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marcus816's avatar

“Demagogues might sometimes change their victims but their tactics remain the same.”

Same as it ever was.

There are stupid people that aren’t racist, but there are no racists that aren’t stupid people.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Thanks, Stephen, for this excellent historical breakdown. There must always be The Other.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

And also: What kind of person is inspired to contemplate his hatred for immigrants while he’s watching a warm, traditional Christmas special with his children?

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SethTriggs's avatar

Racists often hate art, but because art reaches people they try to invoke and coopt it. The result is often extremely sad. But it's just another way that Herr Miller is a multidimensionally awful person.

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Marianne Giesler's avatar

Miller’s comment was aimed that ‘brown’ people, not white immigrants.

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Kari Bentley-Quinn's avatar

He’s such a piece of shit. And I’m old enough to remember how Italians were persecuted here until they won us all over with their food 😂

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

Yes, Miller is a racist and is stupid, and my observation is that racism and stupidity do indeed overlap. My father said that he believed at the heart of racism is an inferiority complex - the fear that those that the racist hates and CLAIMS is inferior, is actually better than the said racist hates.

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marcus816's avatar

As I’ve mentioned before, white culture says it wants a “merit-based” society, but that’s is an obvious lie.

Whenever BIPOC people are allowed to compete on a level playing field their rates of success far exceeds that of their numerical representation.

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Stephen Bero's avatar

The beloved It’s a Wonderful Life has a subtext of condemning anti-Italian bigotry, made explicit when Mr. Potter, tempting George Bailey to come over to his dark side, blurts out "bunch of garlic eaters" to refer to the Building and Loan's clientele.

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ArgieBargie's avatar

Naziferatu and his ilk believe in a utopian version of America that never existed, one in which only the "right" kind of immigrants were allowed in the country, and minorities "knew their place."

Moreover, his self-hatred (and hatred of others) is driven by insecurity, and a deep desire to be accepted by the Aryans that control the Republican party.

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Emily Taylor's avatar

Christmas jeer! Lmao exactly

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BrandoG's avatar

Unfortunately a large number of Italian Americans buy into the right wing BS that their ancestors were very different from the Third World immigrants of today, much as many Hispanics buy into the idea that they’re not lumped in with the Hispanic immigrants that Trump is deporting and even killing on the high seas (if you’re dumb enough to believe they’re killing people in those boats because they think the boats are “drug boats” you just might be a MSM “journalist”).

Shouldn’t be surprising that greaseball Miller pushes that myth—he’s convinced himself that Jews aren’t lumped in with the “undesirables”.

The Martin-Sinatra special (in fact the whole Rat Pack with the exception of Lawford) is a symbol of how well once-hated immigrants and POCs (Davis Jr) can not only become beloved by the mainstream but openly champion civil rights (Martin and Sinatra had a sharp break with the Kennedys, who they’d campaigned for, when the cowardly new president refused to allow Davis Jr attend his inaugural ball—JFK was afraid his southern racist allies would object because Davis’s date was his white wife).

Miller, being a scumbag, just sees a holiday special where there were no (obvious) Hispanics and that satisfied him.

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ArgieBargie's avatar

Many Hispanics seem to believe they will be exempt from discrimination if they attempt to join the MAGA racist boat, even as they see friends and family incarcerated and deported in the process.

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