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Edward Snowden – Verified account ‏@Snowden
It's easy to criticize refugees, until you witness their courage. http://www.newyorker.com/topics/the-journey-from-syria-documentary …
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The New Yorker’s six-part documentary reveals the dangerous paths of Syrian asylum seekers in the E.U.

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Hamish Mackay
May 27
Hamish Mackay ‏@H_Mackay
@Snowden Is it ever easy to criticise refugees? That's a strange thing to say...
Michelle Catlin
May 27
Michelle Catlin ‏@CatlinNya
@Snowden It's easy to support refugees, until you see them harassing women and beating up gay people in your own country.
Frank in PA
May 27
Frank in PA ‏@g01ngd0wn
@Snowden @NewYorker The courage to run away to a European welfare state and live as a burden to others. Courage would be to stay/fix country
Leon Varkalis
May 27
Leon Varkalis ‏@sweatandlies
@Snowden @NewYorker *its easy to criticise me until you witness my courage. Perhaps subconsciously what's going on here
kirkness
May 27
kirkness ‏@TheKirkness
@g01ngd0wn @Snowden @NewYorker and after half of your family died bc you wanted to stay and fight, that'd be most courageous, right?
Frank in PA
May 27
Frank in PA ‏@g01ngd0wn
@TheKirkness @Snowden @NewYorker You send your defenseless to Europe for temporary assylum, maybe you're justified. They sent mostly men.
markhughes
May 27
markhughes ‏@markhughes
@Snowden Criticism (as in negativity rather than critique) is always a failure of empathy, in the *critic*.
AM_ProHuman
May 27
AM_ProHuman ‏@AM_ProHuman
@CatlinNya @Snowden that's a ridiculous right-wing generalization and false. Most refugees are good people
Frank in PA
May 27
Frank in PA ‏@g01ngd0wn
@TheKirkness @Snowden @NewYorker The majority of those left behind? Women, children, sick, elderly.
Mervyn G.
May 27
Mervyn G. ‏@_DrMG_
@CatlinNya @Snowden . What a load of codswallop.
Lee
May 27
Lee ‏@insidertheories
@Snowden Real refugees don't cross safe countries to get to the EU. Majority are nothing but economic migrants.
A Human Crisis
May 27
A Human Crisis ‏@AHumanCrisis
.@insidertheories @Snowden Real humans don't cross safe countries to get to the EU. Majority are nothing but economic humans. #HumanCrisis
Michelle Catlin
May 27
Michelle Catlin ‏@CatlinNya
@AM_ProHuman @Snowden It's just as much as a generalization as homophobic leftists portraying refugees as little children and women.
markhughes
May 27
markhughes ‏@markhughes
@Snowden You can argue that empathy is not always appropriate, but since it is what makes us human that's a pretty dark place you're headed
Michelle Catlin
May 27
Michelle Catlin ‏@CatlinNya
@AM_ProHuman @Snowden These refugees where born in countries where treating women and gays like garbage is normal. No thanks.
Frank in PA
May 27
Frank in PA ‏@g01ngd0wn
@TheKirkness @Snowden @NewYorker They are creating civil war where they go.
kirkness
May 27
kirkness ‏@TheKirkness
@g01ngd0wn @Snowden @NewYorker no, its our western fearful conservatives who are trying to view everything as an attack. Truly delusional
AM_ProHuman
May 27
AM_ProHuman ‏@AM_ProHuman
@g01ngd0wn @TheKirkness @Snowden @NewYorker that's just factually false. At least 50% are women http://www.factcheck.org/2015/09/stretching-facts-on-syrian-refugees/ …

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