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Personaly I oppose the policy. I think blocking an entire nation for the crimes of an acute minority is stupid. However the reaction from the media and the excitement over hypotheticals I have no other description for other than Hysteria. It's not useful to overreact, and it makes having rational discussion about the topic difficult.

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The whole ban is a hysterical overreaction, not the reporting on it.

Look, I'm all for better vetting of travelers to the US. But first, tell me what problems there are in the first place, and then tell me how you plan on fixing them. What's wrong with our current vetting process?

Banning travelers from countries carte-blanche "until we figure things out", with no identification of the original problem and no proposal for a fix, how is that something anyone can support? It is xenophobic, unreasonable, rooted in fiction, and in this case, it is a ban on muslims.

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