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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand the notion that we shouldn’t blindly, unconditionally welcome visitors who harbor enmity for the U.S., but only insofar as we are simultaneously working as a nation to determine the WHY of that enmity (and hopefully addressing / resolving that underlying issue, if possible) and especially excluding from that determination the voices of those who have a natural incentive to distort that WHY for their own purposes.

I don’t want anyone with a demonstrable connection to Ukraine having a voice in determining why a Russian visitor may be hostile to the U.S., and vice versa. There are plenty of actually objective agents to handle the task. Recuse the others, and hold them accountable if they fail to disclose a COI.

I don’t want anyone with a demonstrable connection to Pakistan having a voice in determining why an Indian visitor may be hostile to the U.S., and vice versa. There are plenty of actually objective agents to handle the task. Recuse the others, and hold them accountable if they fail to disclose a COI.

I don’t want anyone with a demonstrable connection to Israel having a voice in determining why an Arab or Muslim visitor may be hostile to the U.S., and vice versa. There are plenty of actually objective agents to handle the task. Recuse the others, and hold them accountable if they fail to disclose a COI.

And I don’t want anyone with a demonstrable connection to Taiwan having a voice in determining why a Chinese visitor may be hostile to the U.S., and vice versa. There are plenty of actually objective agents to handle the task. Recuse the others, and hold them accountable if they fail to disclose a COI.[/quote]

I’m someone with a strong connection to one side in one of the conflicts here.

As long as we’re all peaceful enough that we’re not on a violent loon watchlist: Why the heck should we be keeping tourists out because they disagree with me?

My kid disagrees with me.

Why should we try to exclude people who think like my wonderful kid, purely because they have what I think are stupidity views about a complicated issue?[/quote]

Why? Because the names on the “watchlist” are selected by people with a dog in the fight, that’s why?

You didn’t think God or Judge Judy built the list, did you?[/quote]

The watchlist itself is problematic, and efforts to create and manage it ought to be subject to a lot of oversight, but we’re simply always going to have some kind of list of people who’ve talked about doing awful things in public, or who do have active communications with awful people. This isn’t Utopia. This is Earth. Your list of who’s awful might be different from mine, but you have a ln idea of who’d be on your list, too.

But there’s a difference between, say, tracking convicted terrorists and making all people try to remember all of their TikTok user names. [/quote]

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