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Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by 654869435418647 on Saturday January 28, 2017 @06:00PM (#13510078)
Roughly half. The point is still valid and it's important not to disregard the momentum of that segment of the country
Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by becarefulyo on Saturday January 28, 2017 @06:03PM (#13510099)
Nazism should be swiftly kicked in the ass whenever it rears itself.

This is naked white supremacism. For as much bullshit as we've heard about political correctness, why not just come out and say this is straight up religious and racial discrimination?

Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by cmurf on Saturday January 28, 2017 @07:06PM (#13510575)
The easy time to do this was the election. It is much harder to deal with now.

The president's Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor is a white nationalist, who used to run Breitbart.com, where there is a distinction made between white supremacists and white nationalists (I cannot explain the distinction, for I don't see one). A site all about how awful multiculturalism is, separation of races is necessary for the survival of a country, etc.

Without letting down your guard or concern, my advice is to moderate it with another possibility. The U.S. has much better insulation geographically than European countries, and a history that involves worse rhetoric and divisiveness and we've survived. There might be a pro where the whole world sees what even a little bit of white nationalism does to a country, and all those European countries flirting with their own far right nationalists, and have elections coming up soon, might just have an "OH FUCK NO" moment.

And that's probably better than if Europe were electing far right governments before the U.S. Europe has a history of conflagration. Maybe Europe gets cold feet and starts taking far right nationalist politics more seriously, and rejects it more concisely and clearly, at election time. It's much easier, safer, more stable, to squash this at an election.

Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by nl on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:18PM (#13512071)
This is a wise and sensible comment. Having said that, I'll caution that in the long term we are all dead anyway.
Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by jacobush on Saturday January 28, 2017 @08:08PM (#13510964)
I hope you are right. Would not bet on it.
Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by baddox on Saturday January 28, 2017 @06:56PM (#13510507)
The trouble is that you can't convince someone that their own beliefs or policies they support are racial or religious discrimination. People can and do support these policies, and they can and do insist that the reasons for them are genuine concern for America's safety.
Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by facetube on Saturday January 28, 2017 @06:06PM (#13510113)
Voter turnout was a record low 55%, and Trump lost the popular vote by between three and five million votes, a fact he still refuses to recognize. Trump is not supported by a majority of the US population, and his constant and willful disregard of material fact is reckless.