Historical Opinion

@HistOpinion I´d like to see the same poll a few years later. You would´t happen to know where to find that?

@V_Brueggemann FWIW, 50% of respondents in a Gallup poll of ’56 said they’d take in Hungarian refugees. Cold War changed things.

@HistOpinion Sure, but what about Jewish Refugees towards the end of the war ?

@V_Brueggemann A quick search doesn't turn up polls on J refugees coming to US, but Americans widely supported allowing them into Palestine.

@HistOpinion @cryptopix source?

@polexa @cryptopix @hardsci @HistOpinion Source is referenced in the attachment: Fortune Magazine, July 1938.

@HistOpinion @sserve Not quite analogous - 1938 was based in large part on anti-Semitism. They didn't need to worry about terrorism.

@JeffSiegel40 @HistOpinion @sserve 90 people are being shot to death every day in USA - who needs terrorists?

@Visitkarte @HistOpinion @sserve Let's not confuse two very serious but very different problems.

@JeffSiegel40 @HistOpinion @sserve How is it different? Does it hurt less to be shot and killed by a mass shooter than by a terrorist?

@Visitkarte @HistOpinion @sserve The causes of urban violence and terrorism are completely different. Only similarity is the bullets.

@JeffSiegel40 Keep telling yourself that. The only real difference is xenophobia. It's nearly universally young, frustrated, violent men.

@Visitkarte I didn't say the perpetrators weren't young, violent men. We agree. But do we need to import more of them?