mr. Taylor falsely equates "people with inquiring minds" with intelligence and compassion as a ruse to promote his brand.
Ms. McHugh has the true inquiring mind moving from a narrow sector of society into a broader enlightenment of what the United States is and stands for in the world.
This is the type of person Mr. Trump has invited into the upper echelons of our government and surrounds himself with.
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You mean the WHITE SUPREMATIST website cited by Stephen miller.
Call it what is is. A Jewish person, non Arian, has a website that is against his own people.
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Who might have guessed that Stephen Miller would have (had) ties to racists? Isn't that why Trumps holds Miller so near and dear?
As a man of color, it is difficult to understand why the ruling class cannot get rid of a white supremacist like Stephen Miller from the White House? Liberals and conservatives are humming and hawing about the Miller issue to hide the truth. America is a racist country, and the majority of white people want to keep that way.
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Hey Jared Taylor: "Enquiring minds want to know" was an advertising slogan used in the '80s by the National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid." Is this the kind of reference material you're pushing?
Do Mr Miller as a Jew knows that White Supremacists are very often anti Semite?
Do Mr Miller as a Jew knows that the Immigration law sign by Calvin Coolidge in 1924 affected also the Jews coming from Eastern Europe?
Do Mr Miller as a Jew knows that the same law was an obstacle for Jews trying to escape the Nazis after 1933?
The poem excerpt “The Snake” rings true in many ways. It could just as easily have been written by a Trump ex-wife or a disaffected former Trump voter. Numbers of both camps which are sure to keep growing by the day, and with each passing tweet.
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As someone who had volunteered with refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Congo, Tanzania and elsewhere over almost 3 years, I find the comparison to a poisonous snake as repugnant to say the least. These desperate folks have amazing stories of fear, flight, courage, determination, and perseverance. They are so very happy to finally be here - upbeat despite having stories of difficulties we can barely imagine enduring. They are, also, exactly the kind of people this country will need going forward, i.e., young, hard working, persistent, and working hard to embrace their new land.
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How ironic, in this case it is Miller who is the snake. America is still paying the price for the sins of slavery. I pray that we can all live together in peace as brothers and sisters.
Blue wave 2020 !
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@joe parrott - but an interesting question develops from this article. How do you change the mind of one who recalls the color of the skin rather than the words from the mouth of the originals like Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams and others. And we certainly know how many of those gentlemen felt about the black man and the Natives. I think many of the readers of "American Renaissance" probably think there's a lot of talk coming from both sides of the same mouth in the equation: "All men are created equal". How do you talk to those readers?
What a strange twist on reality. Where did Mr. Miller's ancestors come from? And what were said about them back then?
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"Peter Brimelow, ... VDARE, believes that diversity has weakened the United States", except, of course, when it comes to Olympic medals...
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About the 1924 law: "The three decades . . . from the mid forties to the mid seventies, were the golden age of manual labor." Why were times so good for blue collar workers? To some extent they were helped by the state of the world economy. They were also helped by a scarcity of labor created by the severe immigration restrictions imposed by the [ Johnson�Reed ] Immigration Act of 1924." Paul Krugman, Conscience of a Liberal, Chapter 3 (pages 48-49)
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LOL, wouldn't the 1924 immigration law prevent Melania Trump & her whole family from coming to the USA? and Stephen Miller likes that law???
Well, she is an illegal anyway, because she lied on her immigration papers, claiming a college degree which she never received.
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Miller represents the republican party and their southern strategy. Remember that when you go the the voting booth next year.
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Thanks for the referrals! I love VDare and AmRen!
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I recommend journalists wear a string of garlic around their necks for protection if they interview miller in person.
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This is a country of immigrants. Immigrants make our country great. Put that on your hat Mr. Trump. Keep up the pressure for Stephen Miller to resign and crawl back under the rock he came out from under.
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@Bonnie
What are the metrics by which greatness is defined?
The evidence is compelling that quality of life - affordability of university, of homes, ability to support a family on one salary - has declined since 1970.
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The NYTimes is spreading gossip about this man on what might have happened and making it seem like the truth. The NYTimes in supposed to report impartial news. What happened to integrity?
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@R.Kenney
His e-mails are not "gossip." They are the truth.
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Stephen Miller clearly does not believe his own statements. He is too intelligent and there is too much evidence to rebut them. We will never know what his real motivations were. Was it bigotry? Was is just self-promotion? Probably both. This was one of the most dangerous people in politics, and the one who diminished Trump most - though Trump is already so feeble - from proximity.
Mr. Miller will definitely remain a presence, but fortunately, he was too obvious in his ethnic hatred. He'll turn toxic fast in the light.
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Out of all the things that could have caught my attention in this article, I immediately became focused on the reference to immigration restrictions in the last century on Southern and Eastern Europeans. In particular, as the article states, such immigrants were considered “nonwhite”. I am a brown skinned descendant of Southern Italians who were discriminated against and considered “nonwhite”. I therefor relate to and am sensitive to harsh measures taken against other immigrants.
But this brings me to an issue that constantly frustrates me. There are tens of millions of us who were discriminated against by the white society of the times. Yet, some omniscient power has reset the ethic classification and suddenly those millions of us of us who were considered nonwhite are now - suddenly - white. I now get accused of having the very privilege which was very deliberately denied to my ethnic class. The definitions of today just toss us into the white category alongside those whose ancestors hated us. Diversity now is no longer expressed in terms of the many many very diverse often oppressed ethnic groups which have made up this country. Now it is simple, either you are black brown Latino, Asian or white. That’s it. And all of us historically discriminated against ethnicities, well, we are just ignored and tossed into the heap.
When if ever will we realize that the compulsion to put us all into predetermined categories will perpetuate our societal divisions?
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@Gino G I definitely agree. I am of Irish descent. I can't think of anyone "whiter" than an Irishman :) yet the Irish were subjected to virulent discrimination in the 19th century. It seems clear that arbitrary discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, or gender, is senseless, illogical, and plain stupid.
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Stephen Miller should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Beautiful. I agree completely.
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Sessions and Miller both are proponents of "nation-state populism," (as Miller has stated in interviews). Given that a nation-state is by definition culturally and ethnically homogeneous, that's about as clear of a euphemism for fascism as you'll ever encounter.
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@ERC
I agree with your sentiment generally. However, "Given that a nation-state is by definition culturally and ethnically homogeneous...," is an inaccurate statement. Examples abound but I'll choose the Austrian (not really) Empire as a starting place.
Have you ever visited Vienna or read about the Habsburgs? Not exactly the model of national statehood in the homogeneous mold. I believe we fought a world war over the issue. Two in fact. That's before we discuss statehood in the Middle East.
My view is Miller and Sessions are both proponents of Great Awakening Protestant domination characteristic of American-European contrarianism. US history is defined by attempting, sometimes at great fault, to be distinctly not-European. Miller, despite Jewish ancestry, reflects the extremist WASP view perfectly. He simply lacks compassion and remorse.
None of these traits are particularly fascist. You need to be popular in order to be fascist. Nowhere does the Trump Administration ring popular. Even Hitler had a popular majority before converting Germany into a totalitarian dictatorship. Miller might be a racist totalitarian but he's not a fascist. Not by the philosophical definition anyway.
In honesty, FDR was a better fascist than anyone in the Trump administration. He reorganized the entire US political economic system into a war machine that won to wars absolutely while enshrining civil liberties and economic prosperity on millions. He did so without becoming a totalitarian.
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@ERC ..for good background on this and most of what we see developing around this administration please read .."Democracy in Chains" (N. Maclean)
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@Andy
Absolutely correct. Most comments that use the term "fascism" are by people who clearly have not studied fascism and don't know its essentials.
The ACA for example is a fascist program while the British NHS is not.
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Miller is a right-thinking America, a patriot, and a man for our times.
God bless you, Stephen!
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@steve
Miller is every ugly, nationalist/supremacist idea our ancestors fought against in WWII and the antithesis of patriot. History will condemn him.
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Ever notice how obvious white supremacists like “Agustus” and “steve” always post anonymously because they’re too scared to stand behind their beliefs?
Guess that’s the courageous “master race” at work.
LOL.
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Why isn't Trump being impeached for his open racism? The only "snake" I see is Trump, Miller, and his backward, hateful ilk.
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If one reviews Miller's ancestry, the history includes escape from persecution. Yiddish was the spoken language of his blood relatives. He comes from a family of immigrants. His self loathing has expanded to include a loathing towards the "other". He is pathetic, sinful, ignorant and hate filled. He will disappear...and leave behind a morality tale....a piece of history which teaches the outcome of human folly. We can and must do better.
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Stephen Miller is indeed the Swamp Creature.
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Stephen Miller has been denounced by close family members for his relationships with bigots and his participation in Trumps white supremacy / nationalist agenda. Need one say more?
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Mr. Miller is merely a tool to be used and discarded when he is no longer useful. Hasn’t he learned that lesson from working for Donald Trump? Mr. Trump’s usefulness is being debated and his tenure as President appears quite limited.
I wonder how much of a revelation these messages are for Mr. Miller’s new fiancée?
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Just the way he looks; the expression on his face, the nearly constant tilt of his head (like Cheney’s), the steely coldness in his eyes tells me everything I need to know. Period.
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Why not call Miller what he is, a white supremacist. White nationalist is way too polite.
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Before non-white people became the primary source of newcomers to North America, thick-accented Eastern Europeans were the main targets of meanspirited Anglo-Saxon bigotry. As a 1950s immigrant to Canada from what’s now Slovenia, my late father experienced such mistreatment.
Albeit no Stanley Milgram, I believe that if Canada were to hypothetically revert back to a primarily-white populace, if not some VDARE whites-only utopia, Eastern Europeans with a Slavic accent would inevitably again become the main target of the dominant Euro-Canadian ethnicity.
There’s no greater difference amongst humans than race; remove that factor, however, and left are less obvious politics-of-scale differences over which discord can still flourish. For those who doubt this, history is rife with horrific, even genocidal, instances.
I feel that if the world’s population was somehow reduced to just a few city blocks of seemingly similar residents, there’d eventually be some form of notable politics-of-scale inter-neighbourhood hostilities.
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One despairs at the ignorance and duplicity of journalists these days -- and the ignorance that perpetuates among the general public.
What is the foundation for the immigration reforms being pushed by Trump, Miller and Sessions? The recommendations of the 1995-96 Commission on Immigration Reform which was headed up the powerful, Democratic)d African-American Barbara Jordan (D-TX). And before that the recommendations of the 1972 Rockefeller Commission on Population and the American Future. And again in the 1990s the recommendations of Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development.
The authors and many commenters are, in effect, calling those commissions racist because they suggested LEGAL immigration rates should be cut by more than 50%.
For summaries of their recommendations, see:https://www.capsweb.org/blog/three-us-national-commissions-calling-immigration-reductions-and-us-population-stabilization
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@Stuart Hurlbert
well said . . .
