now before all you lefties go apoplectic let me remind you that this is an analogy. Trump junior knows that skittles and people are not the same. He is analogy is illustrating that in a group a refugees if some are going to kill you... should you take the whole group in.
Donald Trump Jr.'s terrorist-Skittle analogy is completely wrong Let’s do some Skittle math! The image posted by Trump pictures a small bowl containing perhaps 100 Skittles. Assuming that three of said Skittles could kill you, eating a handful from this tiny bowl would, indeed, be risky. Here’s the thing, though: The image drastically oversells the "risk" posed by these Skittles (read: refugees). A report released last week by the Cato Institute measured the risk to Americans posed by refugees. The report found that an American’s chances of being killed by a refugee in a terrorist attack in any given year are 1 in 3.64 billion. America’s murder rate — at 4.5 per 100,000 capita — is about 163,800 times higher. As the Washington Post’s Philip Bump points out, adhering to Trump’s analogy, a bowl with three deadly Skittles (refugees) in it would need to contain 10.93 billion Skittles. Bump calculated this to be the equivalent of 1.5 Olympic-size swimming pools full of the candy. This would equate to a bowl of Skittles roughly 246 feet long, 123 feet high, and 9 feet deep. Below, Vox graphics editor Javier Zarracina has depicted what that bowl would look like. Donald Trump Jr. (6-foot-1) is included for scale, along with the original bowl in his tweet. And just for fun, here is what this gargantuan bowl of Skittles would look next to Washington, DC’s (yuuuuge) Trump International Hotel: According to Bump’s analysis, Wrigley produces 200 million Skittles a day. It would take the company 54 days to produce the number of Skittles necessary to fill this bowl — and only three would pose a risk. Or you could think of it this way: You’d have to go through 202,407,407 bags of Skittles (each of which contains about 54 candies) in order to find the three individual pieces that are contaminated. Trump’s tweet, much like the rhetoric of his father, insinuates that inviting refugees to the United States is a deadly risk not worth taking. But that risk, in reality, is infinitesimally small. Note: Several readers have argued that Trump Jr.'s tweet solely refers to Syrian refugees. In that case: Since October of 2015, the United States has admitted roughly 8,000 Syrian refugees. Not one has committed an act of terrorism. That's zero deadly Skittles.
I say let all refugees come to the U.S., but only as many as citizens of the U.S. are willing to let refugees reside in their actual residence! This way, liberals can feel good about actually helping others directly...letting them stay in their homes...instead of always telling "other people" or the government to do the "helping". Liberals...this is a great idea for you to help humanity! If you agree...!
that is the most statistically ignorant thing I have ever read. Besides the fact... the analogy was about terrorists not terror attacks.... how the hell can any fool pretend to estimate the risk posed by a terrorist with a dirty bomb or biological weapon? its just so stupid and so dangerous to use numbers in such an irresponsible manner. additionally they were looking at time period of 45 years most of which looks nothing like now. Tech was different, the middle east was different... war was different. additionally how the hell can they pretend to estimate the risk when we are bringing more immigrants from terror prone regions every month. Even if you insist on the almost irrelevant look back idea... lets do those numbers... Finally in the last few months we had terrorist event in San Bernadino, Mn and New york and Florida. (maybe more that is off the top of my head.) 49 in Orlando were killed (and 53 more injured) and 14 more in San Bernadino. So just in those 2 terrror attacks alone ... thats 318 million divided by 63. So that one in 5 million in just the last few months... and your numbnuts article was saying 1 in 3.64 billion.
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Blah, blah, blah. Figures lie, liars figure. We all know what he meant. The system is broken and we need to close the doors until it gets fixed.
Blah, blah, blah. Figures lie, liars figure. We all know what he meant. The system is broken and we need to close the doors until it gets fixed.