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I really don't understand why this disconnect still exists. I'll repeat: The first post discussing the attacks contains a link to a BBC story that paraphrases a police officer saying he'd detained 8 card-carrying "asylum seekers" in connection with the attacks. *That's evidence.*StatGuy2000 said:These were posted back last Thursday, when at the time there wasn't evidence that Syrian refugees were involved in the mass assaults.
Given that this story was posted in a thread about the EU refugee crisis, you really should take a step back and consider how Hossam could have known to post the story here. It wasn't a lucky guess. I suggest that you be more open-minded to considering the evidence that was available, rather than shutting your eyes/ears and pretending none existed.
Yes: That's poisoning the well. The implication you are making is that by suggesting a link, one puts themselves in the same category as those such as Donald Trump (et al). [edit] It is a way to both discourage others from staking out a similar position by pre-emptively/automatically comparing them with an undesirable and it is a way to avoid having a logical argument about a subject (ie: if Trump holds the position, it must be bad -- no need to discuss why).As for poisoning the well by talking about reactive hatred -- again, at no time did I say that anyone on this forum expressed reactive hatred. What I was saying was that right-wing elements in the US (e.g. Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Fox News commentators) have sought to link the mass assaults to the Syrian refugee crisis and therefore insinuate that Syrian refugees are dangerous.
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