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by lovich 6 days ago
Why was this interesting beyond historical trivia?

Edit: actually nah, I’m not gonna wait for you to walk into this conclusion.

You put a single presidents name down for these bans with Biden, which was in response to a global pandemic where every country was instituting travel restrictionsz

But for trumps explicitly ideological Muslim ban you merely put

> 2017–2020 — travel bans, refugee reductions, asylum restrictions, public-charge expansion.

I am going to make the claim that you are pushing propaganda. If you had included the presidents for every section I wouldn’t think so.

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The whole period of Obama's presidency was also skipped.

The largest Muslim country in the world is Indonesia, it's quite odd that it wasn't included in Trump's Muslim ban. Obama's administration was the one that made the list of the seven countries that were banned before Trump even became president.

You won’t find me arguing against the fact that Trump haphazardly implemented his ideas and was incompetent. If you’re trying to argue it wasn’t a Muslim ban because Indonesia wasn’t in it, then I’ll just have to point you to Trump himself calling for a ban on Muslims and then implementing a ban on travelers from countries that were all Muslim.