Hulbert,
It is the racial and religious targeting in Trump administration immigration policy, not the percentages that is the problem. Muslim ban is not the same as a simple numeric target applied across the board to all immigrants. Muslim ban is inherently biased against a religious group. The bigotry and racism of right wing talk radio and now Fox and friends is anti American. These people cling to erroneous views and the result has been mass shootings in our country and around the world. If you want to live in a thuggish autocracy, move to the Philippines. Duterte doesn't bother with all that "laws" claptrap, he encourages vigilante violence and has the body count to show for it. Oh, right. Philippinos are not white. Nevermind.
Suppose we rid D.C. of these racists (like Stephen Miller), and cheats, and greedy lowlifes, it will still take years, if not decades, to restore the country's basic values. The economic inequalities have worsened, the care of our natural resources and our infrastructure has been abandoned, and the real hatred between the 30% of Trump supporters and the rest of us may be permanent.
I haven't heard any great ideas about how to get from here to there. Perhaps have the FCC dump FOX Corporation (they do their best to sow division, with the end goal being profit), create a third party of ex-Republicans and more moderate Democrats, make this period in history a mandatory part of primary education - a period we never want to return to, and lastly, show mugshots and videos of Trump and his associates walking around various prison yards. The need to change the minds of the 'dirty-30' percent is paramount. I am really surprised and saddened that so many are immune to facts, and immune to shame.
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@Jpkelly
TThe main fact is that we are overpopulated.
“...race based science...”
Is there such a thing? Don’t think so.
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It was obvious from the first version of the Muslim ban that Miller had white nationalist tendencies. My biggest question now, though, is who on earth has agreed to marry him?
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This article lacked a few important footnotes but I will be happy to supply them:
1. Donald Trump's grandfather was an immigrant from the Bavarian part of Germany.
2. Donald Trump's mother was an immigrant from Scotland.
3. Donald Trump's first wife Ivana was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia.
4. Donald Trump's third wife Melania is an immigrant from Slovenia and her parent's were chain immigrants following Melania.
3. Stephen Miller's grandparents were Jewish refugees from Nazi overrun Belarus in Russia. He has been repudiated by his own family.
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@ernieh1
Yes and his grandfather went back to Germany and got married but he was not allowed to stay. Germany said he left left Germany to avoid the military draft and he must leave. They left and went back to the US.
In all fairness white nationalist should here on out be referred to as White Defense and Pride.
WDP could certainly catch on if the MSM were fair enough to use the term.
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John,
You could also describe your beliefs as “white power.”
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John, what are whites defending themselves from? Too much wealth and power, poor things, I guess it’s true, it’s never enough. We need to call racism for what it is.
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Sorry John,
It doesn't matter what you call a racist organization. it is still racist.
That Miller is an opportunist and misanthrope goes without saying. But I beleive he is also a white supremacist, who despite the openly anti-semitic positions of his fellow white supremacists believes that he has a place in the "American New Order" by showing his fervent loyalty to anti-immigration "Americanism". Look at how some German Jews deluded themselves about the true intentions of Nazi ideology. We also see this in Trump when he blathers about his Jewish daughter and husband, so stupid that he absolves himself of anti-semitic behavior by having a Jewish in-law
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The GOP: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
A collection of netherworld nitwits.
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Clearly Miller is a racist and bigot. A lot of people in this country share similar ideas.
.. These people look at the world and see whites and Western European culture as having achieved more and as superior.
.. It's a very Trumpian way of looking at the world.. 'I have more, I own more, and I am better than you.'
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And the NYT fails basic journalism standards again!
We are told VDARE is labeled "a 'hate website' for its ties to white nationalists and publication of race-based science."
Uh, you cannot refer to racist propaganda as "science" without attribution, or at least quote marks. More properly, you should probably call it "race-based pseudoscience" which is "objective" enough, since that code prevents you from writing the actual truth, which is that it's racist propaganda masquerading as science.
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The "Snake" was a popular song in years past and when I heard the Trump recital of this moronic statement at one of his rallies by him, I literally wanted to puke. It was the most ignorant thing I have ever heard from any president. EVER.
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Why would the Jewish son of Holocaust survivors want to empower white nationalists? The white nationalists would be the kind of people to commit genocide against Jews again.
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We need to investigate FDR for his dastardly refusal to allow the SS St Louis to allow disembarking of the ship full of citizens of many countries who were of Jewish decent. I’ve never seen an explanation for this probable hate crime.
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Do not dignify the filth that consumes Stephen Miller's fevered mind with the word "intellectual". Just because Miller and so many disgusting other racists, look like they were never able to get a date in high school, does not automatically qualify them as having any capacity for intellectual thought.
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I know a lot about world war 2 and Nazi propaganda. When I look at the face of Stephen Millar and another example Roger Stone I see the same expressions, like we could see in that era. For me these guys are the modern Nazis. Nothing more and nothing less. It's time that America will be great again and will undo the men who now have the power.
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I shake my head at this. How can a Jew spout white supremacist / nationalist talking points? He's obviously smart enough to realize that genuine white supremacists don't view him as 'white' so why is he taking these positions? I also wouldn't call him a 'kapo' because they at least acted for self-preservation - what's Miller's excuse? Once this dangerous administration is out of the White House I hope Miller never works again and spends the rest of his life either shunned by his community or making amends for the damage he has caused.
Finally, I've seen some folks on the left speak in conspiratorial terms about Miller being the true power behind Trump - they should realize this is an anti-semitic trope whereby a conniving Jew pulls the strings of an ignorant or hapless gentile and uses them to advance a nefarious agenda. The buck here stops with Trump since he has the power to appoint and remove all of his personnel. It's not like there's a shortage of white supremacists who can craft cruel immigration policy.
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I was waiting for something like this to rear its ugly head...this or something unseemly in his past.
the largest snake in the swamp needs to be swim on back under his rock...where he can hate in private.
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Pitiful Donald found a perfect henchman with a slightly better vocabulary.
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Unfortunately, I cannot take anything seriously in this article as you continue to site the SPLC as some sort of expert on issues. See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-southern-poverty-law-center-has-lost-all-credibility/2018/06/21/22ab7d60-756d-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html. From the New Yorker:
"Southern journalist John Egerton, writing for The Progressive, had painted a damning portrait of Dees, the center’s longtime mastermind, as a “super-salesman and master fundraiser” who viewed civil-rights work mainly as a marketing tool for bilking gullible Northern liberals. “We just run our business like a business,” Dees told Egerton. “Whether you’re selling cakes or causes, it’s all the same.”
If you must go to non-credible sources to back your story, your story itself is non-credible.
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Is he a self-hating Jew? His mother's ancestors—Wolf Lieb Glotzer and his wife, Bessie—immigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire's Antopol, in what is present-day Belarus, arriving in New York on January 7, 1903, on the German ship S.S. Moltke, thus escaping the 1903–06 anti-Jewish pogroms in Belarus and other parts of the Russian Empire. When his great-grandmother arrived in the US in 1906, she spoke only Yiddish, the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. - Wikipedia
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Before non-white people became the primary source of newcomers to North America, thick-accented Eastern Europeans were the main targets of mean-spirited Anglo-Saxon bigotry. As a 1950s immigrant to Canada from what’s now Slovenia, my late father experienced such mistreatment.
Albeit no Stanley Milgram, I believe that if Canada were to hypothetically revert back to a primarily-white populace, if not some VDARE whites-only utopia, Eastern Europeans with a Slavic accent would inevitably again become the main target of the dominant Euro-Canadian ethnicity.
There’s no greater difference amongst humans than race; remove that factor, however, and left are less obvious politics-of-scale differences over which discord can still flourish. For those who doubt this, history is rife with horrific, even genocidal, instances.
I feel that if the world’s population was somehow reduced to just a few city blocks of seemingly similar residents, there’d eventually be some form of notable politics-of-scale inter-neighbourhood hostilities.
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I do object to the description of Miller's admiration for white nationalist web sites as "intellectual ties." There is nothing intellectual about them.
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In addiction to illegal immigration, VDARE opposes legal immigration that changes America’s racial and ethnic profile, but this does not make it a hate site. Many nations have immigration policies that protect their racial and ethnic identify. For example, Mexico’s General Law of Population states, “foreigners may be barred from the country if their presence upsets “the equilibrium of the national demographics.” But this does not mean Mexico hates anyone. It might be fair to characterize VDARE as a white nationalist website, but not a hate website.
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How can anything to do with White Supremacists be considered "Intellectual" in nature? The very thought conjures up some sort of legitimacy when none is warranted.
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Miller is miss-informed if he thinks he'll be considered caucasian when they come for the Jews. And as long as he and Donald Trump are calling the shots, one day as the noose tightens around Trump, they will come for the Jews. And he will be swept up like the human refuse that he is. I am an American Jew and I am totally ashamed to be in any way associated with that thing.
Trump's credibility further erodes with this new trove of information proving that Steven Miller is a white supremacist. And Trump claims he is not a racist. Well then, why does he have a white supremacist as his immigration specialist?
Miller should be forced to resign based on this newfound information.
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Good grief.
What has to happen for Stephen Miller to be fired?
Does he have to burn the White House down?
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Hating someone else, calling them inferior, gives some people a high. They just coat it with whatever nonsense they can invent.
Easier than thinking.
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What's the defense that his been trumpeted for Stephen Miller? That to criticize him is anti-Semitic. From the ironic to the comical.
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Let’s call these people what they are, white supremacists or Neo-Nazis, and dispense with the sanitized term “white nationalists.”
The fact that these folks have gotten ahold of official U.S. immigration policy is beyond sickening. These are literally the societal forces we fought against in World War II and the civil rights movement.
Discredited and odious philosophies like eugenics are like a disease - seemingly eradicated in past generations, but now reinfecting society thanks to hatemongers like Mr. Miller and friends. Regular Americans need to fight back against these ideas for all we’re worth, and we will.
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Interesting that narcissist Trump and self-loathing Miller have become such a love match.
Miller is a real sicko but I can assure you Trump's base loves him and all that he stands for.
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He should be in jail for hate crimes and fomenting disorder.
Shameful beyond belief!
What’s equally chilling is that Stephen Miller, being a Jew himself, is contributing in vile and unconscionable ways to the subjugation of minorities through his association with this terrorist movement.
Simply reprehensible given the role white supremacists played in the Tree of Life and Poway massacres and others the world over in NZ.
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These things are not always easily explained. I had a boyfriend who was black (his family immigrated from Haiti) and he would listen to neo-nazis on shortwave radio. He supported their views. It never made sense to me, but he was also violent with me and bet me a few times. Don't underestimate the deep self-loathing many seemingly competent professionals carry in their bodies and minds. He was also a family respected member of the Republican Party.
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If you hate America, and everything it stands for, you probably like Stephen Miller.
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So when is the media going to confront Ivanka & Jared for their thoughts as observant Jews about that self-hating man Miller? How do they rationalize his beliefs with Jewish principles and ethics? I am willing to bet a fair amount they will refuse to answer!
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Stephen Miller is a disgrace to his Jewish Heritage. The fact that Orthodox Jews continue to back Trump despite Miller's obvious fascist and bigoted views is as troubling as Evangelical Christians backing Trump. The massacre in Pittsburgh can be traced to Trump and Miller's anti-immigrant positions. Any support by Trump of Israel is irrelevant.
