Comment on Keep The Flame by timsplosion

Well, first of all, I don't know if I'd phrase it as America forces its freedom on its citizens. I'm all for freedom, but I'd rather think that America is the "free-ist" because it's citizens wanted it to be, not because they were forced to be. All America as a nation does is guarantee its citizens the right to enact upon those wants. If, for some reason (and I'm not saying we ever will or that it'd ever be a good idea (heaven forbid!), this is just an extreme example), the citizens all decided they did NOT want that freedom anymore, then strictly technically the nation would be obligated to support the right to choose that.

But, you know, semantics.

As for the rest, I already said my piece. Whether or not you take anything out of it is your business, because as you correctly say, you have that right. Just like I have the right to adamantly disagree. But as you also say, nothing will change to resolve what I personally disagree about it if I don't speak up, say something about it, show support, vote for supporting measures, etc. So I did. But that's me. The rest after this point is up to you.

Though I will say that you assume these immigrants seeking asylum even have any say in what goes on in their governments. It IS possible to corrupt a supposedly democratic government to the point that the ability to vote becomes more or less meaningless, and it's sadly quite widespread still. What, if anything, can be done about that is for the future to decide, but this and other points are still very much worth keeping in consideration when assessing the problem, no matter which side you lean towards.

And as for this girl in TIME magazine, I don't know much of anything about this, so I can't reasonably comment on it. Whatever the people involved have or have not done, though, that does not mean all or even most are guilty of similar things. And the statistics (which I have been keeping read up on) all suggest it's really not as widespread as certain parties like to suggest. So to assume they are all automatically and without evidence is, well, basically bias by definition, and arguably racist, depending on how such unfair assumptions are assigned.