Ed West Ed West

The immigration debate shouldn’t be sugar-coated

Do you like Skittles? Do you like them so much you’d eat one from a packet even if you knew a couple were poisoned? Makes u think, ey?

This was the analogy Donald Trump Jr made this week about refugees and terrorism, a tweet which caused anger, not least from the company that makes Skittles, who responded: ‘Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We don’t feel it’s an appropriate analogy.’

This particular meme seems to have originated among feminists, who were making the point that it’s no good saying that most men aren’t violent rapists, because enough of them are to make problems: ‘Imagine a bowl of M&Ms. 10 per cent of them are poisoned. Go

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