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Miller is the real snake.
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What gets lost in too many of these discussions is that the Johnson Reed Act of 1924, which severely curtailed immigration to the US from southern and eastern Europe wasn't just supported by nativists, or racists. In fact, it had much broader support from all parts of the political spectrum save anarchists.
The changes to immigration law in 1924 were supported by organized labor, including such left-wing luminaries as Samuel Gompers (AFL founder) and socialist presidential candidate Norman Thomas. Gompers was actually a Jewish immigrant himself, and supported the law for the same reason that many legal immigrants in the US currently support enforcement of immigration law, irrespective of any shared ethnic background between those legal and illegal immigrants: Competition for jobs, and the effect on wages when employers can easily find someone to do the work for less.
The editorial staff at major papers, including this one we are now reading, also expressed support for the 1924 law, in order to facilitate a prolonged period of assimilation, which many Americans felt was necessary despite the fact that the broader culture at that time did not facilitate bilingualism or encourage families and communities to keep speaking the languages of their ancestors after coming to the US.
One can condemn Stephen Miller for cavorting with white nationalists, but the debate over immigration is a lot more nuanced than this article suggests.
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“It’s not based on ‘We hold these truths to be self evident.’ It’s based on ‘What were the color of the people who wrote those words?’”
And thus, the 45th administration is trying to redefine what it means to be American. It will NEVER fly, but the audacity in trying disturbs to the core: that there should be a group in this country so reviled by the core values of the inalienable right to the pursuit of life liberty and happiness.
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Perhaps Mr Miller has read the ADL reports that recent immigrants are much more Anti-Semitic than native-born Americans? As a Jew I’m not sure why I should be in favor of letting in people to America who hate me. Can anyone explain how allowing Anti-Semites to immigrate here makes me safer?
As to those who say that restricting immigration will invariably lead to death camps, why didn’t the 1924 Johnson-Read Act lead to pogroms (or any Anti-Semitic laws) during from 1924-1965?
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Stephen Miller is a graduate of Duke University. As a graduate of one the nation's most prestigious universities, he is highly educated. I though that highly educated people did not succumb to "white nationalism." How could that be? I thought that "white nationalism" was only for the uneducated. High educated folk, by virtue of their education, are innately liberal and progressive and supportive of Hillary Rodham Clinton. What in the world went wrong?
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As dispiriting as it is to watch Trump supporters trying and failing to use even elementary-level sarcasm, at least when they're doing so, they're not shooting up synagogues, churches or Walmarts.
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Southern Boy,
Educated and uneducated people can be racists. Stephen Miller is a scared little boy. he has an irrational fear of the black, the brown, the other.
CSA?
Just what country do you live in?
If Democrats had the media savvy of Republicans, they'd make Miller the poster boy of the modern Republican Party. How can it be that a white nationalist has been sitting in the White House and working on domestic policy for the President for 3 years and it's never mentioned by leading Democrats?
Perhaps intrepid reporters will ask Trump about Miller and also ask the Democrats about him at their next opportunity.
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Nothing worse than a person who hates because he can and then, when in a position of influence, forces his ideology on others.
And yet millions of people will call him a hero.
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Demonization of a skin color or heritage will inevitably create a backlash response. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Caucasians (aka white people) are part of multicultural diversity, so attacking their history, culture, families, traditions, etc, which goes on endlessly, will create a response that is also extreme. To stop extremism around the issue of race, which actually has no objective, scientific basis as a concept, try not demonizing a particular group defined on the basis of their skin color.
aldebaran,
Stephen Miller is not being criticized for being white, he is being criticized for his racist views and his support of racist white supremacists. Let's keep things straight shall we?
Bless his heart, this is what happens when you go to Duke (snarked the UNC alum.)
But 'unknown'?
Everyone has known this about Stephen Miller almost from the moment he burst onto the nation's political radar.
After all, he was great friends with white nationalist Richard Spencer when both were at Duke.
None of this is a surprise to me.
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Talk about a wanna be Rudolf Hess, the man behind the throne, the Pretend King Trump. The guy who sneaks around under the radar of cameras while he implements his plan of an all white people in America. Well Hess was clearly off his rocker and so is Miller. Climate change will displace millions of people and millions will migrate. In fact diversity within the human DNA may be best. Let's face it, Miller and company are delusional to the point of insanity. Best to keep them away from powerful positions but if they stumble into those positions just keep outing them out. Sooner or later their corporate support and minority group supporters see the wall of opposition especially with the younger generation which will be challenged with the consequences of climate change. This nasty character has been seen before throughout human history. They never win because they are not the norm nor sane. They are the past and they are afraid they are being left behind. They live in fear. We are the majority and we know what is on the horizon, to create a an adaptable society to a changing environment. This environment will demand a more compassionate and empathizing human to survive these changes. Keep outing these ugly characters, so that our young can see their ugliness in the open.
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A good chance to remind readers he's coming after you too. Americans of Asian and Jewish extraction may feel safe. But his belief set makes little distinction between them and his targets so far, blacks and Latinos.
My sons point out they are not Jewish. Very well, but their grandfather was. That's all these guys need to know.
One ray of hope. Zuckerberg may have figured out that his daughters, as people of Chinese-Jewish descent, will also figure in Miller's scheme to purify America. And he's one of the few people in the world who can do something about this.
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Taken to the logical conclusion of his beliefs, Stephen Miller would have to deport his own family from the United States - and then deport himself.
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@Robert Henry Eller- if only!
Deeper INTELLECTUAL ties?
How about just saying "ties?"
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Lovely: we have an immigration policy straight out of the 1920's, when Eastern and Southern European people, desperate to escape war clouds, were denied the opportunity, because, what? they were considered less than white? My god, we are officially a white nationalist country. How easy it is to slide into hate and chaos w/out a gun being fired.
This is the POTUS' agenda not just Miller's. This is what put Trump in the White House. And the notion that he is doing such a great job with the economy is as false an equivalence as one can muster. "Look at what he has done for black people," lowest unemployment numbers ever." Why did Trump say this statistic was fake when under Obama's tenure we experienced close to a 65% drop in unemployment rate, Trump less than a 20% drop. Might have just been a continuation of the good economy he inherited. Any good that Trump has done will be weighed against policies of the like of Miller and his six already convicted and sentenced cohorts.
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The majority who understand the necessity of non-discrimination policies, must be careful here. This president is dramatically and quickly doing exactly what this misguided ilk means by "taking our county back." Along with white privilege judges, these policies will take hold unless this is stopped very soon. We must all try to defuse this racist bomb. Keep the good reporting coming-
Did we really need to see the emails to know that he a racist? I’m not so sure, but I hope it ends with his ouster.
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I can't believe this is a conversation we are having: A member of a presidential admin has ties to and pushed white supremacy sites.
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There have always been outlier groups practicing to protect the U.S. from take over by some world group or another. Camps, para military, military games. But they've come out of the woodwork with Trump. They won't last beyond Trump.
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@Tom: It is like Idaho was given the green light.
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@Tom
White Nationalist terrorism is the number one worry of the FBI. It is spreading and has always been a horrifying voice in America. To say “They won’t last beyond Trump” is what most white liberals tend to say when confronted with this reality. It is real, palpable and every minority, before and after Trump, has to armor themselves against it every single day.
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I think you are wrong. Hate groups have existed here in USA for a long time
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Creating fear of minority peoples isn't new, is dangerous and is a ploy used by small minded people. Mr. Miller's demagoguery is an old saw and he will be a minor footnote in a short time.
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If these forces manage to not only survive but prolferate, finding acceptance and comfort in the highest pinnacles of governmental power and remain at the core of so much social chaos and disturbance, one needs to soberly ask: just how vulnerable is the free world to their persistent devices and how much progress have they covertly (or overtly) made during the recent administration?
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Duke needs to shut down and start over. It’s a disaster of a university.
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@Brian It's all of Dixie, not just North Carolina.
I believe that the United States should have a peaceful divorce and split into two countries. No shots need to be fired.
The marriage cannot be saved. Don't even want to try.
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@DickeyFuller I would venture to say that it not only in Dixie. It is all over the U.S.; just more open in some places than in others.
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Your comment is unfair to Duke. You ignore the thousands of graduates who work for progressive causes and who believe in civil rights and diversity, as well as Duke’s positive record as a leading educational institution. Indeed, thousands of Duke alums vilified Miller in an open letter to him. See https://indyweek.com/news/archives/open-letter-2-943-fellow-duke-alumni-ask-trump-senior-adviser-stephen-miller-became-horrible-person/
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Can't wait to see what the future holds for Mr. Miller once he gets out of the protected confines of the Executive branch. I expect he will need security protection for the rest of his life.
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@Kailas
From who? The hate groups that send death threats are pretty much on the right wing side. If he is hurt it will because they stabbed him in the back.
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I see a lot of comments here expressing surprise that a Jew like Miller would have these views and I think that misses the point entirely.
Miller is not driven by any true ideology. All the available evidence, stories, and anecdotes suggest Miller is driven by a fundamental anger, misanthropy, and resentment. His ideology is merely a manifestation of this anger, allowing him to hurt others and be vindictive under the cover of policy. These are the kinds of people who are very dangerous and capable of terrible things. It is folly to try to understand the contradictions in their identity or the details of their policy because they will always have one goal: to get even and to inflict pain. There is no middle ground or reasoning with someone of this nature.
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@BReed
One must remember that even Jews collaborated with the Nazis, if only for self preservation and not for advancement like Miller.
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@BReed
At some point White Supremacists will turn on Miller because he is not one of their own….pure tribalism based upon an accident of history: birth.
Steven Miller thinks that he can change who he is (by birth) by simply adopting a philosophy (deeper intellectual ties?). You raise the spectre of anger. Whatever the cause of Miller's actions, the White Supremacy community will not accept him because of his heritage any more than the White Supremacy community will accept Catholics, or African Americans or ‘foreigners”. He will be used and then discarded.
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@BReed : I agree with your assessment, and go even further in stating my grave concern that Mr. Miller's anger, misanthrophy and resentment are of such severity that they are, in my view, diagnosable as deep seated mental disturbances requiring clinical intervention if he ever wants to get out of them. He is a sad and very dangerous human being.
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Miller thinks that assimilating with white nationalists will save him from their attacks. It will not...as it it did not the Jews Germany of the 1930's who thought they were assimilated in that culture.
It will come around...bet on it.
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Mr. Miller is a prime example when hate takes over a heart. Lost in a world of bigotry.
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Perhaps hate rewarded shrinks a heart.
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@Matt586 Is it hate, or fear, or both? Get out the vote for November 2020!
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I would rather see "hate groups" or "white supremacist groups" used instead of "white nationalist". Please, let us call these groups what they are, not what they want to be called.
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@Kenny B: Sir,to request rational thought as regards his beliefs,futile.
