Protests Erupt All Over USA in Response to "Muslim Ban"

in #news8 years ago (edited)

If you are interested in international affairs, shit is going down in the USA right now.

I'm referring to the public response following the "Muslim Ban" announced Friday; Canada is now accepting asylum applications from U.S. green card holders who've been affected. If that seems in any way significant to you, I'd recommend jumping on Twitter.

Protests erupted at airports all over the USA and the ACLU has already managed to block the ban as unconstitutional.

Some jumping off points:

https://twitter.com/adamallidina (mainly rts)

https://twitter.com/hashtag/MuslimBan

CBC is another source which has covered it to an extent.

I've found the response from the tech community quite interesting as well, posted some public statements by well known people below.

(also, please share / upvote / help get the word out somehow; monday has the potential to get even more interesting and typically most mainstream media outlets cover this kind of potential large scale change in attempts to stifle / bias as much of it as possible)

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What gets me is they're banning the countries that AREN'T being violent but allowing people in from the countries that are. However the non violent countries are also the one's that aren't sharing, or don't have, oil while the violent ones do. This seems to be more about the petrodollar than cultural issues.

Totally. Almost every major geopolitical event has oil somewhere within the shit of greedy motives that tend to cause them.

Co-founder of Airbnb (Brian Chesky) on the ban:

Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US. Stayed tuned for more, contact me if urgent need for housing

Source: https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/825517729251684352

Co-founder of Google (Sergey Brin), at SFO protest:

"I'm here because I'm a refugee."

Source: https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/825546620276088834

CEO of Google (Sundar Pichai):

For generations, this country has been home to immigrants like Sanaz. Her story is playing out all over the country. Google is with you.

Source: https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/825569430507622402

This is the most reasoned analysis of the "muslim ban" i have come across

Unfortunately I believe you've linked to someone who has a very strong opinion on the topic but does not understand this issue from a more macro perspective. He is totally right about how the term "Muslim Ban" is slightly misleading but it does get the core point of the inherent discrimination behind the order across.

Within his first week of office, Trump has signed over 12 executive orders; the issue at hand is a flagrant violation of the American peoples trust in their president. Trump is quite clearly taking this strategy of executive orders in order to project an image of the "get shit done" type of businessmen platform which he ran on. Most people have yet to look into the constraints placed upon executive orders. They really just make for good headlines (especially with the dominant 24/hour news cycle). The issue at hand is the overall incompetence of Donald Trump.