How many Syrian refugees should Australia take?

[Culprit]

We have just announced a crackdown on welfare recipients and the very next day announced that we are increasing our quota of welfare recipients.

[Skids]

[Skids]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/muslim-migrant-ban-backed-by-almost-half-australians-poll-shows/news-story/fe65dc9cc7018e545539e32b11029385

The majority of Australians want gays to be able to marry AND they want muslim immigration to cease.... pleba what?



Forty-nine per cent of people surveyed in an Essential poll agreed that Muslims should be blocked from the country while 40 per cent disagreed with the idea. There was 60 per cent support for the ban among coalition voters, 40 per cent from Labor and a surprising 34 per cent from Greens voters.

[Culprit]

Best thing about the South American refugees is they do know how to cook up Cocaine in large batches.

[Jezza]

[David]

49% isn't a majority, but it's certainly uncomfortably close to one. Very dispiriting.

(It's funny how democracy works, though, sometimes – a majority of Australians support euthanasia and likely capital punishment too, yet those issues aren't even on the table for discussion. And who knows what the figures would be for questions that pollsters haven't thought to ask like "should child molesters be tortured?" and "should the government stop taxing people?")

[Deja Vu]

[David]

^ Yes, that does come to mind somewhat. Also, the rates of domestic violence within relationships or driving-related deaths. The more you look, the more potentially lethal bowls of skittles there are.

[Wokko]

[David]

"Until we figure it out" is just a lame cop out without specifying exactly what needs to be figured out, how it might be done and approximately how long it will take. The way Trump and others have used it is effectively the same thing as a shrug of the shoulders. It's meaningless.

re: the skittles, I think both memes are dumb. The feminist one actually makes me angry too – it basically says that treating men with prejudice is acceptable. But it's no less dumb than the anti-refugee one. Under your logic, why shouldn't women treat all men as potential rapists and DV perpetrators until "we figure out how to stop" rape and domestic violence? Doesn't sound great, does it.

I oppose both approaches, but I'm not sure how you can think one form of profiling is OK and another isn't.

[David]

Perhaps "The American Conservative" can put it better than I can:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/racial-profiling-is-a-bad-counterterrorism-strategy/

[Wokko]

"Racial" profiling has never been discussed, the author has discredited himself and if you look at the name may just be a tad biased.

[HAL]

Where did Racial profiling get never been discussed the author has discredited himself and if you look at the name may be a tad biased?

[stui magpie]

[David]