Ah yes, Ms McHugh released the emails to the notably nonpartisan Southern Poverty Law Center to " make amends ". No partisan intent whatsoever. Her job termination had nothing to do with her action. I mean what fair minded person would think otherwise? After all, it's the SPLC for goodness sake.
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@BD
Well the messenger is lying dead on the carpet. Yet still, pretty damning evidence of racism against Mr. Miller.
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@BD
Clumsy, inept sarcasm aside, it sounds like you have a big problem with any group that opposes racist and anti-Semitic hate groups. Why is that?
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It's a shame that Miller's support for explicitly anti-Italian policies of the 20th century is not better known by the large numbers of Trump-supporting Italian-Americans.
I wonder what they'd say if they knew that the president's chief immigration policymaker endorsed a man who saw their great-grandparents as genetically inferior?
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@OD I doubt they would care, I have spoken to some Latino trump supporters, his hatred and miller's hatred of Latinos is intense and very public, they don't care, they think there are somehow immune if they espouse the same beliefs, it really is a cult.
Regarding Stephen Miller, I would imagine none of this is surprising to people of color.
They know that white ethnics have always negotiated with other whites with respect to their status as whites.
So yes they might claim they aren't "white," because of their ancestors' earlier histories of discrimination and their non-WASP identity, but when it comes to people of color, they know exactly who they are.
They are white, first, second, and third.
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What a sad young man. Estranged from his heritage, his family and his soul.
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These scosse may have a point that we need to hear. Global warming has already contributed to mass emigration from the literally boiling Middle East and Central America. There have to be limits. Start with a 12 digit national ID card for everyone here. Cross reference it with IRS, Social Security, Voter ID. No card, no work, no vote, no expensive medical care. Either that or the sciocchi win elections.
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AOC is right. Miller needs to go!
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".... that the increase in Spanish speakers is a “ferocious attack on the living standards of the American working class.”
For sure an influx of people willing to work hard for a lot less money is an attack on the working class- prices/wages go down when supply and competition increases.
However, it pales in comparison to the other attacks on the working class that have been happening for the last 50 years. As one of the democratic candidates said, the "financialization" of the economy has taken its toll on the middle class. Wall St. used to work for the country, now the country works for Wall St. I guess Mr. Miller serves as a useful distraction while the reall pillaging happens?
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@Hugh G
Great point. It was American businesses ,essentially, who welcomed new arrivals with open arms and closed wallets. Their anti-union,anti labor law stances were more than happy to exploit cheaper labor. It is not a spurious correlation to make that over the last fifty years, the declining or "flat-lining" wages are the direct result of laws written for,and by businesses.
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Thank you NYT for posting this article. We are truly living through a frightening time. It saddens me and breaks my heart that the most sinister
& least empathetic person in the administration is in charge of our country’s & world’s most vulnerable people.
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@Maria Garcia Your words say it all:
"We are truly living through a frightening time."
When I realized that Trump had been elected, I had the same feeling of sadness and loss that experienced only on the deaths of my parents, and on September 11, 2001.
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It would take a while to list all of the brilliance that came out of eastern Europe over the years from composers, artists, and authors. Then there are all the operas from Italian composers. How many people are aware that our alphabet and algebra came from the Middle East? Frankly, as much as I love my Danish friends and visiting Scandinavian countries, the greatest contributions to civilization did not all originate in Norway and its neighbors as some would have us believe. They do make great sweaters and I love Danish pastry and Scandinavian medical care, Volvo cars and
SAS airline. But let's get real about who created what and continues to do so. Brilliant people from all over the world! Think about food. Could you be happy if you couldn't get Chinese or Italian food? Sushi? Thai? Even Indian?
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Susan, you are so right. Even Häagen-Dazs Danish ice cream had to be invented by Polish-Jewish immigrants to the US, because Denmark failed to invent it :-)
It's frightening to note that someone like Miller, sympathetic to the types of Un-American viewpoints our family ancestors fought against in WWII, occupies such a prominent position in this administration — even more chilling, that he is there at the behest of our president, and as such, is a direct reflection of alarming and unacceptable ideas that Donald Trump supports. A tragedy for our country.
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What I find particularly appalling is that American Renaissance is registered as an "educational" non-profit organization, which means that donations to that group are tax-deductible. Wow. Just ... wow.
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Stephen Miller's inclinations have never been secret. Anyone who cared to pay attention knew about him a long time ago. The question isn't how he got where he is, but why we let him, collectively.
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Miller needs to resign now. Trump won't make him do it, but aren't there still a few folks who are both influential and decent in the GOP?
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Short answer, no. None.
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To me, Miller is one of those people that just wants to "see the world burn."
He wants to be confrontational. He wants to create disparity where none existed before. He wants to inflame "underdog" passions. I believe that if America shared his current views on race and immigration, he would flip his belief system just to continue creating conflict. He's one of those guys that loves something until it becomes popular and then changes his tune.
I also believe there is a hefty dose of self-loathing in him. There's something that he despises about himself and channels that into his outer being as well.
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@Bret Except it's not just that Miller wants to 'see the world burn.' He also has no problem inflicting harm on 'others' through policy.
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@Bret
To be fair, if I were him, I'd hate myself too.
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@Bret
If he despises himself it's no surprise.
There's plenty to despise about the guy.
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The Republican administrations ties to the white nationalism goes back decades. I remember when Ronald Reagan was used by Republican operatives to send a giant dog whistle when he opened his 1980 presidential run in Philadelphia, MIssissippi, very close to the spot where 3 civil rights workers were killed in the early 60s.
The topic of his speech? State's rights. Republicans have been pushing this agenda for a long time, it is only recently that they have found a leader who shares their views and is willing to espouse them openly.
Anyone associated with the GOP after Trump's election can no longer deny the racism that is the fundamental tenet of the party. This isn't about Miller, or Trump, or any one individual, this is about the entire party.
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Any bets that Stephen Miller goes the way of Steve Bannon and out the door. Miller is not quite ready for prime time as we head into the re-election campaign. Therefore expendable.
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Can’t understand the Miller/Spencer relationship. Does Spencer (Jews will not replace us) architect of the Charlottesville demonstrations simply overlook Miller’s Jewish faith? Does Miller count as a Jew? If Miller considers himself a Jew, how can he explain his relationship to Spencer?
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@Mark
I think white supremacists will overlook a Jewish person's ethnicity provided that Jewish person is advancing the goals of white supremacy (either deliberately like Miller or otherwise). I've seen appeals on Twitter by 'intellectual' white supremacists for Jews to help them create a white ethno-state (at which point the Jews will be discarded as non-white).
In a nation whose history is built on a foundation of racial animus, we really need to incorporate classes on the internalized oppression of racial self-loathing into standard curricula. As a black woman educator, I know this dynamic is not a fluke. The effects of self-hatred are real, and they have a potent power to destroy not only the psyche of the person feeling them, but also the surrounding community with whom that individual interacts. Add power to the equation and the dynamics become explosive, just what we've seen in attitudes and policies toward immigrants. I don't know how else to make sense of a Jewish man aligning with white supremacists, the very same group that hunted his ancestors across the globe in order to sever them from the body of humanity. I feel sorrow for, and solidarity with, Miller's Jewish ancestors, that their sacrifice and suffering afforded him the privilege to live free and carry on like this. They did not spill their blood so that he can cozy up to their tormentors. One can only imagine what the white supremacists say about Miller behind his back...
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None of this surprises me in the least and I almost didn't read the article because of this. But I was happy to read about the source of the emails. I appreciate Ms. McHugh's attempt to make amends.
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Stephen Miller displays an acute sense of self-hatred. It’s almost as if he revels in it.
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All of my grandparent's were Italian immigrants. I can not, for the life of me, wrap my mind around the idea that many people I know, whose parents and grandparents were immigrants can still be supporting DJT.
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Miller is a direct reflection of the administration on the whole--especially that of Trump.
But to a larger degree, Trump and his administration, and most of the GOP, are a direct reflection of their voter base--formerly known as the DIxiecrats and pulled virtually en masse into the republican party under Nixon.
It is absolutely mind-ripping to hear from a Trump voter, "The democrats are the party of racism", while appearing oblivious to the actions of those like Miller and Trump himself.
If ever anyone should be delivered to Spandau Prison in this day and age, Trump and Miller are at the top of the list.
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I would think he’s the most closely aligned staffer (ideologically) with the President.
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Stephen Miller clearly & sadly lives in a parallel universe. Ignoring---no, rejecting---his very ethnicity is symptomatic of a much deeper problem. This compounds his rejection of his fellow human beings and association with hate groups.
Under proper vetting, it is unlikely that such a sick case as Miller would achieve and sustain a position of responsibility.
Miller deserves our sympathy, but nothing more. He must also face the consequences when his words & actions transgress legal and moral boundaries.
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"suggesting deeper intellectual ties to the world of white nationalism than previously known."
Intellectual?
I'm not sure that is how I would phrase it.
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Wouldn't it be nice if we could judge immigrants by their morality, not the color of their skin.
If someone of Miller's character tried to get into this country, he would have been refused entrance.
Someday we will get it. But with abhorrent people like Trump and his ilk, it won't be too soon.
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Trump surrounds himself with people filled with hate, vitriol and funny ideas about the world because it feeds and nourishes his own narrative.
Stephen Miller, while likely the most vile of the lot, is hardly the only one in the group filled with hatred. Pompeo, Bannon, Mulvaney, Kobach, Gorka, Kelly, Flynn, Nielsen, Nikki Haley, Raj Shah etc. have all made publicly recorded comments of hate against the minorities. The entire Trump team is full of ideologues - varying from the mild to the extremely dangerous.
However, the worst one is the one we don't pay attention to : Don McGahn. His agenda to was to help pack the Supreme court and Federal courts with right wing ideologues and by the look of it, he seems to have succeeded.
The GOP is filled with cynics who care more about themselves and their own enrichment than anything else. That is why it is so easy for the banking, tobacco, gun and religious lobbies to exert undue influence over them.
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There is n o place in government service for a person of Mr. Miller's views.
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I am not of Jewish heritage. I visited the Holocaust museum. As I entered, I was overcome.
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If we get rid of Trump we will get rid of Miller. Nothing is more important than ridding our government of Donald Trump.
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Keep the focus on TRUMP's judgement.
Trump picked Miller. He also picked Flynn, Michael Cohen, Manafort, Rick Gates and Roger Stone, all convicted felons.
And let's not forget Giuliani and his 2 indicted pals.
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Any connections to overt racism or hate groups must be disqualifying for any government position.
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Our tax dollars pay his salary. If this bothers you, then call your representatives in Washington. And tell everyone you know to do the same.
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Miller must be filled with self-hate to espouse these senseless and horrific policies when his own family made their way to the US from Eastern Europe, fleeing hate and wishing for more freedom and greater economic opportunity.
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Honestly. It's impossible to fathom that anyone with the likes of Miller would perceive himself to be superior in any way from
ANYTHING!!!
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Despite the shades of our skins, from light tan to dark brown - - we represent our ancient ancestors who had to migrate out of Africa, (possibly due to climate changes (?) ) .
