Shithole Countries
Jan 13, 2018 11:57:05 GMT -5
Post by TOS on Jan 13, 2018 11:57:05 GMT -5
The short of it: Donald Trump allegedly referred to countries like Haiti and El Salvador as "shithole countries". He is denying the allegations, but personally I wouldn't see it as very out of character for him to describe places like that as shitholes.
But whether or not he did doesn't matter to me. Places like Haiti or El Salvador (you know, the birthplace of the notorious MS-13 gang) are shithole countries.
But what I find absolutely hysterical is that the Left are, as expected, turning this into a race issue. Haiti and El Salvador are majority non white countries...so that must be why he called them shithole countries!
Let's look at some of the many reasons places like Haiti and El Salvador are, in fact, shithole countries.
Check out the story of the San Salvadorian police sergeant whose severed head was found on a bridge! El Salvador has since been deemed the most homicidal country in the world.
Here's a report from the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) that lists the concerning amount of crimes such as armed robbery, vehicle breakins, aggravated assaults, and gang activity in Haiti.
While on the topic of Haiti, check out the Wikipedia article that details the high amount of rape and murder in this totally not a shithole country.
Furthermore...if these countries are not indeed shitholes...why did 1.1 Million Salvadorians and 676,000 Haitians decide that they didn't want to live in their not shithole home countries anymore?
Some places are shitholes, that's just the way life works. Go to a place like my town. There are good neighborhoods and shithole neighborhoods. It's not a race thing. It's a safety thing.
"B-b-but, he said he would rather see immigrants from places like Norway! HE ONLY WANTS WHITE IMMIGRANTS! AARRRGGGHHHH!"
Pump the brakes, sport. Let's look at the crime rate in Norway before we assume this is a pigment driven statement.
Oh wow...what a shithole...an astounding 29 murders in all of Norway in 2014 (or roughly 0.000005% of the Norwegian population). Compare that to the 14,249 murders in the U.S. for the same year (or roughly 0.000045% of the U.S. population), or the estimated rate of one murder every hour in El Salvador (which had a population of about 6.3 Million in 2014, only 1 Million more people than Norway).
Are you seeing the reality here? Countries like Norway are safer. It is perfectly reasonable for any leader to say they would like to see more immigrants from safe countries than dangerous countries come into the nation that they are responsible for protecting. Why is this so impossible to grasp for some people?
But whether or not he did doesn't matter to me. Places like Haiti or El Salvador (you know, the birthplace of the notorious MS-13 gang) are shithole countries.
But what I find absolutely hysterical is that the Left are, as expected, turning this into a race issue. Haiti and El Salvador are majority non white countries...so that must be why he called them shithole countries!
Let's look at some of the many reasons places like Haiti and El Salvador are, in fact, shithole countries.
Check out the story of the San Salvadorian police sergeant whose severed head was found on a bridge! El Salvador has since been deemed the most homicidal country in the world.
Here's a report from the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) that lists the concerning amount of crimes such as armed robbery, vehicle breakins, aggravated assaults, and gang activity in Haiti.
While on the topic of Haiti, check out the Wikipedia article that details the high amount of rape and murder in this totally not a shithole country.
Furthermore...if these countries are not indeed shitholes...why did 1.1 Million Salvadorians and 676,000 Haitians decide that they didn't want to live in their not shithole home countries anymore?
Some places are shitholes, that's just the way life works. Go to a place like my town. There are good neighborhoods and shithole neighborhoods. It's not a race thing. It's a safety thing.
"B-b-but, he said he would rather see immigrants from places like Norway! HE ONLY WANTS WHITE IMMIGRANTS! AARRRGGGHHHH!"
Pump the brakes, sport. Let's look at the crime rate in Norway before we assume this is a pigment driven statement.
Oh wow...what a shithole...an astounding 29 murders in all of Norway in 2014 (or roughly 0.000005% of the Norwegian population). Compare that to the 14,249 murders in the U.S. for the same year (or roughly 0.000045% of the U.S. population), or the estimated rate of one murder every hour in El Salvador (which had a population of about 6.3 Million in 2014, only 1 Million more people than Norway).
Are you seeing the reality here? Countries like Norway are safer. It is perfectly reasonable for any leader to say they would like to see more immigrants from safe countries than dangerous countries come into the nation that they are responsible for protecting. Why is this so impossible to grasp for some people?