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Thread #155749   Message #3669170
Posted By: Steve Shaw
14-Oct-14 - 07:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Supreme Court & gay marriage decision
Subject: RE: BS: Supreme Court & gay marriage decision
Regarding compulsion, people are being forced to undergo invasive treatment just for being African or arriving in this country from Africa......I agree with this testing...

They are not forced, they are not treated at all (let alone invasively) and, overwhelmingly, they are not "tested", save by having their temperatures taken. The word you're struggling to get to is "screened". When I was on my way to my holiday in Italy the big security scanning machine went bananas as I walked through on account of the zips on my shorts' pockets, and I was searched head to toe. That is a damn sight more "invasive" than any "ordeal" a person from west Africa has to endure, yet I wasn't bothered. By the way, it isn't "Africa", nor "being African", as you state. If you can't get a simple thing like this right it doesn't say much for all that chucking around of statistics you like to indulge in.