We needed , due to our south of the equator latitude and longitude and the heat of the son, we needed dark brown skin, and wide nostrils and wide lips to capture oxygen.
As we went above the equator, over time, out skin color got to be a much lighter shade, a very very light; and our nostrils and lips narrower.
Those are the facts.
We need to get over the white black divisiveness.
And, more basically, no mater where on the globe we live, we must get over divisiveness and hatred and destructiveness due to the effects of divisiveness due to cultural rules, norms and customs.
Love one another whether or not we love ourselves sufficiently enough.
Do not get anxious about strangers.
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I’m baffled. Stephen Miller doesn’t look anything close to being “Norwegian.” Miller needs to self deport himself. It’s an immoral, slippery slope that Miller, Trump, GOP, alt right are standing on, or more appropriately, slithering on.
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The GOP should be ashamed of itself. Miller isn't ashamed nor is Trump. That's who they are. Where are the noble men / women of the Republican Party? Silenced into submission, it would seem.
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It appears that Mr. Miller has emptied his heart of all that is good and is filling it with all that evil.
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I would take issue with the statement that Miller "has deeper intellectual ties to the world of white nationalism".
There is nothing intellectual about racism and white nationalism; they have no basis in science. It is purely prejudice, which is almost by definition non-intellectual.
To speak of "intellectual ties" is a complement to these bigots that the do not deserve.
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When asked why a person belonging to a racial minority might vote for a racist president, the answer often is trump's economic policies. They've been tragically conned into believing that someone else will suffer from discrimination and that they might even get a little pocket coin out of it.
Which of course, ironically manifests the veracity of trump's snake parable.
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If folks think ridding the White House of Stephen Miller will dilute the racism of the current administration they are deceiving themselves. Stephen Miller is the symptom not the cause; this White House feeds on anti-immigrant policies and denigrating immigrants to feed its base.
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All of these Italians and Eastern Europeans that Coolidge did not care for had children who fought for the US in WWII. Like my Gold Star grandmothers sons. Shame on Miller and the like. Notice he didn't enlist. Other priorities, like Dick Cheney.
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Stephen Miller is a classic case of self-loathing and alienation from, or denial of, his roots. One need only think about the article his uncle wrote about Miller’s family to see how far down the rabbit hole of racism he has fallen.
The paradox of a person of Jewish family history subscribing to racist thought speaks about a very disturbed individual. That he has the power through his equally racist, psychologically damaged, president to inflict damage is an outrage.
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But, but, but...The American people don't care. Remember?
They don't listen to, believe, are care about his extortion and attacks on our elections. They don't care about campaign finance violations, or the breaking of emoluments law.
The American people don't care about the grifters or his advisers ties to White supremecy. Just look at his Twitter over the years.
So what is this saying about the American people? Really?
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Miller strikes me as a person who is mad at the world and takes it out by hurting others. He is an unpopular, unhappy, angry, lost soul. He could try being kind, but he won't.
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US anti-immigration is dissuading everyone from entering the US, whether for short or long-term, including doctors, researchers and scientists.
At least one summa cum laude Canadian Ivy graduate of my acquaintance turned down several US job offers to return to Canada after graduation. It's not my kind of place, she said, I'm tired of the violence, patriotism and politics. More than half the foreign students in her class stated similar plans to leave the US after graduation.
You'll lose a whole generation of inventors and scientists.
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"suggesting deeper intellectual ties to the world of white nationalism than previously known."
Intellectual ties? You're kidding me, right? This is pure racism, and isn't a respectable or legitimate school of thought. It is ANTI-intellectual, if it has anything to do with intellect at all.
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DJT again reveals and projects DJT's inner self by his recitation of the "Snake". Could there be a more fitting poem DJT could recite to the Republican caucus as it bears witness to and stands stupified by the abuses DJT inflicts on the American Experiment?
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Miller must be one of those "very fine people on both sides" that Trump was referring to...not wanting to offend his ardent (read Racist!) voter base.
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Let's not forget what the great honorable General John F. Kelly of "The Grownups in the White House" anti reality show once said;
"White House chief of staff John Kelly reportedly told other members of the Trump administration that if it were up to him the number of refugees admitted into the U.S. would be between zero and one." source The Hill
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@greg
The whole administration is filled with misfits, who hate because they look inthe mirror and hate themselves. Trump and his simple minded statements hwo that he is a third grader at heart. John Kelly lied about the minority congresswoman and they lied about the telephone conversation with the lady who lost her husband in Africa.
Misfits of society lie because they can not academically challenge anyone because they know nothing but hate.
Mr. Miller should of been born in the 1920's he would fit right in with the SS because he has a great capacity for hate
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Is anyone really surprised to learn this?
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@Derek Martin No. He showed his true colors when running for student council by complaining that the janitors should pick up his own trash for him.
But it is still shocking. Not surprising, but shocking.
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I’m confused. Wasn’t it widely know that he was the top white nationalist in the administration? Which, by the way, is saying a lot.
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The difference between Stephen Miller and Max Boot is taking one position that is out of step with Donald Trump. The conservative stalwart foreign policy wonk Max Boot found out the virulence of anti-Semitism in Trump's base when he had the temerity to criticize Trump's nomination of Rex Tillerson. The anti-Semitism spewed against him was so intense and mainstream conservative defense of him so absent, he has been wondering the wilderness of liberal media ever since. He was shocked into recognizing the disposable place of Jews in conservative movements. Other ethnic and religious minorities should take note. Sooner or later, Stephen Miller will found out that being a Jew will trump (pun intended) whatever loyalty or fidelity he showed Trump and his base. Any slight or deviation from his toxic policies and ideologies that betray the history of his own family that is but a generation away from pogroms of Europe will rain antisemitic venom on Miller and cast him out. His is one of the most pathetic figures in American racial and ethnic drama--a self-hating minority serving the agenda of those who hate him.
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@UC Graduate
And I hope other minority communities recognize this as well. The Republicans have at least some support from African Americans, Latinos, Asians and others. Think Candance Owens or Michelle Malkin (an anti-immigrant bigot who herself is the daughter of immigrants).
I'm shocked? I couldn't be more certain about his bigotry and nationalistic hate mongering, if he now gooses-stepped around in a brown shirt and hobnail boots.
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When will all the rational and conscientious conservatives who have called Miller a wunderkid disavow this racist?
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Please, please consider carefully before linking directly to a white supremacist website. Being linked directly from the NYT brings significant traffic and (apparent) legitimacy. To avoid platforming and legitimizing white supremacists, please use a service which or piece of code which prevents the resulting traffic from boosting the offending website's search engine ranking. I like donotlink.it but you can build the code into the link itself, I believe. Just do something!
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That’s why he found a home in Trumpland.
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Seriously, is it really a surprise or news to anyone that Stephen Miller is a white supremacist? Other than the fact that Mr. Miller himself is a Jew, one of the many racial targets of the White Supremacists, Mr. Miller has done nothing other than express hatred toward immigrants, especially non white immigrants.
Also, it is letting Mr. Miller off the hook to call Mr. Miller merely a bigot. Mr. Miller is a white supremacist, and Mr. Miller in my opinion has demonstrated through words and deeds that he would at least consider supporting eugenics and ethnic cleansing, and yes, even genocide.
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The baited circus of Donald Trump and his cacophony of 1-act bit advisors in his administration is yet another historical cancer that has erupted on the surface of our society. If the majority of Americans are unable to detect the truth behind this malignant disease that inhabits our Executive Branch of government then we are pitifully doomed.
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Miller would be tossed out of the most Confederacy identifying fraternity on the campus of Alabama University for being an embarrassment and a reason they might get thrown off campus.
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Indeed, people with bigoted minds must look elsewhere, Mr. Taylor.
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So many people here saying this is what we already knew. Yes, "we" knew this but like it or not for many who hold Republican loyalty it is significant to have evidence that they are unable to refute.
Yes locking kids in cages away from their parents should be more than we ever needed to know. But I applaud the former Breitbart editor for making good on her renunciation by providing data.
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I'm sadly reminded of Any Rand's "Fountainhead" and all the fools who drew the wrong conclusions from it. The sophomoric mind is easily caught in the empowering romance story of two individuals who overcome adversity and conquer the world in self-empowering love. However, these readers failed to take a lessen from Ellsworth Toohey.
"The basic trouble with the modern world … is the intellectual fallacy that freedom and compulsion are opposites. To solve the gigantic problems crushing the world today, we must clarify our mental confusion. We must acquire a philosophical perspective. In essence, freedom and compulsion are one. Let me give you a simple illustration. Traffic lights restrain your freedom to cross a street whenever you wish. But this restraint gives you the freedom from being run over by a truck. If you were assigned to a job and prohibited from leaving it, it would restrain the freedom of your career. But it would give you freedom from the fear of unemployment. Whenever a new compulsion is forced upon us, we automatically gain a new freedom. The two are inseparable. Only by accepting total compulsion can we achieve total freedom."
Total socialism is the extreme example of liberty in general. Your rights end where mine begin. Toohey is demonized in the story but Howard Roark is ultimately the one proven wrong even in victory.
Miller is someone who never learned to read critically.
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No, he’ll run for President and win via the electoral college.
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He’s still there. Every Senator that doesn’t speak out against him is for him.
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If the current administration had a scintilla of integrity they would remove him from his job. Period. Words don't do justice for what is occurring in the Trump Administration. It is a nightmare of epic proportions.
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@Mom The problem is the current administration has no integrity which is why Miller is in the administration in the 1st place. he has absolutely no qualifications other than apparently being an overt racist for his current position. He's Trump's kind of guy.
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@Mom Agree, but now you have made them work because they have to look up the word scintilla.
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@Mom agree wholeheartedly. Miller is one of the Presidents favorites however. He even allows him out on national tv once in a while just to remind everyone how unhinged he and his over-achieving acolyte are.
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Then known?
Apparently people like to keep their heads in the sand.
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A white supremacist in charge of the country’s immigration policy. Surrealism is DOA.
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One of Trump’s favorite minions and the man who shapes Trump policy. We have a racist running the nation. A vile racist. Let’s take our country back from these malevolent thugs who pretend to be politicians by day. I ask voters, where is the end point for you where enough is enough? Relegate professional hate mongers like Miller to the only place he belongs. The moldy dustbin of history.
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If Mr. Miller thinks his racism will save him, a Jew, from the neo National Socialists, he is sadly delusional.
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@Jack be Quick
Yeah, you would have thought that he would have figured that out.
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Other than Trump, Miller is the most significant racist in this crooked administration, and yet another treason to make sure that 2020 is as anti-Trump as is humanly possible.
ALL MINORITY GROUPS are targets for Trumpian/Repuiblican xenophobia, as are Democrats and anyone who disagrees wit the authoritarian actions of MafiaDon. I would call them "tactics" but that would be attributing some level of intelligence to a blithering idiot.
Were Hitler in power (and we're not far from that), Miller would have been the Eichman of the group. We know what happened there - at least those of us who are not mentally deranged enough to deny the Holocaust or agree with Hitler.
