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This is exactly why I find this administration disgusting besides the fact that it is completely tone deaf. However, there is plenty of evidence that this is nothing new for Americans, even though we are all immigrants.
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1850s
historicipswich.net/2024/11/02/kno…
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1870s
theconversation.com/a-century-ago-…
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1880s. Caption reads "The Anti-Chinese Wall — The American Wall Goes Up as the Chinese Original Goes Down."
latimes.com/projects/la-na…
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1900s. Caption reads "Immigration statistics for the past year show that the influx of foreigners was the greatest in our history, and also that the hard-working peasants are now being supplanted by the criminals and outlaws of all Europe."
npr.org/2019/07/16/742…
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1920s
nps.gov/articles/closi…
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That should be sufficient evidence that we are not the welcoming country we claim to be toward what sociologists would call "the other."
historicipswich.net/2024/11/02/kno…
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I would argue that this demonization of "the other" through our history really makes the US a nation of hate. I've paid attention to this as a problem in many other countries as I've traveled abroad.
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American hate of "the other" is what inspired the Nazis.
history.com/articles/how-t…
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Now we have come full circle and our government is using the techniques of Joseph Goebbels...
totalmilitaryinsight.com/axis-powers-pr…
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...and telling lies about "the other."
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We know how that ends...
docsteach.org/documents/docu…
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Let's get off this path before we have another Kristallnacht.
npr.org/2013/11/09/241…
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
americanart.si.edu/artwork/those-…
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