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2018-01-17 Home Front: Culture Wars
Sarah Hoyt: If the Sh*thole Epithet Fits, Wear It
h/t Instapundit
Let’s forget for a moment whether Trump ever called any countries at all sh*tholes. It seems as though the only report we have of this is Dick Durbin’s and Dick Durbin is known to be a fabulist.

However, let’s for a moment contemplate the reactions of the world to this word that might or might not have been said.

Let’s, in particular, contemplate the reactions of the countries that thought themselves insulted.

Take Haiti for instance. Anderson Cooper took offense on behalf of Haiti.

...But, Mr. Cooper, the fact that the people of Haiti have survived enormous adversity doesn’t make the place where they live not a sh*thole. On the contrary. It makes it a sh*thole that takes an enormous amount of strength and endurance to survive, but it is still a sh*thole.

And that’s why their people try to come here by the droves. But the fact that it’s a sh*thole or that its people are suffering doesn’t obligate us to take immigrants from Haiti. Because we are not a sort of charity shelter that takes in the deserving. We’re a country that takes in people who might become productive citizens. In those terms, Haitians should be judged as everyone else: "What do you bring to America, and what can you do for America?"
Just to put it in proper perspective: Sarah came to USA from Portugal. And since then published a whole bunch of highly regarded SF/fantasy/history books, which I heartily recommend
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-01-17 03:05|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Trust me, if any of the MSM went to Haiti, they would call it the same thing.

Me thinks this entire uproar is to hide something important and keep it off the front page, a big SQUIRREL if it were.

When's the DoJ IG report coming out again???
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-01-17 23:28||   2018-01-17 23:28|| Front Page Top

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