Narcissistic sociopathy, extreme "nationalism" and a pliable, apathetic populous led to the rise of Nazi Germany and WWII. These same signs exist today with Trump and his Republican cult. If the shoe fits, wear it as Trump's "good men" would say. We also know how that ended!
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This should not come as a surprise to anyone. The only saving grace is his lack of competence in passing legislation. He tends to have to rewrite his stuff three times before it passes muster with the courts. He is a white nationalist bordering on stupidity.
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While Miller maybe deluded about white nationalists, is not a bit like going into the lion’s den as a Jew? Or is he trying to say that he is more white than Jew?
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“A shanda for the goyim ” is an old Yiddish expression denoting Jewish embarrassment over a fellow Jew for committing scandalous acts that open the Jewish people up to shame and discredit by non-Jews.
Between Stephen Miller, Jared and Ivanka and others, Jews are frequently being reminded these days that President Trump, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos are not the only people whose behavior justifies harsh criticism and suitable terms of imprisonment.
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Just look at the picture of him flashing the white power sign. We've known this bigot's true colors for a long time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/videonational/trump-adviser-stephen-miller-says-the-presidents-power-will-not-be-questioned/2017/02/13/0f772184-f14f-11e6-9fb1-2d8f3fc9c0ed_video.html
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So, does this mean we have a neo-Nazi residing in Trump’s White House and serving as his right hand man?
Is this what “Make America great again” means?
VOTE IN 2020!
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Stephen Miller would do himself some good to take a short walk to the US Holocaust Museum. There he can educate himself about bigotry, hate and racism - and perhaps connect with the photos of the slaughtered innocents with whom he is connected by dint of religion and ethnicity.
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@Kenny B And at the same time visit the Africa American museum, not too far off, and spend some time in the basement two floors.
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@Kenny B And take Kushner of the field trip with him
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@Kenny B
The trouble is that Miller has already educated himself about bigotry, hate, and racism, and made his choice.
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It is remarkable that Mr. Miller, Jewish by birth, has aligned himself with people and organizations that subscribe to white nationalism. As he should know, once these people and organizations have taken care of black and brown people, they turn their attention to Jews.
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@Bob They will never succeed in 'taking care of' black and brown people, though they will make life more difficult and dangerous for us. That won't stop them from attacking Jews as well. They already have done so.
Mr. Miller must be deeply neurotic to believe that he will be favored by such people. Even though his attitudes are probably the product of mental defect, one almost hopes he gets his comeuppance.
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@Bob
Yeah, you would think he would have figured that out.
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@Bob
Same situation with LGBT that support Trump.
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(Sarcastically) I'm sure the President will now remove Miller from his staff. After all, the President has publicly claimed that he is the least racist person in the world. Surely, he'll now act to ensure his staff reflects that lack of racism.
(Seriously) Another example of a Trump hiring/appointment performed with essentially NONE of the vetting that should be applied. These repeated outrageous selections are themselves an illustration of blatant incompetence or dereliction of duty. It certainly doesn't reflect the "due care" a president is expected to apply.
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@StatBoy i actually think he was chosen BECAUSE of his views!
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@StatBoy I'm pretty sure he was vetted pretty completely, and his white supremacist leanings were not a surprise. After all, Miller had worked for Jeff Sessions back in 2009, so Sessions (who was still influential in the Trump organization at that time) would have been well aware of his racist inclinations. Even without that connection, you don't miss this sort of thing by accident, even when you're as inept as the Trump organization.
It'd be very hard to believe that the white nationalist Miller was brought in for any reason other than to represent the white nationalist perspective within the Trump administration.
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@StatBoy You seem to assume that Miller is part of this administration despite, instead of because, of his racism. The cruelty and racism (often linked together) of this administration are features, not bugs.
White nationalism is a scourge on our country. It's a relic of slavery when we built our country on the flawed premise that blacks were less than human. It's actually ironic considering Jews have also been considered less than human and Miller is a Jew. And who is "white" when genetic tests show many whites are partly black and vice-versa? America is not about skin color, ethnicity, or religion; America is about values like all men are created equal, tolerance for differences, and respect for the rule of law. As President Ronald Reagan said in his last speech as President immigrants are our strength as they renew our country over and over again. We have nothing to be afraid of when "whites" are a minority because we are all American in values. The people who are unAmerican are white nationalists like Miller.
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Recently one of your readers cited this quotations from Joseph Heller and it is worth repeating.
"“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
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@SridharC
Which is exactly what we are dealing with. And also why right wing media is so dangerous. They hide behind the construction while also dismantling it.
Liberty really only works when the community respects it. It is quite vulnerable to attack by those who have no conscious or moral fiber.
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Whenever I look at or hear Stephen Miller speak it's as though he's channeling Germany in the 1930s or Southern patriarchs in the 1850s. This man shouldn't be in government, least of all in charge of immigration. One more of "I know the best people" from Trump, the most incompetent President ever.
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@Michael Gilbert
Trump as well.
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This article is heavy on insinuation and light on specifics.
The closest one gets to discovering Mr. Miller's actual views is the opinion of Jerry Kammer of the immigration studies center, "“I think Stephen Miller has taken legitimate concerns about immigration to illegitimate extremes when he ties it to ethnicity and nationality,” he said."
This is tied to Calvin Coolidge's immigration policies that restricted immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe because the subject of "ethnicity" seems to be in both.
This article sites the Coolidge legacy as a parallel, and identifies objections to the Miller policies. The problem is that this article makes tenuous links to Mr. Miller's interest in Coolidge's bad judgement ideas rather than solid factual evidence.
Mr. Miller does endorse restricting immigration based on country of origin, and does want to reduce immigration entirely (per this article), and the actual results of these (purported) views is very bad. He advises President Trump!
I am reminded of the 1939 Jewish refugees seeking asylum in North America from the NAZIs:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ss-st-louis-jewish-refugees-turned-away-holocaust
I see a parallel to the refugees from: Syrian horrors, Central American drug and totalitarian regimes, and the US policy to restrict immigration of refugees seeking asylum.
Please get hard facts instead of innuendo, because the results of similar policies are yielding similar results.
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@Mike W The man is reading and citing virulent racist garbage from virulent racists, and citing it as recommendations for action. How much more do you need?
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@Mike W
This article includes facts and quoted material from Miller himself. Period.
I assume "intellectual" was used tongue- in- cheek
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Don't understand why we are supposed to be surprised by this. He's in his position not despite of his views, but BECAUSE of his views on race and white nationalism.
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What a bunch of insignificant opportunists with ideas of grandeur! Time will roll over them and confine their actions as part of a darker period in our collective history.
The sad part is that their actions destroyed families and children, and ironically, is bringing economic hardship to the country.
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Miller has always been a proponent of white nationalism---witness his time at Duke. This man does not belong in the halls of power. He is dangerous.
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Just how much longer do we have to suffer such people in our government???
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@EA approx 13 months. Get out the vote!
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@Jo 431 days.
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Trump's use of the doggerel parable of a venomous reptile is far more applicable to his presidency. The irony is lost on this man--what kind of soul is that?
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This is not news. Stephen Miller and everyone else surrounding this abusive president is racist to the core. Hopefully them and their 19th century views of the world will be out of power soon. Shame on our country for even letting them be close to the levers of power. It certainly shows an alarming number of people in this country are at least complicit to racism.
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American Renaissance abides by Coolidge’s support for a law that excludes southern and eastern european immigrants which of course, meant no Jews and no Italians. Thus, Stephen Miller, who is Jewish, would not have been born in this country since his family would not have been allowed to immigrate to the USA.
As such, we can conclude that Miller’s ideology is self destructive.
But extremists like him are blind with zero introspection and zero insight
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Thank you, thank you, New York Times, for your constant, exhaustive work on behalf of the truth. History will show you as one of the few lights in this Dark Age.
The Times continues to ferret out the hidden horrors of the Trump Administration, but ACTION is up to us. I wish I could feel confident in our ability to eradicate this white-supremacy (and other) corruption and brutality at the center of the White House.
Sadly, even our voting in 2020 is compromised by electoral machine tampering and deceitful social media posts by malignant Russian and other actors.
We ALL need to keep learning, keep vigilant, and to fight together.
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Can someone ask Mr. Miller if he agrees with some of his sources that Italians and Eastern Europeans, and their descendants who live in the U.S., are genetically inferior?
The twentieth century KKK movement was as anti-Catholic as it was anti-Semitic and anti-Negro (although the members used another word for Negro). As a country, have we forgotten that? Or did many of us never know that?
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Stephen Miller's behavior is a disgrace and dishonors both the memory of the Holocaust (of which his grandparents were victims) and of the immigration restrictions that prevented so many from escaping Nazi atrocities.
Those restrictions were not only the immigration restrictions passed by a Republican Congress in the 20s, but also the twisted implementation of even allowed quotas by Breckenridge Long, who was in the State Dept. of the Roosevelt administration.
Specifically, Long prevented Jews from immigrating into the U.S., even though they were within the quotas allowed for Germany and other countries. In an approach clearly borrowed by Trump and his trolls (Miller among them), Long declared that there might be spies and saboteurs among Jewish immigrants from Nazi Germany, so Jews were prevented from fleeing Nazi Germany.
These types of mantras, recited repeatedly by bigots like Miller, are in and of themselves reprehensible. The fact that Trump has adopted them is a disgrace, both to this country and to the GOP.
Miller, himself, is a perfect example of evil and inhumanity. The fact that he has a position in the Trump administration is an indelible stain on Trump and the Republican party.
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No surprises at here ... if it looks like a snake and acts like a snake, it’s a snake. The surprise would be if he lost his job as a result of these “revelations”, but that won’t happen since the criteria for this role in the Trump regime is to be a fascist.
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All I can say is Leo Frank in Marietta, GA!
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No surprise to anyone who's been following Stephen Miller's work, but well done to both Rogers and DeParle and to the SPLC for putting a bow on this one. After today, it is no longer possible for anyone to deny that this administration's immigration policies are explicitly and intentionally designed to serve white-nationalist ends.
And just in case anyone's missed it and needs it spelled out: white nationalists are terrorists, straight up.
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I was going to write a long and emotionally charged response, but decided to write a check to ANTIFA instead.
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Why has the term “White Nationalism” become acceptable? Nationalism is too respectable a term for what is simply racism and hate.
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The term white nationalism is to racism as enhanced interrogation is to torture. Pernicious newspeak that bleakly normalizes the unacceptable.
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@Phlogiston
Well put and dead on.
Miller is one of Trump's minders.
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Evil walks among us.
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There is no way Miller should still be working at the White House. His racism is well-documented.
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@Jasmine Armstrong It was well documented in 2016. He was not hired by accident.
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@Jasmine Armstrong
And his practices will poison all the agencies surrounding immigration. Another reason to disband ICE etc. What types of nationalists are they filling the ranks with under this leadership? If it was bad before it will be out right deadly if it continues.
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@Jasmine Armstrong
Except the republicans voted for racism.
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Miller is the personification of evil, racism, white supremacy - and he whispers in the ear of the maniac to set presidential "policy" -or at least 'policy of the hour."
