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CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 01:33 PM Feb 2017

Are Trump supporters cowards?

Experts calculate that the chances of being killed by a refugee turned terrorist is 3.6 Billion to one. Your chances of being struck by lightning in any given year is 1 in 960,000. So we should be 3,750 times more concerned about being concerned about being struck by lighting than being killed by a refugee.

Conclusion, if refugees scare you so much that you would support not allowing them to come to into the US, you are a real coward.

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/what-are-the-chances-of-being-killed-by-a-terrorist-attack-on-us-soil

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Are Trump supporters cowards? (Original Post) CajunBlazer Feb 2017 OP
what are the chances AlexSFCA Feb 2017 #1
Of course they are and racist too SHRED Feb 2017 #2
More cowardly everyday lame54 Feb 2017 #3
If given a large number of a like minded mob they might be less cowardly. gordianot Feb 2017 #4
They have had fear inculcated into them since childhood. Trust Buster Feb 2017 #5
They're racist using fear as an excuse fun n serious Feb 2017 #6
Racism is based in fear Caliman73 Feb 2017 #9
I'm afraid that's true CajunBlazer Feb 2017 #23
I am going to vote: racist/ bigoted etherealtruth Feb 2017 #7
I told a relative who supports the ban that we have become a nation of wimps. Ace Rothstein Feb 2017 #8
Conservatives claim they do not like political correctness. Thor_MN Feb 2017 #15
They are winps and cowards! CajunBlazer Feb 2017 #24
Like I always say,cancer will kill you before any Bengus81 Feb 2017 #10
They are willful consumers of phoney baloney JHB Feb 2017 #11
Post removed Post removed Feb 2017 #12
Common sense for rust belt voters fearing Muslims when they're under no danger of attack? bettyellen Feb 2017 #19
Truely a Trumpish way of thinking. revmclaren Feb 2017 #20
It is not about terrorism for them ElkeH Feb 2017 #13
Extreme vetting for cumulo nimbus clouds! HassleCat Feb 2017 #14
No, they are carefully and conscientiously stupid. GreenEyedLefty Feb 2017 #16
They aint afraid of a terrorist bravenak Feb 2017 #17
"liberal snowflake" is an ironic put-down used by conservatives... alterfurz Feb 2017 #18
A gun loving associate of mine forgot himself and called my a liberal wimp. . . . CajunBlazer Feb 2017 #29
Why are Trump supporters such cowards? lostnfound Feb 2017 #21
As they are bullies (like Trump) rock Feb 2017 #22
Mostly they are White Supremacists JI7 Feb 2017 #25
Scapegoating ProudLib72 Feb 2017 #26
There was a study showing that their fear centers in their brains Cary Feb 2017 #27
Conservatives are the thin-skinned whiny crybabies they accuse us of being. Initech Feb 2017 #28
Fuck yes. Glamrock Feb 2017 #30
Since they support a coward YoungDemCA Feb 2017 #31
 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
2. Of course they are and racist too
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 01:35 PM
Feb 2017

That's why fear mongering works so well on them about POC and other religions.

gordianot

(15,237 posts)
4. If given a large number of a like minded mob they might be less cowardly.
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 01:40 PM
Feb 2017

I figure that is where this is going. Right now they are getting what they want so no need to protest, that will not last.

Caliman73

(11,736 posts)
9. Racism is based in fear
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 01:50 PM
Feb 2017

Racists are usually reacting out of fear of the unknown or out of some sense of overblown fear from something that happened to them or someone they know at the hands of an individual of the hated group.

CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
23. I'm afraid that's true
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 01:08 AM
Feb 2017

Which is one of the reasons the biggest racist seldom get over that fear and try to never communicate with the hated group and therefore remain racist all of their lives. The only hope is that they don't effectively communicate their fear and racism to their children. Then their children can commingle and ultimately become better, more tolerant human beings.

I thing this progression from generation to generation is why racism is slowly dying out in the South. I hope it is anyway.

Ace Rothstein

(3,161 posts)
8. I told a relative who supports the ban that we have become a nation of wimps.
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 01:47 PM
Feb 2017

He went off about no more political correctness or some other nonsense.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
15. Conservatives claim they do not like political correctness.
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 02:16 PM
Feb 2017

So it is only proper to avoid "Nationalist", "White Supremacist", "Alt-Right" and call them the angry, fearful, racist, assholes that they are.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
10. Like I always say,cancer will kill you before any
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 01:57 PM
Feb 2017

terrorist gets within 10,000 miles of you. Scared,yeah of dying a hideous slow death from cancer. Want to spend umpteen billions?!?! Then freaking DO IT on cancer research instead of endless wars.

JHB

(37,159 posts)
11. They are willful consumers of phoney baloney
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 01:57 PM
Feb 2017

They're making decisions on bad information, but slurping all that bad information is all on them.

Response to CajunBlazer (Original post)

 

ElkeH

(105 posts)
13. It is not about terrorism for them
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 02:04 PM
Feb 2017

Their real worry in regard to national security is that Muslims will "attack" the US with their skin color and their culture.

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
14. Extreme vetting for cumulo nimbus clouds!
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 02:05 PM
Feb 2017

It's a two for one deal. We ban lightning and tornadoes at a single stroke.

alterfurz

(2,474 posts)
18. "liberal snowflake" is an ironic put-down used by conservatives...
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 02:31 PM
Feb 2017

...who cower behind a giant wall, watch only Fox News, and need a gun to go out to get a sandwich. -- Twitter

CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
29. A gun loving associate of mine forgot himself and called my a liberal wimp. . . .
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 01:18 AM
Feb 2017

. . . . and then I reminded him that I am a 5th Black Belt and that I didn't hide behind a wall or a gun.

Glamrock

(11,796 posts)
30. Fuck yes.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 01:35 AM
Feb 2017

Strange coincidence, I was thinking along these same lines this afternoon. Home of the brave my ass. Brave is sticking to your values when times get tough. Can't think of anything, ANY-FUCKING-THING that encapsulates our values more than the Statue of Liberty and the message she represents. If you're gonna let Bill O'Reilly scare you into throwing those values out the window, than you're a coward. As liar spice would say, PERIOD!

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