{"id":81497,"date":"2015-12-06T18:41:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T02:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81497"},"modified":"2015-12-06T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T02:43:09","slug":"obama-speech-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81497","title":{"rendered":"Obama Speech Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n

Doing my usual In-Depth Command-F analysis, I see the following text strings occurred X times:<\/p>\n

“refugee” – 0<\/p>\n

“asyl” – 0<\/p>\n

“migra” – 1, in noting that the San Berdoo victims included immigrants.<\/p>\n

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But just as it is the responsibility of Muslims around the world to root out misguided ideas that lead to radicalization, it is the responsibility of all Americans, of every faith, to reject discrimination. It is our responsibility to reject religious tests on who we admit into this country. It’s our responsibility to reject proposals that muslim-americans should somehow be treated differently. Because when we travel down that road, we lose. That kind of divisiveness, that betrayal of our values plays into the hands of groups like ISIL.<\/p>\n

Muslim-americans are our friends and our neighbors. Our co-workers. Our sports heroes. And, yes, they are our men and women in uniform who are willing to die in defense of our country. We have to remember that.<\/p>\n

My fellow Americans, I am confident we will succeed in this mission because we are on the right side of history. We were founded upon a belief in human dignity that no matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or what religion you practice, you are equal in the eyes of God and equal in the eyes of the law.<\/p>\n

Even in this political season, even as we properly debate what steps I and future presidents must take to keep our country safe. Let’s make sure we never forget what makes us exceptional.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, a few observations on the implicit ideology:<\/p>\n

– “American exceptionalism” mandates American national self-dissolution.<\/p>\n

– Civil rights require that we not discriminate against any foreigner in the world who wishes to move to America.<\/p>\n

– The ongoing massacres and expulsions of Christians in the Middle East can elicit our help, by, say, giving Christians the bulk of refugee spots, except in directly equal measure to our assisting the Muslim perpetrators with admission to America. The Christians of the Middle East have Christian Privilege.<\/p>\n

COMMENTS:<\/p>\n

* There are several things I like: #1 \u2013 He seems to admit now that the San Berdoo massacre was a terrorist attack, nothing else. #2 \u2013 He talks about monitoring people on terrorist lists buying semi-automatic weapons, which is good, surveillance or no. #3 \u2013 He talks about scrutinizing immigrants. Good. #4- He talks about putting limitations on access to weapons: fair enough, although here YMMV. But at least nothing about bans. #5 \u2013 He puts the ball squarely in the court of the Muslim community. #6 \u2013 He agrees that land wars would not be in our interests, but would play right into ISIL\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

* It feels weird to admit this, but the Nobel folks weren\u2019t entirely wrong.<\/p>\n

* How would Barack Hussein Obama know \u201cwho we are\u201d?<\/p>\n

* How many White Americans have even a single Muslim friend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes: Transcript Doing my usual In-Depth Command-F analysis, I see the following text strings occurred X times: “refugee” – 0 “asyl” – 0 “migra” – 1, in noting that the San Berdoo victims included immigrants. But just as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-islam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t