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I'd never heard of him before and only just found out the people whose immigration he so strongly opposes are seeking the same kind of political asylum as his grandfather did when he fled the Holocaust.
[EDIT] ... although maybe I should have heard about him when @Rex posted a tweet of his earlier in this thread.
[EDIT EDIT] Even more embarrasingly I posted about him too. He's just so damned forgettable
[EDIT] ... although maybe I should have heard about him when @Rex posted a tweet of his earlier in this thread.
[EDIT EDIT] Even more embarrasingly I posted about him too. He's just so damned forgettable
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Reminds me of Stephen Miller's Jewish ancestors fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe (prior to the Holocaust, mind) and making it to the US just a couple of years before the America Firsters that Dr. Seuss drew in his editorial cartoonist days closed the borders off to Jews.
Edit: I'm not so vindictive that I'd oppose refugee settlement here based on the slim chance we'd end up with more hateful ****ers like Miller and Mandel in a few generations.
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I appreciate the sentiment here but I don't think this is actually hypocrisy. Neither approved of or opposed their ancestors coming to this country, but it's not a stretch to conclude that they've benefitted from it. It's more insidious than hypocrisy. I don't know that there's actually a term for it.
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Yes. My apologies if I didn't clearly state what I was suggesting before. Let me try again.
Miller and Mandel are likely here because their ancestors chose to come here for the opportunities available. The potential for future generations to suffer descendants of these refugees as despicable as Miller and Mandel isn't reason to oppose their settlement here. Saying it as I did was an external response to a hypothetical internal idea of my own.
Seems it may have been a swing and a miss on my part.
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His name came up recently, actually. He was having a paddy on Twitter about Afghan men "coming over here" to Oklahoma with their child brides.
It would have been rude to point out that the then-18-year old Jackson Lahmeyer married 17-year old Heather Grubb in 2010 who, as a minor, required a parental signature of consent to marry. Of course they've since split and he has five kids with his second wife, Kendra Lahmeyer (nee King).
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These takes are sooooo bad. "Now you give a damn" as if a 19 year old Omar should've been there in NYC when it happened to "prove her patriotism" or something.Tell me you're a worthless piece of ** without actually telling me you're a worthless piece of **.
The Homosexuality thread, obvs.
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I suspect the implication is that Omar didn't give a damn when she said "some people did something," indeed this phrase was widely panned by right-wing media and political figures as "downplaying the events of September 11th." The problem is that that notion breaks down when you present those four words in their full context, which was Omar calling out those who used wrongs perpetrated by some as justification for wrongs perpetrated against others. What she actually said was factually inaccurate, but context shows the aim wasn't to downplay.
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