Anonymous
08/27/2021 10:09
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:May they find refuge here
God Bless them
+1
These people helped us and our troops. This is the least we can do. You helped our troops, you’re welcome in my neighborhood. Full stop.
Thanks for posting Ben Sasse!
A lot of empty lily white virtue signaling and incelish lily white bigotry in this thread, in equal number. That is, just another day on DCUM. If we could ship these contingents of spoiled white liberals and ignorant white goobers out for these hard working Afganis I’d be all for it.
How do you know they are hard working?
Anonymous
08/27/2021 07:13
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:May they find refuge here
God Bless them
+1
These people helped us and our troops. This is the least we can do. You helped our troops, you’re welcome in my neighborhood. Full stop.
Thanks for posting Ben Sasse!
A lot of empty lily white virtue signaling and incelish lily white bigotry in this thread, in equal number. That is, just another day on DCUM. If we could ship these contingents of spoiled white liberals and ignorant white goobers out for these hard working Afganis I’d be all for it.
Anonymous
08/27/2021 05:46
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am worried about schools, FCPS specifically. Maybe the number of refugees is not that high, but for the amount of posts asking for donations on my Facebook page and nextdoor, Iam worried about the impact on FCPS resources - class size, ESOL, etc.Anonymous wrote:My understanding is many are relocating to this area. Why OP?
Send your kids to a sh#tty fly-by-right evangelical private school if you’re so concerned. There’s plenty of Liberty U feeders all over VA.
The Afghan kids are more likely to go to a religious school.
No, they are not more likely to do that. Most will go to public.
Anonymous
08/27/2021 04:42
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am worried about schools, FCPS specifically. Maybe the number of refugees is not that high, but for the amount of posts asking for donations on my Facebook page and nextdoor, Iam worried about the impact on FCPS resources - class size, ESOL, etc.Anonymous wrote:My understanding is many are relocating to this area. Why OP?
Send your kids to a sh#tty fly-by-right evangelical private school if you’re so concerned. There’s plenty of Liberty U feeders all over VA.
The Afghan kids are more likely to go to a religious school.
There are a lot of Afghanis who are about as religious as your average go-to-church-at-Christmas-and-Easter Catholic and they were more likely to have support the Americans in Afghanistan and to suffer the most under Taliban rule.
Maybe. Probably not.
Ask them about Israel, or their views on Jewish people in general. Then ask them about women’s rights.
Anonymous
08/27/2021 04:38
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:I am worried about schools, FCPS specifically. Maybe the number of refugees is not that high, but for the amount of posts asking for donations on my Facebook page and nextdoor, Iam worried about the impact on FCPS resources - class size, ESOL, etc.Anonymous wrote:My understanding is many are relocating to this area. Why OP?
FCPS resources are already strained to the limits.
This influx of non-English speaking school age kids (up to age 21 in some cases) could break the system.
Anonymous
08/26/2021 13:22
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:By American values, they probably means things like "not throwing gay people off of roofs" and "not beating women for just walking down the street." You know, that sort of thing.
You mean like the Taliban’s values? These people are fleeing the taliban NOT embracing their values!
Or they could be Taliban sympathizers who just want to get into America. It would be more believable if they were fleeing to Uzbekistan.
We've already seen it with 'refugees' from Central America. People who have a good life there but they really would rather be in America.
Anonymous
08/26/2021 13:17
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s a huge Afghani population that already lives & thrives in Nova. They are more likely to thrive here where they have a long standing community that speaks their languages and can help them navigate US bureaucracy, find jobs, learn English, etc. If you plop them in the middle of rural Nebraska, they will have a very difficult time adapting and assimilating.
It is easier to assimilate if they do not have a huge Afghani population. Then there is less need to learn English or American culture.
A little different for Afghanistan with Taliban banning everything, but you can just watch foreign satellite service TV and read foreign language newspapers while shopping at groceries that cater to your food style.
I have to ask.. how welcoming would the folks in the middle of NE be to a bunch of Afghan refugees who may be Muslims?
Also, as a child of immigrants, I can tell you that it's really hard for older people to eat foods that are completely foreign to them. Do you think they can find food in the middle of NE that fits their Afghani palates? And the local grocery store probably wouldn't carry the same things that Afghanis are used to. I know when my parents came to the US, they found grocery shopping difficult at the local American store. they eventually found a tiny (and I mean tiny) store that catered to that ethnic group.
I recall a movie based on a true story with Tommy Lee Jones playing a Vietnam War vet with his Vietnamese wife whom he brings to the states. His family serve a huge American meal, one that is considered "normal", peas, carrots, mash potatos, and the Vietnamese wife and kid just stare at it, and find it hard to eat.
