I would argue that it is a pretty high bar to assert that Khalil being within the borders of America somehow 'compromises', which is the actual word used, US foreign policy at all, much less does it severely.
As far as I'm aware, he hasn't even been protesting about US foreign policy. At all. I'm sure he doesn't agree with it, but he hasn't been protesting that. (Not that we should accept the premise that one person protesting a policy would compromise it, it's just that isn't what he's been doing.)
He's been protesting about the investment policy of the _private_ University he attends. People may not like that, hell he might have even broken some laws, perhaps even laws he could be charged with, but in no possible manner does that compromise US foreign policy.
And he does actually have the right to challenge this in court.
I'm not sure weird is the best word, the best word would actually be something like creepy or lunatic.
But no matter how much people pretend the word weird always means the same thing, there's a fundamentally different weird between 'guy talking about how kids should be able to vote but their parents get to do it for them' and 'person who sometimes wears a really dumb hat'.
A lot of things that Republicans have been saying for a while are just batsh*t crazy, and weird seems to be a way that that actually gets pointed out. I don't know why that's working, but it is.
And, in the case of Trump, there's also the 'weirdo who hangs around the teen girl dressing room', or even the 'guy who wanders around the debate stage stalking his opponent', which is actually one of the places that it came from, Harris's response to how she would behave if she had been in Hillary Clinton's place during that debate.
And a good chunk of the reason it's working is that Republicans actually have this mental image of themselves as normal, and actually start flipping out when you point out that a lot of Republican views are pretty far outside of mainstream.
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I would argue that it is a pretty high bar to assert that Khalil being within the borders of America somehow 'compromises', which is the actual word used, US foreign policy at all, much less does it severely.
As far as I'm aware, he hasn't even been protesting about US foreign policy. At all. I'm sure he doesn't agree with it, but he hasn't been protesting that. (Not that we should accept the premise that one person protesting a policy would compromise it, it's just that isn't what he's been doing.)
He's been protesting about the investment policy of the _private_ University he attends. People may not like that, hell he might have even broken some laws, perhaps even laws he could be charged with, but in no possible manner does that compromise US foreign policy.
And he does actually have the right to challenge this in court.
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I'm not sure weird is the best word, the best word would actually be something like creepy or lunatic.
But no matter how much people pretend the word weird always means the same thing, there's a fundamentally different weird between 'guy talking about how kids should be able to vote but their parents get to do it for them' and 'person who sometimes wears a really dumb hat'.
A lot of things that Republicans have been saying for a while are just batsh*t crazy, and weird seems to be a way that that actually gets pointed out. I don't know why that's working, but it is.
And, in the case of Trump, there's also the 'weirdo who hangs around the teen girl dressing room', or even the 'guy who wanders around the debate stage stalking his opponent', which is actually one of the places that it came from, Harris's response to how she would behave if she had been in Hillary Clinton's place during that debate.
And a good chunk of the reason it's working is that Republicans actually have this mental image of themselves as normal, and actually start flipping out when you point out that a lot of Republican views are pretty far outside of mainstream.
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