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Tommy2Tone

(1,307 posts)
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 08:14 PM Nov 2015

I hope this image disturbs you and softens your heart.(Warning Graphic Image)

I have read and heard so much hatred directed toward refugees. Now 21 states say they won't take any Syrian refugees. The right, some on the left and my own wife agreed.

Then I showed her this picture. It was posted by Joe Trilppi on Twitter (@JoeTrippi) It is of a boy dead on a beach in Turkey. I asked my wife what did this boy know of war? He and his parents were trying to escape a living horror. We both cried.

If I have broken some guideline by posting this let me know and I will remove it. I hope not because I think everyone should see this.

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I hope this image disturbs you and softens your heart.(Warning Graphic Image) (Original Post) Tommy2Tone Nov 2015 OP
Needed, I've been fighting with my husband since well forever on this and similar horrific AuntPatsy Nov 2015 #1
K&r for " Christie: I Wouldn't Even Take in 3-Year-Old Orphan Refugees" uppityperson Nov 2015 #2
Did he include dead orphans? trof Nov 2015 #7
I doubt it because, well, you never know uppityperson Nov 2015 #8
And 75 years ago he would have refused to lift the quota for refugee Jewish children dflprincess Nov 2015 #9
...no words... pacalo Nov 2015 #3
It has been posted here before. Tipperary Nov 2015 #4
You posted the warning Omaha Steve Nov 2015 #5
A tweet from earlier today SCantiGOP Nov 2015 #6
Oh good one! n/t catchnrelease Nov 2015 #12
We can't turn away from this. mountain grammy Nov 2015 #10
Thank you, mountain grammy... MrMickeysMom Nov 2015 #13
That photo is devastating catchnrelease Nov 2015 #11

AuntPatsy

(9,904 posts)
1. Needed, I've been fighting with my husband since well forever on this and similar horrific
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 08:27 PM
Nov 2015

proof of humanity's foul ignorance, finally this morning after days of Fox News sound bites I bit out its past time to stand up for justice for those weaker and I then said in a normal voice, and I'll be damned if I let some ignorant fool claiming to possess a degree demand I live in fear, if you want to live like a coward have at it and that was the last of any more rude bites directed at me..

It is too late for that young boy, but not for the thousands still standing and crying Help Me please

How anyone could ignore such a cry is beyond my understanding and actually call such needed collateral....

Sick sick!

dflprincess

(28,082 posts)
9. And 75 years ago he would have refused to lift the quota for refugee Jewish children
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 11:12 PM
Nov 2015

because assholes like this never learn.

SCantiGOP

(13,871 posts)
6. A tweet from earlier today
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 10:51 PM
Nov 2015

Paraphrase: Too bad we don't have a season appropriate story in our culture about Middle Eastern people seeking refuge and being turned away by heartless people.

mountain grammy

(26,642 posts)
10. We can't turn away from this.
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 11:21 PM
Nov 2015

My governor says the plan to take refugees in Colorado are in place and they will be welcome here. I'm proud to support Governor Hickenlooper. and will volunteer to do whatever I can to help.

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
13. Thank you, mountain grammy...
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 11:35 PM
Nov 2015

I looked a long time at that picture again. I keep saying to myself, "What have we done?"

catchnrelease

(1,945 posts)
11. That photo is devastating
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 11:24 PM
Nov 2015

When I first saw it I cried and cried and even now it brings tears again. That poor little guy is just another victim of the stupidity that runs rampant in the human species. I don't believe we will ever learn.

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