Let’s be honest here. Every generation has had its own ugly reaction to refugees, whether they are the Irish, the Vietnamese, the Cubans, or the Haitians, and those fears have been broadly unfounded.
In fact there was only one time in American history when the fear of refugees wiping everyone out did actually come true, and we’ll all be sitting around a table celebrating it on Thursday.
John Oliver gets it right, as usual.
https://youtu.be/os57v_OCEYg?t=229
- To my USAmerican readers, that is. Canadian Thanksgiving happened 6 weeks ago. ↩
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A great sentiment we should probably keep to ourselves in a time as such.
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