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ryan_cats

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16. Several points

Reply to uawchild (Reply #5)

Sun Oct 25, 2015, 04:24 PM

Oct 2015

Several points but number one is if he is volunteering me to take some in due to his compassionate largess, how many is he taking?

I mean how else could we be virtuous if we didn't feel something for the rabble, especially, if all it takes to prove compassion to one's self is to post about how we (meaning you, I'm doing my share posting about it) should do something?

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Eastern Europe�s Compassion Deficit [View all] uawchild Oct 2015 OP

Canada, under new leadership, has pledged to bring in 24,000 refugees by Christmas. Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #1

How ryan_cats Oct 2015 #3

hmmm. let's do the math. uawchild Oct 2015 #5

Several points ryan_cats Oct 2015 #16

As a person of Eastern European descent, I feel it's unfair to brand EE as uniformly intolerant LiberalEsto Oct 2015 #2

is it actually broad brushing though? uawchild Oct 2015 #4

Calling it a "trait" is broad-brushing Eastern Europeans, wouldn't you say? LiberalEsto Oct 2015 #6

um, did you actually look up the definition of "trait"? uawchild Oct 2015 #7

Is it also an Eastern European trait to love pork and sauerkraut? LiberalEsto Oct 2015 #9

you seem intent on flogging a straw man argument. uawchild Oct 2015 #10

And you are a DU member for TWO WEEKS? LiberalEsto Oct 2015 #18

the last refugee of a failed argument uawchild Oct 2015 #19

It's the same thing over here. People like Donald Trump smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #12

This guy obviously has a bone to pick with Eastern Europe due to the smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #13

Yeah, what would a Holocaust scholar know about xenophobia... /sarcasm uawchild Oct 2015 #14

Let me help ryan_cats Oct 2015 #17

I think it is based on poverty too hfojvt Oct 2015 #8

Thank you for your perspective. smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #11

I think it might be purely hardship. These countries are not rich. Yo_Mama Oct 2015 #15