All I'm saying is that Last Week Tonight's writing tightbeam is focused exclusively on 18-25 year old American leftists. Wrong?
How was one supposed to parse that from this?
Mostly his continuous downplaying of the refugee crisis as anything other than Evil European Racists trying to hurt innocent people.
I thought you were responding to this:
Also, that his shilling is so very specific, and I say that as the targeted demographic and political persuasion.
But also, I was just saying why people hate him. I dont even think you are among the haters seeing as you just said you had watched him.
Middling. Sometimes he really hits it out of the park (Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption), other times not so much ("SUSAN!" "It's current year!").
I mean...it's the exact same formula as the Daily Show, just with more swearing. It's what made TDS a success with that exact demographic. I take no stance on whether you should or should not dislike that. But it's not new.
I don't recall the Daily Show progressing every episode with Introduce Issue -> Show Video Clips -> Make Fun Of Them And Set Up Real-World Joke ->"Now let's have a serious discussion interspersed with frivolous comments that are funny simply due to juxtaposition" -> Second Clip Segment -> Do Something Outside Show Context As Final Joke ->See you next week!, but even if it did then it did so well enough to not be annoying. There's something to be said for the quality of how you present a formula determining whether it's good or bad.
Find the middle ground instead of just feeding the machine on either side? That two ideas are not mutually exclusive: Europe has a moral obligation to help, and doing so comes with additional costs, risk and challenges? That some refugees are "good elements" that will ultimately help the European economy, and some are "bad elements" that will commit crime.
Essentially what I believe is this, but it's a bitter position to take in that things like this almost never get addressed as such by politicians. It's like with poverty, welfare, rehabilitative prisons, either the subjects are all degenerate subhuman criminals or they're all pure saints kept down by the system, man.
Well I happen to live in a country where exactly that HAS happened where people from Muslim countries have killed their wives in Honor Killings... Which is considered unacceptable by our Muslim Canadian Chapter (and mostly... it is an excuse). But honestly... No. It isn't an issue.
I think it's kind of dismissive of cultures where honor killings are the norm to say that it's "just an excuse". It's horridly wrong, but it isn't just because they would have committed murder anyway.
But I see what you are saying, it is a "common sense" approach to something that seems like it would be a problem. That these are people who would kill, murder, maim to enact the laws of their previous country and their own prejudices.
However... There is no evidence to suggest that refuges commit more crimes and in many places in the world outside the UK, they actually commit less crime. A 2008 study suggests that refugees commit crimes in equal number to the people who live here.
They need not commit
more crimes, necessarily. What I want to have data on is the proportion of hate crimes, specifically against women, queer people, and apostates. But even starting such an inquiry would get you fire from some.