Seems like you’re just falling for partisan media histrionics and conflating a lot of different things out of context.
On Fox News, Trump said that regarding Muslims in the US, he would do “unthinkable” things, “and certain things will be done that we never thought would happen in this country”.
In context, Trump is giving a tough-sounding but vague and non-committal response to questions about whether there should be a digital database of Muslims in the country. He later partially walked this back, saying it was a leading question from a reporter and he meant we should have terrorism watch lists. Which obviously already exist.
I’ve read Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, and this might be a generalization from fictional evidence, but I can’t help asking: As a foreign student in the US, how likely is Trump to have me tortured for no reason?
I’d say it’s about as likely as you giving yourself a heart attack reading political outrage porn.
Thanks, I guess. I knew he was talking about a digital database, but I was wondering if it could have been a dogwhistle for something else. I don’t have a favorable opinion of human decency in general.
FWIW, that wasn’t a political comment. I hardly ever read or watch anything political. Some TV clips were shown to me by an acquaintance and I wanted an honest assessment of what he had told me it was about. I don’t have any opinions on the subject myself.
Seems like you’re just falling for partisan media histrionics and conflating a lot of different things out of context.
In context, Trump is giving a tough-sounding but vague and non-committal response to questions about whether there should be a digital database of Muslims in the country. He later partially walked this back, saying it was a leading question from a reporter and he meant we should have terrorism watch lists. Which obviously already exist.
I’d say it’s about as likely as you giving yourself a heart attack reading political outrage porn.
Thanks, I guess. I knew he was talking about a digital database, but I was wondering if it could have been a dogwhistle for something else. I don’t have a favorable opinion of human decency in general.
FWIW, that wasn’t a political comment. I hardly ever read or watch anything political. Some TV clips were shown to me by an acquaintance and I wanted an honest assessment of what he had told me it was about. I don’t have any opinions on the subject myself.