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When he complained, rightwingers sent him homophobic taunts online.
Black gay Republican podcaster Rob Smith has claimed that “white supremacist” members of his political party called him “fa**ot” and the n-word during his Sunday night attendance of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest event in Phoenix, Arizona. Though Smith posted a video of his brief interaction with the aggressors, commenters on X (formerly Twitter) noted that the video didn’t feature the n-word and mocked Smith his membership in an anti-gay political party.
“Last night in Phoenix, I was confronted and surrounded by some White Supremacists that don’t like gays or blacks in the Republican Party,” Smith wrote in a December 18 post on X. “They shouted ‘nr’ and ‘ft’ at me to make their point. However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever.”
Try to burn a Bible in many small towns in America, or most of Europe. Turns out when you’re intentionally an asshole to a bunch of people about something they’re passionate about, bad things can happen to you.
I don’t support burning any books
I wouldn’t know what happened. Because luckily I’m not an american. But the difference here is how Norway is my birth country, where my ancestors have lived since humans first came to this area. Yet I am not free to critizise an invasive religion, which has never been here before, which threatens the peace and prosperity we enjoy. Of course I don’t like it. I doubt you would either
This is meaningless.
Do you think I don’t disagree with the religious preferences of some people? Because I do. They’re still allowed to believe whatever they want.
They’re a racist. That’s the end of it. They’ve convinced themselves that such people are lesser people and not products of their environment that has largely been out of their control.
They might be, but I shouldn’t have to deal with them, when these circumstances are not my fault, and taking them in would destabilize my own country. Islam is a fucked and evil ideology. I’d rather have them fix their problems in their own country, than having them export their instability to mine.
Immigrants, especially those from Africa and the Middle East are topping the rape statistics.
Sweden (my neighbour country) literally had to ask the military for help, dealing with violent criminal gangs from the immigrant community.
Out of all the fairy-tales of religion, it’s my sincere hope that Karma and Reincarnation happen so that such people can be birthed into such circumstances they naively criticize to see for themselves. The racist to fill the shoes of a Syrian refugee, for instance.
And again I’ll say, try to live among them yourself. The immigrant situation in USA is very different than in Europe, were the immigrants in USA actually do less crime than the americans themselves, were in Norway they do more than twice as much crime.
Besides that, their culture is simply incompatible with ours. It would be better if other arabic/turkic/islamic countries took them in. Why should they travel entire continents, to an entirely different culture, when a neighbouring country is a far better fit?
I’ll happily take in Ukrainian refugees, simply because we have a common dangerous neighbour (Russia), and their culture is more compatible with ours.
With respect you don’t have an understanding of the immigration rhetoric in America. If you did, you’d know that the conservatives are echo the exact same arguments you’re making here.
Yes, broken people subject to war, poverty, and lack of education do tend to as a group be less stable. We all know that. That’s the toll of regional instability and a price the world must pay to the piper.
The vast, vast majority assimilate quite effectively.
Sounds like Norway needs reforms more than these people need to stop coming.
What reforms exactly? It’s not like there hasn’t been attempts to integrate them. It’s just the way Islam works. Maybe we could treat Islam like it is, a dangerous cult, and criminalize it? But then we would violate their “freedom of religion”. There’s no easy solution other than closing the border.