Imagine if you went to some strange place and had to eat only the local food there. You would find it hard. My white ILs lived in the middle east for a while, and they did all their food shopping at the compound grocery store that sold western goods. They would have found it very difficult to shop at the local grocery store.
Exactly. That's why assimilation will be quicker when it is harder to avoid. Now consider the kids. If it was harder to come by Afghan culture, they will assimilate quickly. If instead they are eating Afghan meals everyday and watching Afghan TV at home and generally socializing with people who speak the same language, they will be less assimilated, especially if they don't go to public school because there was enough people that they were able to set up a religious school.
Anonymous
08/25/2021 21:51
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's 100% our fault they are in this mess,
No it isn't. We were there to help them, not the other way around. Because of the US, they got 20 years without the Taliban.
Because of our Cold War they got the Taliban.
I thought it was due to religious zealotry.
Then you need to read up on your history.
Anonymous
08/25/2021 21:45
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:By American values, they probably means things like "not throwing gay people off of roofs" and "not beating women for just walking down the street." You know, that sort of thing.
You mean like the Taliban’s values? These people are fleeing the taliban NOT embracing their values!
Anonymous
08/25/2021 21:15
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am worried about schools, FCPS specifically. Maybe the number of refugees is not that high, but for the amount of posts asking for donations on my Facebook page and nextdoor, Iam worried about the impact on FCPS resources - class size, ESOL, etc.Anonymous wrote:My understanding is many are relocating to this area. Why OP?
Oh goodness. Seriously? They are being sent to other locations and most would be a boon to any community — perhaps people like you might discover the act of EMPATHY and COMPASSION
How many are you hosting in your home? Yeah that’s what I thought.
Anonymous
08/25/2021 20:27
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s a huge Afghani population that already lives & thrives in Nova. They are more likely to thrive here where they have a long standing community that speaks their languages and can help them navigate US bureaucracy, find jobs, learn English, etc. If you plop them in the middle of rural Nebraska, they will have a very difficult time adapting and assimilating.
It is easier to assimilate if they do not have a huge Afghani population. Then there is less need to learn English or American culture.
A little different for Afghanistan with Taliban banning everything, but you can just watch foreign satellite service TV and read foreign language newspapers while shopping at groceries that cater to your food style.
I have to ask.. how welcoming would the folks in the middle of NE be to a bunch of Afghan refugees who may be Muslims?
Also, as a child of immigrants, I can tell you that it's really hard for older people to eat foods that are completely foreign to them. Do you think they can find food in the middle of NE that fits their Afghani palates? And the local grocery store probably wouldn't carry the same things that Afghanis are used to. I know when my parents came to the US, they found grocery shopping difficult at the local American store. they eventually found a tiny (and I mean tiny) store that catered to that ethnic group.
I recall a movie based on a true story with Tommy Lee Jones playing a Vietnam War vet with his Vietnamese wife whom he brings to the states. His family serve a huge American meal, one that is considered "normal", peas, carrots, mash potatos, and the Vietnamese wife and kid just stare at it, and find it hard to eat.
Imagine if you went to some strange place and had to eat only the local food there. You would find it hard. My white ILs lived in the middle east for a while, and they did all their food shopping at the compound grocery store that sold western goods. They would have found it very difficult to shop at the local grocery store.
Anonymous
08/25/2021 19:28
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:May they find refuge here
God Bless them
+1
These people helped us and our troops. This is the least we can do. You helped our troops, you’re welcome in my neighborhood. Full stop.
Anonymous
08/25/2021 19:22
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:Those of you calling OP a troll vastly underestimate how UMC parents freak out over the thought of their kids being around poor/non Asian POC. Go read threads in the school forums. The only acceptable public schools are mostly white and Asian UMC ones. Support refugees, BLM, and immigrants? Sure yeah but not in my kids’ school!
This isn't true across the board, but there are these people out there. My kid went to a Catholic school and in late elementary we decided to move child to FCPS. When they got to middle school one of the Catholic school moms told me she had gone to the spring parents night and saw all the "south Asian kids" and heard their languages and decided it wasn't for her child. I was like, ooookkkkk.
My child has friends of a bunch of different ethnicities and backgrounds and we love it.
Anonymous
08/25/2021 18:34
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's 100% our fault they are in this mess,
No it isn't. We were there to help them, not the other way around. Because of the US, they got 20 years without the Taliban.
Because of our Cold War they got the Taliban.
I thought it was due to religious zealotry.
Anonymous
08/25/2021 16:49
Subject: Who are these refugees from Afghanistan who keep arriving at Dulles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Invade the world begets invite the world.
It would be a shame if these refugees had to go to the same schools as all the kids of defense contractors that ruined their home country.
Defense contractors got rich off of this, no?
It's why the Afghan forces couldn't service the planes and their Air Force was grounded. They never taught the Afghan military to do this, instead paying a lot of money for contractors to maintain the air force.