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My heart breaks for these families. I cannot truly relate, but I see the wrongness of it all.

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The youtube comments make me despair for humanity, but at least Kurzgesagt had a fantastic reply

"One really positive thing about this video that it makes the racist portion of our viewership go away. We are glad to see you leave, please don't come back as long as you are full of hate – this video was not meant for you. It was meant for the decent people who want to work towards a better world."

Such an awesome comment.

Might be lies but an fyi:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/09/20/441457924/gulf-states-fend-off-criticism-about-doing-little-for-syrian-refugees


"The Saudi Foreign Ministry challenged the charges by issuing official numbers that are impossible to verify independently, saying "the Kingdom has received around 2.5 million Syrians since the beginning of the conflict." A Saudi scholar told the BBC that thousands of Syrians receive free health care and education in Saudi Arabia.

An op-ed in the New York Times by Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE's ambassador in Washington, contested the widely reported statistic of "zero" refugees in the Gulf. "Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, the U.A.E. has welcomed more than 100,000 Syrians, joining 140,000 already residing in the emirates," he wrote. "The Emirates' per capita commitment to the Syrian crisis exceeds virtually every other country's participation."