Question, when did we go from "white supremacist" to "white nationalist"?
"never again, to us that's it"Miller is Jewish, yet instrumental in creating concentration camps for brown people? WOW, just fucking WOW.
Miller is Jewish, yet instrumental in creating concentration camps for brown people? WOW, just fucking WOW.
She quoted a rap lyric.What has she said in the past that was anti-semitic?
This should be good
Calling a Jewish man a white supremacist is stupid but Miller is awful. Should be interesting exchange
Gotta protect the white man at all costs, otherwise this country goes downhill.I'm so fucking sick of politicians trying to burn this country to the ground with their racism. Fuck.
We can't look into Stephen Miller's heart, or search X-rays of his body for signs of "racist bones." But we do know that he has tried to ban Chinese students from American universities and pushed for the deportation of Vietnamese refugees who have been in the United States for decades — a policy with no national-security, economic, or assimilationist rationale. We also know that Miller reportedly told a colleague, "I would be happy if not a single refugee foot ever again touched American soil"; and a middle-school classmate, that they couldn't be friends anymore because of the classmate's "Latino heritage." And we know that he wrote in his high-school yearbook, quoting Teddy Roosevelt, "There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."
Given all this, it seems both fair to describe Miller as a white nationalist and nearly impossible to ascribe a non-racist motivation to his political behavior.
It is true that Stephen Miller is Jewish, and that white nationalists have historically targeted Jews for persecution. But this does not mean that Miller cannot be a white nationalist. There was a time in the U.S. when white supremacists were virulently anti-Catholic, and considered the Irish to be a subhuman race. That has not made it impossible for an Irish Catholic like Steve Bannon to openly endorse white-nationalist novels and thinkers. "White people" is not a coherent biological or ethnic category. It is a social caste with semi-porous borders. And by all appearances, Miller identifies with that caste. More to the point, there is no evidence whatsoever that Omar directed her criticism toward Miller because of his Jewish heritage and not because of his (undisputed) status as the White House's most influential and hardline immigration adviser.
But the GOP's decision to brand Omar's comments as anti-Semitic is something much worse than unfair or unsupportable. It is confirmation that the party sees anti-Semitism less as a scourge to be combatted than as a political cudgel to be exploited.
Last fall, Stephen Miller encouraged the president to focus his midterm message on the threat posed by a caravan of Central American migrants. Trump proceeded to tell supporters that this caravan was an "invasion," that "the Democrats had something to do with it," and that he "wouldn't be surprised" if the Jewish billionaire George Soros was financing this "invasion" in an attempt to rig the midterm elections.
Lee Zeldin did not object to these remarks. In his view, it was not anti-Semitic (or even irresponsible) for the president to suggest that a wealthy Jew was orchestrating an invasion of the United States, using nonwhite immigrants as his shock troops — even though the president was saying such things just days after a neo-Nazi had murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue because he believed that Jews were orchestrating an invasion of the United States, using nonwhite immigrants as their shock troops. Instead, Zeldin chose to demonstrate his solidarity with American Jews last fall by inviting Steve Bannon to headline one of his campaign events.
It is worth noting that even if Trump's revanchist nativism didn't contain traces of anti-Semitism, it would remain a form of politics that endangers Diaspora Jews. Jewish reactionaries like Stephen Miller might be able to assimilate to the form of Americanism that Trump champions. But the vast majority of American Jews are liberal, cosmopolitan, and secularist. Which is to say: They are the "globalist" villains in Trumpism's Manichaean fable of American decline.
And even if Trump's politics did not endanger Jews, anyone who has ever uttered "never again" in earnest would still be obliged to oppose him. If you are a Jew who has "zero tolerance" for anti-Semitism — but infinite tolerance for a president who describes immigrants as an "infestation," and directs extrajudicial cruelty at their children — then you aren't so different from the Nazis' apologists. You share their conviction that some populations are entitled to basic rights, while others are not.
"White people" is not a coherent biological or ethnic category. It is a social caste with semi-porous borders.
Rep. Omar has said anti-semitic things in the past and I do find her problematic based on those statements, but calling this statement anti-semitic is a stretch at best.[/QUOTE]
It's purposefully obtuse and intellectually dishonest, at best. Just another way for bigots to try and conflate things.
Not even once
Never succumb to the pressure Omar, cause you're absolutely right.
Calling out AIPAC isn't anti-Semitic, it's the moral thing to do.Rep. Omar has said anti-semitic things in the past and I do find her problematic based on those statements, but calling this statement anti-semitic is a stretch at best.
Rep. Omar has said anti-semitic things in the past and I do find her problematic based on those statements, but calling this statement anti-semitic is a stretch at best.
Rep. Omar has said anti-semitic things in the past and I do find her problematic based on those statements, but calling this statement anti-semitic is a stretch at best.
You do know there are white Jews and black Jews right?Calling a Jewish man a white supremacist is stupid but Miller is awful. Should be interesting exchange
All of these stuff just seems childish from both parties. Trying to run a country, but they rather resort to name-calling and finger-pointing, it's crazy to think that anything gets down in Washington.
This person is this label... that person is that label.. most of the time it's overblown, but they can't get out of their childish behaviors. Everyone is a victim, everyone blames someone else for their issues, it's ridiculous.
"White people" is not a coherent biological or ethnic category. It is a social caste with semi-porous borders.
Lee Zeldin did not object to these remarks. In his view, it was not anti-Semitic (or even irresponsible) for the president to suggest that a wealthy Jew was orchestrating an invasion of the United States, using nonwhite immigrants as his shock troops — even though the president was saying such things just days after a neo-Nazi had murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue because he believed that Jews were orchestrating an invasion of the United States, using nonwhite immigrants as their shock troops.
I believe projecting is the term you are looking for. Or at least that is the term closest I think would apply.
Latina (non white) Jew here. Not many people know there are diverse Jews beyond Ashkenazi. Its a literal struggle to have my Sfardi identity taken seriously by non Jews because they have no idea what the fuck that is, because Ashkenazic centric representation of Jews is that of a neutered, nebbish, man of eastern european descent. I can only imagine how much harder it must be for Mizrahi or Ethiopian Jews. Shit isnt being helped at all by Netanyahu's Ashkenazi superiority rhetoric. Seriously fuck that guy. And fuck the GOP. You absolutely CAN be a white supremacist and a Jew. It is possible to recognize the persecution and violence, in modern memory, of Jews while recognizing the racism that exists within Jewish communities. It also inspires a backlash of Jewish victimhood that undermines any attempt to reckon in a thoughtful and rigorous way with simultaneous Jewish privilege: Jews can't be racist, the thinking goes, because they aren't allowed to be white.Latino (but White passing) Jew here.
Reminder that White Jews are White. We are targetted by supremacists, but still benefit from White privilege due to not having to worry about systemic racism.
Claiming that Jews aren't White is a slippery slope that kinda always leads to the erasure of non-White Jews who don't benefit from White privilege.
So, yes, Stephen Miller is racist and you can definitely be Jewish and racist.
Besides the fact that "White" doesn't completely overlap with concepts of an "Aryan race", even within Nazism there were Jewish collaborators. See, for example, the Zagiew.White Nationalism and White Supremacy are usually associated with Neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic ideologies which would seemingly preclude Jews from partaking