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Re:Donald Trump Calls for Barring Muslims from Entering U.S by zo1 on Monday December 07, 2015 @05:39PM (#10693340)
>"You shouldn't discriminate people based on religion"

Of course, I agree. But a discussion of it really isn't that simple. For one, people are already being discriminated on based on religion in the US on a massive scale, and it's codified in the law via tax-breaks for religious institutions. It's just not so clear when you're on the right side of the fence (i.e. a non-athiest). Not saying you should discriminate on religion, but to use the word "obvious" would be hypocritical as we aren't calling out the current leaders for religious discrimination. How about we use Trump's wrong viewpoints to spawn some discussion about making some changes to existing discriminatory policies?

>"It will affect exclusively innocent people, because terrorists are smart enough to lie on a simple yes/no question. Do I need to keep going?"

But your comments/observations as above are exactly what the thread needed when I came to it, to spawn some discussion. Was just pointing out that the thread at that point was really all about "attack Trump".

Re:Donald Trump Calls for Barring Muslims from Entering U.S by asddubs on Monday December 07, 2015 @06:02PM (#10693458)
I'm actually a believer that religions should get no special tax status whatsoever, so at least my beliefs are consistent I suppose. Still, I think this is playing a bit of the semantics game, as a very indirect discrimination like that is not on the same level as barring people from entry to a country based on fairly loosed belief based criteria (i.e. anyone who identifies as a muslim)