Almost everyone who works for the Borders Agency is Muslim. Next step - Sharia Law. I'm not racist, I just don't think that Britain should be a home for people who already have perfectly good homes elsewhere.
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Why don't you go visit some of those "perfectly good homes" in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc....
"I'm not racist, I just don't think that Britain should be a home for people who already have perfectly good homes elsewhere."
Does that mean every crisis abroad is a flase flag, so that these damned foreign types have an excuse to move to the UK, away from their supposed perfectly good homes, to exploit its generous welfare state? [/Ukipperwithaluminiumfoil]
Almost no one who works for ICE, the Border Patrol or Immigration are Muslim. In fact, it was pointed out a few years ago that it is almost impossible to interrogate most Muslims because no one in the US Government speaks Arabic or any of the other Middle Eastern languages.
Indeed, I think this screwball may be mistaking the Latino and Latina Border officers who work the southern border as being Arabic. So yes, racist.
Let us count the fallacies.
Almost everyone who works for the Borders Agency is Muslim.
Hasty generalisation. I highly doubt most workers are actually Muslim.
Next step - Sharia Law.
Slippery slope. How do Muslims in the Border Agency lead to Sharia?
I'm not racist, I just don't think that Britain should be a home for people who already have perfectly good homes elsewhere.
Non sequitur. Many of these people do not have any homes elsewhere (ie. are actually born there) or any good homes elsewhere (ie. immigrated for a damn good reason).
About a third of british airport security personel are HINDUS. Hindus are not muslims.
Most british airport security personel are welsh or midlands english. Depressingly christian, but so nominal as to be almost agnostic.
"Their accents are incomprehensible to anglo/saxons of course. But who cares."
Is this meant to be some kind of joke, or a bid for inclusion on RSTDT?
@#1765105
In the UK we have a great variety of different accents, and people from one part of the country will often have great difficulty sometimes understanding people from another.
@whatever:
Indeed. My southern friends all pull faces when I utter phrases like "it's oo'er daft to laugh at," "no, you mardy cow, it's just the other side of snicket" and "better get thi' sen down to the pub to meet r' kid." I think most Americans would find it odd how accents in the UK can change over a course of a few miles; I only have to travel 5 miles to the west of my house before the local accent varies to a significant extent.
@ whatever
As it happens, I've lived at various times in London, Birmingham, Yorkshire and Wales. Despite being foreign, I didn't have trouble understanding anyone, though alas I never did learn Welsh beyond the words to Mardi Gras Ym Mangor Ychaf.
@whatever
With us in the States, it's generally half phonetic changes and half vocabulary changes. I am from the NE but I'm kind of a mix of a couple different variants, both in terms of vocabulary (I've used "icebox," "might could," "hella" a lot before) and in terms of phonetics (usually NY but oftentimes there's a drawl). I can understand why I have attained such a mixed vocabulary, but I never quite understood how I got my drawl...
"I'm not racist, but we don't need those types living here with us."
I think we need a name for the internet law that "I'm not racist, but" will be followed by something extremely racist.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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