The man should be taken away and locked up. The world wiil be a better place when he is gone.
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@PJASWFLA Your final sentence is disturbing. The world being a better place when he is gone is the very stuff of fascism and more than a few other isms.
It is both infuriating and inevitable that Stephen Miller and his disgusting white supremacist ilk are almost invariably privileged.
Perhaps they are unconsciously aware that without their privilege they would be nothing. Nothing. And that there are millions of immigrants with more talent, more heart and more potential.
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Of the many reasons to condemn (and boot) this Presidency, is the fact that an exposed, un-hooded white supremacist continues to be employed in the Executive Office, and worse, is directing immigration policy. Disgraceful.
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"Intellectual ties to . . . white nationalism." That's an oxymoron, right?
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We know now (more than ever) what is behind the curtain. It is now up to us and rise up against agents of abysmal evil; VOTE them out in 2020. Enough of the psychopath's terrorizing synagogues and black churches. Those that succumb to the bottom lure of pure evil will lose their souls in the process. This new GOP format (making lies with the truth, denying scientific data (E.g. climate data), inflexible, apathetic, devoid of empathy, defiant and filled with vitriol will have to answer to future generations for being agents of Satan.
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Some people are asking here how a Jewish man could be a white supremacist. Who in good conscience believes there were no Jewish men under the white sheets of the KKK?
An analogy would be, how could any black person support a president who supports white supremacists like Stephen Miller? Or how could any Hispanics and Muslims support anti-Muslim and anti-Hispanic immigration? Yet some black, Jewish and Muslim people voted for, and will again vote for, Donald Trump.
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@Jose Pieste Why? How can you support this administration that harms (in action and words) your own family members?
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@Jose Pieste I'd like to know why.
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I thought we already knew his character. These emails only confirm what we understood to be true.
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The irony of this is that diversity is exactly what makes the US unique and great. Why? On a genetic basis, the more diverse the population the more readily the population can evolve. This occurs because the best genetic traits from one group - say from Scandinavia - mixed with those from, say Africa, can come together to form a more evolved - fittest - person. On a social basis, the best social skills learned in one culture mixed with the best social skills of another culture results in a better set of social skills. A homogeneous genetic pool or culture cannot evolve as quickly as those with a diverse pool.
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@David M Why wouldn't the opposite happen? The worst traits are accentuated? Do those with the best traits in the US have more children or do those with the worst traits? The film Idiocracy cut too close to the bone.
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@David M " A homogeneous genetic pool or culture cannot evolve as quickly as those with a diverse pool."
Or we can just say that people from a lot of different cultures mixing together create something more creative that one culture can on it's own. it has happened many, many times in history on every continent.
Interestingly, the most beautiful people are also the most blended.
"...suggesting deeper intellectual ties to the world of white nationalism than previously known..."
Though this "revelation" hardly needed a smoking gun as evidence. In many facets of the immigration debacle, Miller isn't part of the problem. He is the problem.
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Interestingly, Coolidge is Pence's favorite past President, as well...
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My first introduction to the actual Virginia Dare was through Francis Ford Coppola’s Virginia Dare Winery in Northern California. It is, in part, a celebration of early American winemaking dating back to 1835, as well as the myths, mystery and diversity associated with America’s founding, with an emphasis on Native American food and culture. Imagine, then, my shock to discover upon reading this article that this positive, constructive homage to all that is good, embracing and inclusive about American society has been perverted by the sick and twisted minds perversely besmirching the White House, chief among them Miller and Trump. Not only are they betraying their oaths to defend and protect the Constitution, but they are using and relying on white-supremacist garbage like VDARE as their racist, xenophobic and fascist blueprint instead. Miller and Trump are doing to this beautiful founding legend what they’ve done to the Statue of Liberty and, just as terrifyingly, to our nation. Because of their shenanigans with Putin, Russia and Ukraine on the one hand, and their Manchurian residency in the White House, they are the very definition of our enemies—both foreign and domestic.
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On the description of this article on the NYTimes main page, and in the article itself, it mentions "intellectual ties". Can I suggest that the wrong word was inserted before "ties"?
Psuedo-intellectual would be better.
There are people who profess the earth is flat, and that evolution isn't real. They like to fancy up their arguments as if they were carefully thought out and supported by evidence, too.
Does our immigration policy and our laws need repair? Certainly, but the ethnicity of new arrivals isn't the problem. And preserving "whiteness" certainly isn't the goal - not in a nation that includes multiple states first settled by Spain, and states up and down the line that benefited by enslaving black people.
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@b fagan
I’m sorry but the people voting for Trump on immigration are very much looking at whiteness. They call it an invasion, “Fox News”. Since it isn’t an invasion the only thing they could possible see are that these people moving to their states aren’t white like them.
Clayton Bigsby (Chappelle’s show), being fictional and blind has an excuse, Miller and Kushner have none.
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Some very fine people on both sides - Trump
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White supremacy, not “white nationalism!” Stop sanitizing racism!! Call it what it is!! Please!
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The revelations of Stephen Miller's white-nationalist leanings are no surprise to me.
Just listening to this stiff's hyper-partisan rantings day in and day out gave me all the clues I needed long ago.
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Dont look too hard for meaning. Miller, Kutshner and Ivanka are Jews. Trump gets it both ways. He looks inclusive when he is anything but. Miller is like the rest of Trumps’ D team group.... but for taking the oath of absolute loyalty the closest he would get to 1600 would be driving by. Same goes for Barr and the rest of the Cabinet. Acting Cabinet
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@Casey Trump also tries to act like a Christian in order to get their vote. We have come to learn that Trump will embrace ANYONE who will praise and/or vote for him.
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Evil comes in many forms, Steven Miller, is one. He of all the Administration is the most dangerous to our immigrants, he lurks in the background, out of the public eye, and spews out of his hate filled mouth racist thoughts to those who will listen. Trump listens to him.
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How can it stand that one of the president's closest advisers is an open white supremacist? It's mind boggling that the GOP just shrugs this off as nothing.
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@Mike "It's mind boggling that the GOP just shrugs this off as nothing."
Why? It has been a central part of the GOP platform for decades. Just kept as quiet as possible (though anyone with a functioning brain figured it out long ago). The only difference is that they are now saying it out loud, in public, and saying it is OK to be racist.
At least now EVERYONE knows the true identify of the GOP as the White Supremacist party. And we will know what people stand for when they vote....
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@Mike
I think you May have missed some changes in the GOP in the last few decades.
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@Mike Because, in fact, the White House occupant is really not the problem. He is the symptom. The real problem is the entire GOP Congressional Caucus who enable all of what he and his henchmen do. Just listening to Lindsay Graham's recent rants proves the point.
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Roy Cohn was an virulently anti Semitic Jew, a gay man who reveled in gay bashing. In some respects, Miller appears to be channeling someone who could have been his mentor.
Trump's attraction to "The Snake" has always struck me as ironic in that, for 30% of the American population he is playing the title role.
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@Jim My thoughts exactly. I think of Roy Cohn every time Miller is mentioned.
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How are white nationalists different from neo-nazis? They sound just as ignorant, racist and hateful. Miller needs to study what the nazis did to his Jewish ancestors and stop kidding himself. He is giving rise to the same type of people who would do the same to him and his family here. Did he miss the Trump supporter who shot up a synogague earlier this spring? His cognitive dissonance is stunning. He's listening to Bannon who detests Jews? Does he have Stockholm Syndrome? Miller should answer in a court of law for his racist policies and crimes against humanity at the border he implemented. He has lost his humanity and mind.
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@kay
It’s rebranding. The alt-right is another name for them. They learned that by espousing the word nazi undermines their goals. And this hate may not be directly tied to such but simply using their information for a new form of this malignancy. It won’t be the same as Germany and Italy but their methods are.
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"...suggesting deeper intellectual ties to the world of white nationalism than previously known."
Really? It's been clear from the beginning these so-called "intellectual" ties existed. It's as if the only standard for causality that currently exists is "do you have a verifiable videotape of the X talking to Y and saying ABC? If not, you can't be certain the link exists."
Nonsense. People should study math, logic, history, literature -- all of these disciplines teach critical thinking skills that allow us to know things about the world.
And in this case....we didn't have the think that hard.
These emails confirmed what we already knew.
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Thank you!
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Miller and Kushner , Trump's two top political strategists, don't care about white supremists. They're using them to divide the country, scapegoating immigrants and Muslims, distracting people from the real problems. Any casual reader of history has seen this movie before: SPOILER - it didn't have a happy ending.
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Racist insanity IS one of the “main problems,” I am sorry to say. It doesn’t just attack people of color; it mutates national policy and our standing in the world.
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Wrong: they care very much about white supremacy and are influencing policy based on those beliefs.
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Most white supremacist are anti-semitic so where does that place Miller.
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“In a sermon that has now been covered by news outlets around the world, Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels of Beth Shir Shalom, a synagogue in Santa Monica, CA where Miller grew up, denounced Miller for his role in the proposal that resulted in the family separation crisis at the border, questioning how his values diverged so sharply from the congregation’s.” — from The Washington Post, September 2018.
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@Steve
A self-loathing Jew? Makes you wonder how Miller reconciles/justifies his racism with being Jewish.
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@Steve
He’s Placed next in line...
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We are truly living in a strange and frightening time. Miller is descended from Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe (as am I) who would not have been allowed into our country after 1924.
I cannot comprehend the sickness in Miller's soul.
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@Kevin Rothstein
His uncle published an op-ed piece in Politico last year. It's worth a read.
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@Kevin Rothstein
There were Jews that supported Hitler...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews
Among the activities of this group was the fight against the Jewish boycott of German goods. They also issued a manifesto that stated that the Jews were being fairly treated.
In 1934 the group made the following statement:
"We have always held the well-being of the German people and the fatherland, to which we feel inextricably linked, above our own well-being. Thus we greeted the results of January, 1933, even though it has brought hardship for us personally."
A possible reason why some German Jews supported Hitler may have been that they thought that his antisemitism only was for the purpose of "stirring up the masses".
The seemingly ironic fact that a Jewish association advocated loyalty to the Nazi programme gave rise to a contemporary joke about Naumann and his followers ending their meeting by giving the Nazi salute and shouting "Down With Us!".
Despite their extreme patriotism, the German government did not accept their goal of assimilation. The Association of German National Jews was declared illegal and dissolved on 18 November 1935. Max Naumann was arrested by the Gestapo the same day and imprisoned at the Columbia concentration camp. He was released after a few weeks, and died of cancer in May 1939.
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@Rima Regas It was indeed a piece worth reading. His name is David Glosser and if you google it, the politico article pops right up. It’s worthwhile reading
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A Jewish white power nationalist as one of Trump's closest advisors - this entire sentence should only exist as a completely daft horror movie script elevator pitch, not as a description of reality. The emails are just further confirmation of what we all know.
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@Rickibobbi Reminds one of the Dave Chapelle sketch about the secretive, white supremist icon, who because he's blind, doesn't know that he's really black.
