Immigration has been a
central issue in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign from the beginning. He
has maintained repeatedly that America should be exceedingly careful about
admitting refugees from places like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other Islamic countries
until they can be properly vetted so that we know who they are and why they
want to come here.
Trump wants to keep out radical jihadist Islamic terrorists –
bad apples, if you will -- who want to immigrate to America in order to kill
Americans. Hillary Clinton and her Democrat Party, in contrast, want to admit
hundreds of thousands of such refugees, 600,000 of them, I’m told, even though there
is presently no way they can be properly vetted. She’s willing to take the risk
that perhaps a small percentage of them – the bad apples -- might be
terrorists.
Trump’s logic is simple and straightforward enough; if 99% of
such 600,000 refugees are good, innocent and well intentioned people while only
1% are bad radical jihadist Islamic
terrorists, that would mean that as many as 6,000 radical jihadist Islamic
terrorists would be admitted and set loose upon the American homeland to commit
their jihadist mayhem and kill Americans.
Donald Trump Jr. wanted to explain that
logic in simple every day terms so he took to his Twitter account to make an
analogy with a bowl of candy – skittles. He pictured a big bowl of skittles and
tweeted:
“If I had a big bowl of skittles and I told you that just
three would kill you, would you take a handful?
That’s our Syrian refugee problem.”
It’s a pretty good analogy, isn’t it? It makes the risks quite
easy to understand, don’t you think? Perhaps that’s why Hillary and the
leftists were so outraged by it. “Trump Jr. draws outrage after likening
Syrian refugees to poisoned Skittles,” the headline declares.
If Trump Jr. had pictured a bushel of apples instead of a
bowl of skittles to demonstrate the risk of eating a bad apple, the leftist mob
would be howling just as much about his comparing the poor Syrian refugees to
bad apples.
“Oh and human beings fleeing oppression and terror aren’t
skittles,” tweeted ultra-leftist
celebrity, John Legend. “Man the rancid apple does not fall far from the
tree.” You see, it’s OK for him to draw an analogy to the Trump family as
bad apples – not people -- isn’t it?
“Disgusting,” tweeted Nick Merrill, a press secretary for Hillary Clinton.
“Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We don't feel it's
an appropriate analogy,” said Denise Young, VP of Corporate Affairs for Wrigley Americas, which
owns Skittles.
Well, yeah, skittles are candy and refugees are people, but what
does that have to do with anything? It’s an analogy, stupid. Surely it’s
nothing to be outraged about. Surely it makes no difference if it’s about
poisoned candy or bad apples, which is an analogy used by people all the time
to make a point about taking risks with people. You know, there are bad apples
out there.
Really, does anyone in his or her right mind believe that
Trump Jr. meant to imply that Syrian refugees aren’t people? Has it come to the
lowest point of the political abyss where anything the Trump campaign says is a
legitimate trigger for outrage?
I guess so. And the great American skittles flap is the
proof.
"It's a pretty good analogy, isn't it? It makes the risks quite easy to understand, don’t you think?"
ReplyDeleteIt's the trifecta winner: A terrible analogy, in service to an idiotic premise, being used to promote an evil policy.
So you conclude that poisoned candy does not compare with radicalized Islamist's; that ISIS is not trying to infiltrate Syrian refugees with terrorist’s hell bent on immigrating to America to kill Americans; and that it is evil policy to regulate immigration to try to keep the bad guys out. Is that it? You want open borders; no borders. You don’t care if criminals are allowed in; everyone should be allowed in. You don’t believe in national sovereignty. You’re a globalist.
DeleteOK, now I understand why you think the analogy is terrible, the premise idiotic and the policy evil.
"So you conclude that poisoned candy does not compare with radicalized Islamist's"
ReplyDeleteAs someone over at Austin Petersen's site pointed out yesterday, in order for the analogy to work the dish with three poison Skittles would have to contain 2,700 pounds of Skittles. Not 2,700 Skittles, 2,700 POUNDS of Skittles.
"that ISIS is not trying to infiltrate Syrian refugees with terrorist’s hell bent on immigrating to America to kill Americans;"
They very well may be. Nothing Trump has proposed would stop them from accomplishing that goal.
"and that it is evil policy to regulate immigration to try to keep the bad guys out"
It is evil policy to regulate immigration, full stop.
So, you keep the doors to your own home unlocked and you welcome, with open arms, anyone who walks in the door at any hour, any day?
DeleteNope.
DeleteBut I don't own the large tax farm called "the United States of America" by the street gang that runs it.
Neither do you.
If you want everyone else to beg your permission to travel across it, perhaps you should be willing to take over the mortgage first. Hey, it's only $20 trillion, right?
One percent of 600,000 refugees is 6,000 potential terrorists. Isn't that a good enough analogy for you?
ReplyDeleteTrump has proposed not letting them in legally so they would have to come in illegally and that is not likely.
So you would let everyone in, whether they have leprosy, TB, AIDS; whether they are murderers, rapists, child molesters, whatever; you don't care who immigrates to the USA. That's a pretty extreme position, Tom
"One percent of 600,000 refugees is 6,000 potential terrorists. Isn't that a good enough analogy for you?"
ReplyDeleteNo. The actual numbers seem to be more along the lines of 1/100th of 1%, tops.
"Trump has proposed not letting them in legally so they would have to come in illegally and that is not likely."
Right, because only a few million a year do so.
"So you would let everyone in ... That's a pretty extreme position"
Actually it's the most moderate position there is: The position that until and unless someone commits a crime with a victim, where they go is none of my fucking business. Or yours.