Re:Peter Thiel Speaks at the National Press Club – Live Stream
by ConfuciusSay02 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:52PM
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Trump wants to deport illegal immigrants, something that is actually following the law, and something that Obama has done by the hundreds of thousands (millions?).
Trump wants to temporarily suspend immigration from Muslim countries that are near ISIS controlled territory. Suspending immigration from dangerous hotspots is something that has been done regularly by previous administrations. Furthermore, non American citizens don't actually have any "rights" under American law.
Trump wants abortion laws to be decided by individual states. Women in each state will have their democratic voice about that issue at their state ballot box.
You can quibble about how he says things perhaps, but to say that his platform consists of removing rights of large cross sections of the American public is just wrong and ignorant.
Re:Peter Thiel Speaks at the National Press Club – Live Stream
by nolepointer on Monday October 31, 2016 @09:41PM
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>Trump is a man whose platform consists of removing the rights of large cross sections of the American public (Mexican-Americans, Muslims, women, etc.)
You cannot be serious.
Supporting someone like that makes you a supporter of state sanctioned violence against those people and I think every institution -- the media, law enforcement, universities, businesses, etc. -- have a responsibility to denounce this in the strongest possible terms.
This is not simply a disagreement on tax policy, it's about the fundamental human rights of millions of Americans. To see a supporter of this sort of hate receiving softball media treatment or condoned by respected organizations such as YCombinator is disgusting.