???Many new exiles hope to relocate to the United States: no small irony given that the instability they're fleeing was set in motion by the United States itself???
The objectives of the US in the Middle East, post 9/11, quite apparently did not have anything to do with immigration. Christian refugees from the Middle East relocating to the Land of Immigrants would most certainly make very grateful and patriotic future citizens, in spite of their hardships. Why is that bad for America, considering that most residents of that part of the World seem to have mostly very negative feelings towards America of late? Sir, where is the irony in all this?
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Where does the concept of genetic diversity stand in the eyes of today
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Could that undermine the notion that all humans are equal?
If you think that justice and equality demand biological identity, I think it could. But I also think that we have human and civil rights that don't depend on the assumption that our ancestors were in equivalent places 500 years ago.
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