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Rustynaerduwell

(769 posts)
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 11:09 AM Sunday

I don't know how many Afghans were allowed into the US. Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?

Every time I see the number, especially in Facebook memes, it gets bigger. The right has vilified every Afghan brought in under that program and they've vilified President Biden for letting them all in.

And somehow, the more they say he let in, the more they vilify. The worse they make it seem.

But here's the thing. Out of that huge number, whatever it is, how many Afghan immigrants have committed an act of terror or violence that made headlines in the last five years?

I don't remember any.

That fact that no one has mentioned this program or the Afghans invited here, or have been in the news since they arrived speaks to me of its success. I haven't seen many talking heads pointing this out.


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I don't know how many Afghans were allowed into the US. Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? (Original Post) Rustynaerduwell Sunday OP
I say deport all Magats to Afghanistan and let the Taliban sort it out. GreenWave Sunday #1
It's so easy to pick out one aberrant case and smear a whole group with it Ocelot II Sunday #2
one reads the correct phrase is Afghanis. nt msongs Sunday #3
"Afghan" should be used to describe people or as an adjective. "Afghani" should only be used for the currency. Rustynaerduwell Sunday #4

Ocelot II

(128,533 posts)
2. It's so easy to pick out one aberrant case and smear a whole group with it
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 11:22 AM
Sunday

if the perp is a member of a group that's already the other. An Afghani who was hired to do wet work for the CIA for the US loses his shit and commits murder for who knows what reasons, so now all Afghanis are terrorists and out they go. A troubled trans kid loses his shit and shoots up a church so all trans people are dangerous lunatics. But a white guy loses his shit and kills a state legislator? Or a white guy blows up a federal building? Or a white guy murders a doctor or bombs the Olympics or murders everybody at a prayer meeting? Oh, that's just that one guy, we can't judge other white guys by the actions of a few disturbed people.

Rustynaerduwell

(769 posts)
4. "Afghan" should be used to describe people or as an adjective. "Afghani" should only be used for the currency.
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 06:40 PM
Sunday

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