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Normally this would get someone fired, but this is the Trump White House and it's Miller's views that got him the job in the first place. This White House won't disavow Miller, it will defend him. Instead of accepting Miller's own words and past associations (Richard Spencer) as proof that he is racist, Trump and his supporters will disingenuously claim that they're not racist; that liberals are intolerant and reflexively brand everyone they disagree with as racist. It's the classic "I know you are, but what am I?" defense children use when they're caught red-handed and deep-down know they're wrong.
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I would like to see how GOP members of Congress -- and the conservatives on the Supreme Court reviewing DACA -- respond to this truth, summarized by the former Breitbart editor: "[I]t’s easy to draw a clear line from the white supremacist websites where he is getting his ideas to current immigration policy." In other words, there is no urgent national defense argument. It's racism.
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As a Jew, all I can do is shake my head in disbelief and sadness. If indeed he had an Jewish upbringing, how did it fail him? What kind of pain or fear took him down this evil path? How can the Jewish American community prevent any more Stephen Millers rising to positions of power and causing more human suffering?
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@HRD
In my opinion, his Jewish upbringing did not fail him, as by all accounts he was raised in a typical, upstanding a Jewish community embedded in a good larger American community. He has failed them, and us. He believes that sitting at the table of power will protect him. Prominent Jews from 1930s are telling him from their graves that he is mistaken.
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@HRD I'm not Jewish, but I have to observe that all communities raise a certain number of aberrant individuals. Preventing that is a worthy goal, but I'm not sure we will ever get there.
A more fundamental goal, I think, is to avoid putting those people into positions of influence or leadership. In doing that, it appears that a number of Gentiles are to blame, in particular Bannon, Sessions, and Trump.
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I'm surprised that he didn't cite the Chinese exclusion act as a precedent and as one that should not have been repeal, but simply expanded to included anyone and everyone that the powers that be didn't like. If you are unfamiliar with it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chinese-exclusion-act/
Madness.
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Stephen Miller is neither peripheral nor extreme. He is nothing less than the heart and "soul" of the new Republican conservative: superior, intolerant, inflexible, arrogant, bigoted and driven by a righteous mission to crush all opposition.
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@S Jones " the new Republican conservative"
I would only argue that there is nothing "new" about this. It is the exact ideology that Reagan ran on in the 1980's and that Nixon was using in secret and has been part and parcel of every single Republican political program ever since. It is just now out in the open for everyone to see.
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“Deeper intellectual ties” to white nationalism sounds like an oxymoron.
Anyone surprised by Stephen Miller?
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Glad you ran a photo of Miller with the two other leading intellectuals of this administration.
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Why is everyone Trump surrounds himself with, a creep or in prison, or both ?
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@Bruce Savin He "drained the swamp" - remember?
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@Bruce Savin I'd change that question up slightly and ask, is there anyone Trump knows who ISN'T a creep, criminal, or convict?
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@Bruce Savin. Who else would a creep and a criminal surround himself with?
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So all the people who called him a racist were right. I am not sure who the " I am Jewish, therefore I am not racist" card will play this time.. Cause this time we have proofs.. Thank you Ms. McHugh!
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@GP
Look, no group of people is immune from racism because we are all human. This includes African-Americans, Latinos and Asians who may also use this silly defense.
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Stephen Miller was attractive to Trump as an aide because of his known racist views.
Before that, Stephen Miller was attractive to... Jeff Sessions. for Pete's sakes.
That is all one needs to know.
What one needs to question far more closely than has been is how Jared Kushner and every other Jewish collaborator with Trump live with themselves knowing and seeing what goes on?
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James Baldwin Was Right: Being A Jew In The Age of Trump, Jared Kushner, Neoliberal & Republican Jews
https://tinyurl.com/tlpx4kj
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@Rima Regas kushner and miller are aligned with the Israeli Likud party, hence Trump's affinity for illiberal governments and disdain for the liberal democracies in Europe .
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@John Reynolds
The Likud party and Bibi Netanyahu are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Adelson family. So is Jared Kushner, when it comes to foreign policy.
Also, such is the nature of oligarchic clans in making policy decisions and alliances with other members of the oligarchy, in this case the fundamentalists who supported Trump.
As one views the photo accompanying of Kushner, Mulnaney, Miller, there is nothing "intellectual" about it.
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Trump claims his is the most transparent administration there ever was (a lie of course). If it were, Mr Miller would be wearing a sheet rather than a suit. How disgusting, though not surprising. I will be grateful when this nightmare ends.
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@LaPine
I guess we could say that it is transparent in the sense that any critical thinker can see right through it.
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The problem with all of these people is that they don't call themselves what others clearly see that they are: RACIST. They simply don't see it that way. And that's dangerous.
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I really find it fascinating that a Jewish person like Miller is arrogant or ignorant enough to believe this sort of bigotry can be wielded, or even dabbled in, for personal gain. He must think that it can be contained once it's unleashed, limited to his own definition of "non-white" people -- primarily, it seems, Muslims and Latins. Well, you know, the Jews were once considered "non-white" by some people. In fact, I'll bet a lot of folks over at American Renaissance and VDare would probably tell you that Jews aren't really "white" at all. So Miller might want to take a little more care with that fire he's playing with. Things like that can get out of hand.
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@danielle "Things like that can get out of hand."
You'd think he got a clue when the racists marched in Charlottesville chanting "You will not replace us." Right?
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@Joe Rockbottom
I believe some on camera were saying “you will not replace us.” Others can clearly be heard saying “Jews will not replace us.” And, no, Miller didn’t get a clue.
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When the first response of to immigration is to protect the white race the the embracing of the hatred which is attached to it, everything else thereafter can only be worse.
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So, now we have people going by "The Camp of the Saints." What's next? A revival of the vile "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"? Away with Trump and all of his racist Republican ilk. Away!
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@Richard Hahn
How are you going to do that? It’s about half the country.
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@Dan, It isn't half the country. Only about 12% of the country. The other Trump supporters have no idea what is going on; ie; people who only get their news from Fox.
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There may be “ties”, but they aren’t “intellectual ties”. There is nothing intellectual about the mental sewage that Miller, Breitbart and Trump spew out. It’s just the same old KKK, neo-Nazi and, now, far right Republican, garbage.
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A repulsive man for sure.
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President keeps repeating that he is not a racist, that he is the "least racist person in the world." Yet he keeps an avowed racist on his staff, and gives him important missions and responsibilities. As the old saying goes, "if it quacks like a duck..."
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@jfdenver
Perhaps better said "birds of a feather flock together."
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I just don't understand white nationalist views by people like Miller. He's well to do, has more power than almost anyone else in the US, has interacted with minorities in his past. He does not fit the stereotype of white nationalists being downtrodden and looking for a scapegoat upon whom to blame their lack of fortune. Maybe it comes from an intense sense of personal insecurity. Whatever it is, the whole nation is suffering the consequences, given that he has found a sympathetic president and administration.
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@Mr. SeaMonkey If Eric Hoffer is to be believed, this hate for minorities, especially when you are one, is re-directed hate for oneself - that is, self-loathing as Hoffer puts it in the True Believer. You stumbled upon in your assessment regarding personal insecurity. I see this same behavior with many naturalized immigrants & first generations. It must be related to the Kapo complex seen in the Nazi concentration camps, where one tries to separate themselves in some way from their prisoners - yet both were Jews and both had to wear the yellow star patch. It has to be a form of self-annihilation with the result the Kapos being despised by both sides.
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@Mr. SeaMonkey He found he could get into a richer circle of people if he kept up that mindset, that there is a whole bunch of Boomers from the Deep South that, like Mitch McConnell, are trying to bring back the Confederacy: look at how Mitch treats the Senate, like his own tree-house club, with passwords,specific enemies that can be told by color and big No Girlz signs posted and all.
And they want to pull the rope ladder to Wealth, which they have a corner on, so that none of the 'lesser races' get their grubby hands on it.
It is time to knock them tree-forts over and retake our lunch money, on a grand scale.
But that is the level of adult thinking they have on the Repub side these days, so I doubt it will come to their mind just How Bad they are making themselves look on TV in the hearings: They act like schoolyard bullies trying to mis-direct the teachers...teachers who saw every bit of what happened and are going to run right over the top of the top of the Repubs with Law, Order and Precedence and the Repub Party is looking to erase themselves by acting like a RICO gang: Devoted to gaining and keeping power for their own enrichment, Not for the good of The Nation or The People.
The Republicans are acting out their true natures of being thugs and out of their league as far as responsibilities go, they just expect to take, not having to DO anything for it.
Boy are they, and Trump, in for a major surprise since the Adults started the hearings. Truth is a hard teacher.
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I'm happy to see that the NY Times actually dug a bit into immigration history, a topic of which so many Americans are completely ignorant, and connected the dots between today's white nationalists and those of the early 20th century. I wish our school system would teach immigration history: we'd be the richer, smarter, and wiser if it did.
Simply put, white nationalist rhetoric as it relates to immigrants is completely derived from the 1924 immigration legislation and the fear of Italians, Slavs, Jews, and other southern and eastern Europeans (btw, Times editor, eastern should be lowercase, since it refers to geographic east and not the Cold War era East). It is important that we understand this hatred in the context of long-standing fear of immigrants from places other than Protestant Great Britain and northern Europe.
It is only when we can contextualize it that we can truly understand it and fight it. Of course, given the context, and Mr. Miller's own ancestry, it all becomes rather laughable---if it wasn't so downright frightening!
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No it’s not. Try the nativist and Know-Nothing movements of what, the 1840s. And by the way, there’s this whole slavery thingy.
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Weird. But please don't call them intellectual ties. They're simply primal ties of hatred.
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@Somewhere in NY
"Mr. Miller also arranged for Peter Laufer, an author who wrote a book arguing for open borders with Mexico, to visit and debate Mr. Brimelow."
The so-called intellectuals on campus could learn from this. I don't know Mr. Miller or his heart, but it seem that he at least has the decency to go through the motions of an open mind and to respect the minds of the public enough to allow them to hear and judge conflicting views.
His policy positions rest on their own merits without regard to what web sites he might have read or shared. i would hope that anyone who fancied himself or sought to bean expert in immigration would approach it with a mind open to all sources and not pre-screen them based on the public fashion of acceptability. Remember Obama's unsavory extremist associations?
Figures a person like this would be appointed chief immigration advisor by this Bizarro Administration. Miller needs to be relieved of his position, ASAP.
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A Jew praising the 1924 immigration restrictions???
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@Charles Steindel
My father's family immigrated to St. Paul in 1923 from what is now Belarus. They just made it out just before the 1924 law was enacted. Every single one of our relatives who stayed was exterminated in the Nazi's camps. As a first generation American, I owe my existence to immigration. I am not in favor of "open borders" but how can I not have sympathy for others who are now seeking the exact same freedoms from persecution?
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@Charles. I was baptised Roman Catholic but I consider myself an atheist. Maybe Miller was just born Jewish but considers himself a white supremacist neo nazi? I'm guessing that may also be the case for Jared and Ivanka. At any rate I'm sure there were some "jews" that sided with Nazis in WWII.
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@Mark I have the same family history as you.
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