The humane impulse toward this situation might pose to the thoughtful liberal the question of why the Syrian refugee crisis must be solved now (with which I concur), yet universal health care can be thrown under the bus again and again, and a candidate who vociferously backed the utter catastrophe of a war that played a crucial role in setting these events in motion (Hillary Clinton) still has a f#%king political career. Questions of "multiculturalism" versus assimilation also remain relevant--until recently, I lived near the Hasidic part of Williamsburg, where such questions are posed rather concretely and with a non-Muslim population.
However, John's blustery response to Rogerbob is the worst kind of demagoguery. I'm unlikely to take a Syrian into my house for the same reason as I'm unlikely to provide insurance for the uninsured. I, as a private citizen in a country with incredible income inequality, am not particularly well-equipped to do so, even compared to as self-evidently unjust a government as the American state. Private voluntarism is not the solution to a social problem.
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