Originally Posted by
Rowan
Some people treat with disdain these things, but they exist for a reason which you evidently don't understand, despite the fact that you proclaim yourself as a thinker.
There are so many different reasons, it would be better to start a thread in P&R to discuss them. The question is which reasons are legit and which are just discriminatory, and whose interest they serve. I appreciated the Trump campaign metaphor of not wanting to gamble on a handful of skittles from a bowl where just a few random ones were poisoned, but I don't think security is the main interest behind visa restrictions, and that it has more to do with nationalist economic control. It's not nice to want to live somewhere for cultural reasons and then be forced to leave for economic/political ones; but again this is something to discuss in P&R, since we don't want to hijack the Heat thread, do we?