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If you need emotional support from your work colleagues because the country has elected a president you don't like, you have a problem.

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There's a HUGE difference between "a president you don't like" and "a president who's entire platform was removing people like you from the country".

I didn't realize Google employed illegal immigrants.

And yet the travel ban blocked several google employees, so it’s clearly not just illegal immigrants...

Trump campaigned on far more that illegal immigrants. Muslims and LGBT people were also targets of his.

But deporting Muslims? He definitely didn't campaign on that. And that he targeted LGBT people is a real stretch. Even Obama was more anti-LGBT in 2008.

Yes. Remember when he was saying he was going to ban all Muslims? And remember the Muslim ban that prevented lawful residents from coming back into the country?

You may not want to believe it, but it is true. Lots of groups of marginalized people felt targeted by Trump and his supporters. And Trump has not done a thing to assuage those fears.

It wasn't "ban all Muslims" it was "ban all Muslims from entering", which is a pretty important distinction & not anywhere near as severe as deportation. The travel ban was really stupid in my opinion -- but I don't dislike it is as much as I dislike the notion that having any policy about who can or can't come here is immoral.

When that policy is based merely on one's religion, and not on anything that matters, then yes, it is immoral.

If it "didn't matter" then there wouldn't be such a massive difference in the opinions of Muslims and non-Muslims about secular topics. Islam in particular is also more like religious and political ideology intertwined, and the political aspect of it does not mix well with Western culture or values. I'm not just making this up either, there are a variety of polls from allegedly "moderate" Muslim countries as well as within European countries that show disturbingly high levels of support for terrorism, honor killings, oppression of women, killing of apostates, etc.

Please keep flamewar topics off HN, as the guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Religious flamewar is particularly unwelcome here.

If the majority of the country doesn't want you in, then tough titty. I would not stay somewhere where I'm not welcome.

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