you want to continue being mentally ill (prejudiced/ media brainwashed to the point of delusional fear)
There's a lot of poor rhetoric in your post, but this one is very relevant. Are you aware that's an incredibly poor choice of words? Are you aware of what mental illness actually is? Do you think your toxic rhetoric (namely this bit) is, in any way, illuminating? Would you use "Muslim" as an insult...?
As for the greater topic (well, the portion about refugees), the biggest issue (in my opinion, and for what it's worth) with accepting refugees in America is not that they will end up committing acts of terror (that's incredibly unlikely, all things considered), but providing the means to support and enable them to succeed. I'm aware of how the current programs work, but I'm certain it won't be enough... Largely due to the hysterical hatred and outrage by conservative caricatured being regressive. Having refugees escape death only to end up being socially segregated is a very real problem. It happens among a very many types of minorities, most prominently black communities, and there's been attempts by progressive-minded groups since the founding of this country to eliminate these issues, but they stubbornly remain...
edit: Screw it.
Yeah but those politicians in the state legislatures wouldn't just ban refugees from syria for no reason right? Surely there must be some sense to it?
The most any state legislation can possibly achieve is withholding state funds for refugee assistance. The federal government is still within the right and still has the ability to provide refugees assistance in states run by xenophobes.
yall can keep posting to try to convince yourself that your supposed political representatives are taking actions that actually make sense (but they aren't and they never will), and keep embarrassing yourselves. ISIS will cheer you on, don't fear.
This doesn't make sense. Are you using the absence of a perfectly objective politician that always makes the best decision as an argument against... what? That progress can be made, that refugees can be assisted, that ISIS will collapse eventually?
You won't thank me for telling you, but yall conservatives are giving exactly the reaction ISIS wants
I disagree with nearly every conservative view point (regardless of whatever misconceived notions you may have), and as a result, their policies, but you do know you're making the same mistake your conservative caricature makes? I'll explain it: you're grouping all conservatives together as one collective, homogeneous group that makes unanimous and terrible decisions (and that's putting it nicely). Your conservative stereotype groups all Muslims together as one collective, homogeneous group of terrorists or potential terrorists.
you want to continue being mentally ill (prejudiced/ media brainwashed to the point of delusional fear)
I already highlighted the poor rhetoric here, but I'll elaborate. You paint your conservative tropes as being mentally ill. Accepting certain beliefs isn't mental illness. Accepting irrational beliefs isn't mental illness (or everyone on this planet would be mentally ill; hence why religion and social customs are exempt from psychiatric consideration unless said religious or social beliefs are acting contrarily to what is normal within the individual's group). Beliefs can change under a million different conditions.
Psychiatry has methods to determine if abnormal behavior constitutes mental illness. And yet still, many forms of mental illness caused by chemical or structural changes in a brain that have little basis on abstract factors like political opinions of some random senator for some random rural community. They cannot be educated away. They can't be willed away. They can only be treated (and that's if they can successfully be treated) via professional care. Even if these types of illness were triggered by trauma or stress or injury, mental willpower alone won't overcome them. Do you understand why your comparison is not only potentially offensive, but invalid as well?
a sheep (playing directly into ISIS hand)
Essentially: "You disagree with me so you're a sheep." Where's the mention of Fox News? That's a common boogeyman when mention "conservative sheep."
Again, you explicitly paint all groups identifying with a broad system of beliefs as evil. Do you not notice the problem?
feel free to be disgusted by your own human vulnerability to misinformation
Your conservative trope isn't the only one...
but feel free to be the globalized 2015 edition of the KKK.
Again, you explicitly paint all conservatives as a terrorist organization. I suppose you may claim it's a hyperbolic statement... But I repeat: do you not notice the problem?
You should be ashamed about your lack of feeling for humanity.
Emotionally charged statement. What purpose does this serve?
you know the assad regime is backed by christians right?
I'm very well aware. Christians also fund and enable the House of Saud. And they funded Al Qaeda. And on... and on... Hypocritical, yes, but it's not earth-shattering or by any means new.
