Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, who is an educated man and well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.
...The Glossers came to the U.S. just a few years before the fear and prejudice of the “America First” nativists of the day closed U.S. borders to Jewish refugees. Had Wolf-Leib waited, his family would likely have been murdered by the Nazis along with all but seven of the 2,000 Jews who remained in Antopol. I would encourage Stephen to ask himself if the chanting, torch-bearing Nazis of Charlottesville, whose support his boss seems to court so cavalierly, do not envision a similar fate for him....
Comments
John Legend✔@johnlegend
Beautiful essay by Stephen Miller's uncle. Shame on Stephen Miller.
by NCD on Mon, 08/13/2018 - 4:47pm
This comes on the heels of Melania’s parents entering the country via chain migration, a program opposed by Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/10/politics/immigration-lawyer-donald-trump-cnntv/index.html
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 08/13/2018 - 5:18pm
The uncle hits on that fact too. Two good parts of the essay:
On an Eritrean refugee the uncle helped and knows, mocking Stephens stories of his "cafeteria traumas" arguing politics in HS in California:
On Trump dehumanizing immigrants like the Nazis did with Jews:
by NCD on Mon, 08/13/2018 - 6:25pm
This has gone pretty "viral" even without adding in social media, as I bounce around news sites, I am seeing all the big media outlets seem to have done secondary stories on it and on those sites the story seems to be on those most popular lists.
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 12:43am
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 10:26am
The "America First' movement and the isolationist Republican Party led by Idaho Republican William Borah opposed sending Britain aircraft or weapons for defense. The right wing Republican isolationist "MAGA" crowd of the 30's in America were FDR's major challenge in stopping Hitler.
From the book Roosevelt's Second Act, by Richard Moe, on the Republican platform of 1940, and H. L. Mencken's evaluation of how weak and sleazy it was on helping the democracies. Note the Republican platform statement was copied almost word for word from an isolationist newspaper advertisement placed covertly by Nazi agents in US papers.
Isolationist right wing America Frist marchers in NYC parading with American flags and swastikas
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by NCD on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 11:29am
Thank. Was totally unaware of this fact.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 11:47am
Anyone with a halfways decent education can see your comment as a silly red herring to divert attention away from the op-ed that has been so successful because it echoes the powerful classic Emma Lazarus/Statue of Liberty narrative. I think Ronnie Reagan would give you a big fail. Try something else, this one is not going to work. Actually pretty pitiful to drag "Exodus" in to compete. Especially since anyone who knows anything about that whole thing knows that plenty of Jews found refuge here during that time on a wily-nily ad hoc merit basis.
If you don't get into nuance on this website, you will get few if any buyers. Most of us here are into deconstructing the narratives, not playing with them.
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 3:08pm
The poverty of Miller's "architecture" that is really a mishmash of enforcement instructions from a chaotic executive branch while Congress abdicates its duty to fix the law becomes all too clear when dealing with foreign adoptions:
A Colorado couple adopted a child from Peru. Now they fear she could be deported.
By Amy B. Wang @ WashingtonPost.com, Aug. 14
Makes me wonder if Miller might be okay with making it work out that U.S. citizens can adopt Russian babies again?
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 3:34pm
The irony..!!!! Of course, there is no orphan, no miscarried fetus, no baby, no infant, no brain dead Terri Sciavo, no baby Gar the Republicans would not use, imprison or abandon to gain some tiny iota of partisan advantage with their base of imbeciles, bigots and reprogrammable deplorables.
by NCD on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 4:35pm
Funny you should mention the reprogrammable deplorables meme. On that I highly recommend the latest episode of Showtime's "Our Cartoon President" which I watched yesterday:
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 4:59pm