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and I'm sorry if this sounds like kicking a dead horse -- BUT --- even with all the terrible things that would have happened if Hilary Clinton had been elected President -- we would not have Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court so that the NEXT President who followed CLinton and tried to institute a Muslim ban would have an entirely different SUpreme Court to contend with --- On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:02 PM, A.R. G via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban/ > > The majority basically bought all of the Trump administration's bullshit > excuses, suggesting that because the Muslim ban doesn't apply to all Muslim > countries and that it also applies to some non-Muslims, that we should > basically ignore all of the things Trump said during his campaign > explicitly stating that the aim was to ban Muslims. > > Of course, in practice, it doesn't ban all of them because he didn't list > off every single Muslim country or every single Muslim individual. But the > people who were banned were targeted as Muslims. Note also how the Court > points out that these are the same countries targeted by Obama. Yeah? So? > Obama repeatedly expressed anti-Muslim sentiment himself because of his > fear of being conflated with Muslims or anything that ignorant people might > confuse with Muslims (see here: > https://alethonews.com/2010/10/19/obama-extends-his- > islamophobia-to-include-sikhs-as-well/ > ). > > The "not all Muslims are targeted" argument would also imply that the US > wasn't being racist during the slave era because not all blacks were > enslaved (such as the ones in the North). Of course, that would ignore that > those blacks who *were* enslaved were enslaved *because they were black*! > > The entire episode is ludicrous. These are the kinds of orders you see in > conflict-ridden developing states. Absolutely disgusting. > > Amith R. Gupta > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mameerop% > 40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
