me: https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/799088158621081600
Cenk Uygur on Twitter
“One of our viewers came up with a great idea tonight- if Trump starts a Muslim registry, we should all sign up! #NotOnOurWatch #IamSpartacus”
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will you do this?
fren: No.
I don't want to be in a database. <_<
me: nor do those muslims
but they won't have a choice
fren: But that's not even a policy he's proposed. >_>
me: ok but if he does propose it
i mean he has steve bannon and others having a role in the whitehouse, someone for attorney general who likes the idea of a muslim registry, etc
if it does happen
it's the brave thing
fren: Well, you can do anything with "if".
>_>
me: to fuck up that system as well as possible
fren: The idea of even pretending to be a Muslim disgusts me.
me: yes but it's a more realistic "if" if there's white nationalists in the white house
it's not about pretending to be a muslim, it's about making the muslim registry ineffective and meaningless because of enough people who aren't muslims being a part of it
etc
fren: ...(By pretending to be a Muslim!)
me: ok what if we replace Muslim with Jew just hypothetically
if there was a Jewish registry
does that sound more sinister
fren: Yes.
me: ok. well there's no difference
other than how sinister it 'sounds' because
there's a history of that shit with jews
there isn't currently with muslims
fren: I wasn't endorsing a Muslim database. >_>
me: but in both cases it's a
religious group that is demagogued in society
fren: And as far as I can tell, Trump never came up with such an idea.
The media has.
And planted it.
>_>
It's a terrible idea.
me: ok
yeah it is a terrible idea
I'm glad at least you agree it's a terrible idea
fren: If I'm against a gun registry, it follows I'd be against this, too.