In 1942, America turned away Jewish refugee children. Wife of US Commissioner of Immigration said they would grow up to be "ugly adults."pic.twitter.com/ATkOF5ISBf
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Here's what Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II @zeynep https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/17/what-americans-thought-of-jewish-refugees-on-the-eve-of-world-war-ii/ …pic.twitter.com/AAKv4Arp6H
Even Germans expelled from Polish and Czech areas after WWII earned "Auschwitz"-stances and received enduring hostility.
Most people today do not understand how pervasive antisemitism was in the 1930s.
A zillion people in my mentions saying to me "but the Jews then were good"; no idea of the history of racism against them?
iirc, ~WWII was when America was doing the "kosher (halal) labelling is a Jewish (Muslim) tax on us" that .au et. al. is doing now?
Like this. "They won't assimilate" or "they'll kill you/radicalize your children" WAS said a lot about Jews in WWII.https://twitter.com/JanJohnsonFL/status/778208821286232064 …
And the same thing was said about Catholics before it was said about Jews. Most Americans forget about the Know Nothings.
Both groups took a wrong turn on pork
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