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Targetpractice1/13/2018 8:53:17 am PST

re: #203 FormerDirtDart

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I’m in a discussion with a wingnut on another board about Trump’s comments, and to my total lack of surprise, her position (in keeping with Faux) is that Trump’s sin was speaking his mind around Democrats because he should have known they’d tell the press. But that he’s right that the countries named are “shitholes” and the comments were totally not racist.

So I pointed out to her that he asked aloud why we’re not encouraging more immigration from white-majority nations like Norway, to which she tried the lame excuse that Norway has a lot of college grads that we’d want in a “merit-based” system like Trump’s asking for.

And so I took the time to quote from the LA Times about how the percentage of immigrants from African nations that have college degrees is not only higher than the US, it’s actually higher than those from Norway. She hasn’t responded back yet, but when she does I expect to get something about “chain migration,” refugees, or “criminal aliens” despite all three being cited after his comments went public as “what he really meant.”