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[–]aukofthecovenantWhite man with eyes 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

these "refugees" were never vetted

Of course they weren't. Actual vetting might have turned up cases where people would have to be sent back. Would liberals really be able to muster the backbone for that? Better from their standpoint not to puncture the fog of ignorance, making it easier to virtue-signal.

none of them were willing to fight for their country

It's so ridiculous that the narrative is "These people helped us, so we must take them in because they believe in Our Values™ - that's why they helped us!" as if we're necessarily getting the most virtuous Afghans (virtuous by liberal standards). In reality, many Afghans helped the American forces because they were being well compensated. So we're not getting the most virtuous, only the most mercenary.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Also the idea of this alleged vetting process they have to go through strikes me as insane.

'Are you an Islamist, do you like Bacha Bazzi, have you ever been part of a registered terrorist group and do you love Democracy™ and freedom and all that?'

'No to all of them except the last one which is a wholehearted YES!!!'

'Well you've been vetted sir. Welcome to the United States.'

[–]block_socks 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

When you think about it, vetting suggests exclusion/intolerance and exclusion/intolerance (consider what happens to those who fail vetting, they get... deported, i.e. excluded) falls afoul of liberal pseudo-morality. Obviously anyone who arrives at this reasoning and yet is tasked with a vetting process cannot be trusted to do anything short of admit practically everyone. It is similar to how 'liberals' hate generalization, stereotyping and a wide range of other things for similar reasons. The answer is probably as simple as this: The people leaving Afghanistan tend toward being urbanite feminists, queers, trannies, etc. and these people don't need to be 'vetted' simply because they are practically already 'morally pure' under liberal pseudo-morality. They are always 'victims' and never 'oppressors', 'threats', 'villains', etc. To even consider that they may be oppressors is actually all that one needs to do in order to himself become an oppressor or villain himself (the fact that 'RadFems' or 'TERFs' question whether 'trans women' may in fact merely be men intruding into women's safe spaces where they will then 'oppress' them, is all it takes to get people calling them 'Far-Right TERFs', for example).

I don't even think we're getting these more desperate or 'mercenary' types. Most of these Afghan military types are probably straight and, by American standards, socially reactionary, men who would probably fit in fine with the Taliban if they didn't fear retaliation for supporting the Westerners. They might pass because their race is correct (they are oppressed browns in the eyes of the 'liberals'), but they're still practically religious straight conservative men who will make the average Republican voter look radical on average.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

i'm sure some of the refuggeees are trannies, gays etc but every single person in afghanistan will want to come to America to get out of their hellhole, including right wing islamic men.