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Kevin Durant?'s avatar

“Now there’s a real-life war in Ukraine and a refugee crisis of more than a million people and we’re short-circuiting”

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It is in fact a refugee crisis. However, there is a segment of our population, about half of it, who insist that destitute people who don’t speak the language flooding into your country is a GOOD thing.

Those people don’t get to call it a ‘crisis’. According to them this is going to be a huge win for the economies of Europe. This is a windfall for them, supposedly.

Meanwhile I shall maintain the principled and correct position that I held during the Afghan refugee crisis. They should go to the surrounding countries. They should not come to the United States. I’m happy to have some Ukrainian refugees and Afghan refugees in the US but that shouldn’t be option 1A.

And now everyone who called you a white supremacist for not wanting unlimited Afghan refugees is oddly silent about bringing in Ukrainian refugees. Why aren’t we clamoring for planes full of Ukrainian refugees? It’s because Ukrainians are less likely to hate the United States. That’s why.

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Skeptical but Optimistic's avatar

BLM wasn't silent about the Cuban protest. They posted it on their website and social media. They do NOT support THAT kind of protest or refugee. Actually didn't Alexandro Makorkas stage a press conference telling the Cubans not to come? No one else. JUST the Cubans weren't welcome. Just kidding about this but could Mayorkas and Patrice Cullers hang out on the weekends?

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QX's avatar

I thought the Afghan refugees we were taking were those who worked for the US government and so were at risk of being executed by the Talibans. They were the ones who people here at home wanted visas issued. And tbh i think we owed them that as a moral obligation as well as maintaining our credibility for collaborators aboard. Ukraine is a different situation since we didn't have a 20-year long military industrial complex there with locals working for us officially against Russia.

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Skeptical but Optimistic's avatar

You good with the ones that came with their child brides? I'd say they were headed to a junior high near you but I doubt they are allowed to attend school. And yes they were found at our US bases upon landing here. Of course the interpreters should be allowed in. Thats why non administration groups are still working on getting them out of Afghanistan today.

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Brian Villanueva's avatar

To our elites: worth = intersectionality score. Afgans (Muslim, brown, 3rd world) lots of intersectionality points. Ukrainians (industrialized, white, Christian) no intersectionality points. That simple.

And that should tell you how much they'll protest when they start turning the thumbscrews on you.

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