Steve Jobs was actually the son of a Syrian immigrant, who coincidentally was a Syrian political refugee.
We’ve been here before (fear of the immigrant), but now we have a particularly toxic mix...Fear plus right wing politicians stoking that fear plus a 24 hour media machine broadcasting those very fears to America the Brave. Many people have pointed out the hypocrisy of the right. After 9/11 we renamed our national potato “freedom fries” in disgust at the French...who rightly argued that Iraq was a mistake and a potential quagmire that would only produce more terrorists. Who knew?
We also have more gun deaths every year (OMG, every month actually) than terrorist attacks, which they accept with a yawn and a shrug. Ooops, almost forgot to mention the mass shootings they’ve become so commonplace:
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We all know what Jesus (the middle eastern savior) would have done, but that’s past history, right Rupert?
In listening to radio interviews today, I was struck by the tone of the French people who were interviewed (aside from Marine Le Pen, of course). “We are not afraid” they said.
America? Be afraid, be very afraid. The right wing needs your fear because the demographics are against them.