected from persecution (up to the civil war), I can guarantee you that they felt an obligation to serve and defend the Assad government. If they bail, then the Christians and Alawites who defended them will 100% be slaughtered. They aren't going to leave so they should be under represented in refugees when they represented less than 10% of the population before this all popped off and are likely fighting as government troops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbedward Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 Well technically being Christian is fine amongst isis and the rebels - you just have to pay a fat ass tax, can't worship in public or wear any christian symbols, etc. Though if Assad's regime falls and they consider Christians supporters of Assad then they'll slaughter them all anyway. The Alawites are fucked regardless, if Assad falls they're getting slaughtered no matter what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 "The real scandal is not the skittles analogy but the .05 percent of the refugees they are letting in are Christians." This has more to do with demographics and Syrian politics and less to do with something intentional by the U.S. government. Christian Syrians were never persecuted by the government. The Syrian constitution made them a protected class in 1973. Alawites (the Muslim sect that Assad is a part of) and Christians both are minorities in Syria. Since they have been well protected from persecution (up to the civil war), I can guarantee you that they felt an obligation to serve and defend the Assad government. If they bail, then the Christians and Alawites who defended them will 100% be slaughtered. They aren't going to leave so they should be under represented in refugees when they represented less than 10% of the population before this all popped off and are likely fighting as government troops. The State Department Turns Its Back on Syrian Christians and Other Non-Muslim Refugees Over the past five years of Syria’s civil war, the United States has admitted a grand total of 53 Syrian Christian refugees, a lone Yazidi, and fewer than ten Druze, Bahá’ís, and Zoroastrians combined. That so few of the Syrian refugees coming here are non-Muslim minorities is due to American reliance on a United Nations refugee-resettlement program that disproportionately excludes them. Past absolute totals of Syrian refugees to the U.S. under this program were small, but as the Obama administration now ramps up refugee quotas by tens of thousands, it would be unconscionable to continue with a process that has consistently forsaken some of the most defenseless and egregiously persecuted of those fleeing Syria.... According to a recent UNHCR posting, 19,000 Syrians picked straight from “refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan” have received U.N. approval and are awaiting resettlement in the U.S. In October, President Obama ordered their expedited admission. Without further action, however, only token numbers of non-Muslim minorities will be among those rescued. George Carey, former archbishop of Canterbury, called it right about the Christian refugees, and his words equally apply to Syria’s other non-Muslim communities: They are being “left at the bottom of the heap.” Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426419/christian-refugees-syria-religious-minorities-united-states-resettlement-policy Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426419/christian-refugees-syria-religious-minorities-united-states-resettlement-policy Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426419/christian-refugees-syria-religious-minorities-united-states-resettlement-policy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicIsForSquares Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 So the State Department depended upon the UN to do their jobs correctly and they didn't. So other than trusting the UN (we shouldn't), did the U.S. government actively try to exclude people who aren't Muslims? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 So the State Department depended upon the UN to do their jobs correctly and they didn't. So other than trusting the UN (we shouldn't), did the U.S. government actively try to exclude people who aren't Muslims? First I think the numbers speak for themself. 99.5 percent of refugees are Muslim and only one half of one percent are Christian. America is about to accept 9000 Syrian Muslims, refugees of the brutal war between the Assad regime and its Sunni opposition, which includes ISIS, Al Qaeda, and various other militias. That number is predicted to increase each year. There are no Christian refugees that will be admitted. Why? Because the Department of State is adhering with all the rigidity of a Soviet era bureaucracy to the rule that only people at risk from massacres launched by the regime qualify for refugee status. The rapes of Christian women and the butchery of Christian children do not count. No matter how moved Americans were this Christmas season by the plight of their fellow Christ followers in Syria and Iraq, no matter how horrific the visuals of beheadings, enslavement, and mass murder, the Christians fleeing death do not engender the compassion of this president. The Christians are being raped, tortured, and murdered by militias, not by the Syrian government. This technicality condemns them to continue to be victims without hope. And this technicality is being adhered to with all the tenacity with which President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s State Department manipulated quotas and created subterfuges to keep out the Jews fleeing the oppression of Nazi Germany. Obama no more wants the Middle East’s Christian refugees than Roosevelt wanted Europe’s Jewish refugees. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/228670-no-room-in-america-for-christian-refugees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted September 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 Right - only some are rapists and terrorists. But statistically you're highly unlikely to get raped or killed by a refugee so who cares. People will get raped and killed by refugees - but not enough for it to matter. Idk if that applies to Sweden though everybody gets raped over there. We could also go through all of the ways you're more likely to die from than from terrorism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Post Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 Syrians taste like skittles. Mmm love the shit brown ones that don't have any money and are subjected being lured financially to kill me. Awesome flava. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 Cheeto' filled chicken fries, disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Post Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 Cheeto' filled chicken fries, disgusting.They are disgusting and we sell the fuck out of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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