{"id":1788,"date":"2018-08-13T15:34:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T19:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:20:28","slug":"stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-politico-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/08\/13\/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-politico-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I\u2019m His Uncle. – POLITICO Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

If my nephew\u2019s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I\u2019m His Uncle. – POLITICO Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

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Such an appeal to people like Stephen Miller and Trump is futile. They are unencumbered by the need for philosophical\/moral\/logical consistency. Hitler, when faced with the possibility that he might have Jewish ancestry, is said to have defined “Jewishness” in Nazi law to exclude himself specifically<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In 1933, the London Daily Mirror published a picture of a gravestone in a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest inscribed with some Hebrew characters and the name Adolf Hitler, but this Bucharest Hitler could not have been the Nazi leader\u2019s grandfather. At the time, though, this picture sufficiently worried Hitler that he had the Nazi law defining Jewishness written to exclude Jesus Christ and himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If my nephew\u2019s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out. Source: Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I\u2019m His Uncle. – POLITICO Magazine Such an appeal to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[177,296,336,369],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-immigrants","tag-refugees","tag-stephen-miller","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":72,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2017\/02\/26\/immigration-agents-discover-new-freedom-to-deport\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788,"position":0},"title":"Immigration Agents Discover New Freedom to Deport Under Trump – NYTimes.com","author":"aslam","date":"February 26, 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"\u201cFreedom to deport.\u201d \u201cCollateral arrests.\u201d Language evolves to accommodate fascism.Immigration Agents Discover New Freedom to Deport Under Trump - NYTimes.com","rel":"","context":"In \"deportation\"","block_context":{"text":"deportation","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/tag\/deportation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":732,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/01\/17\/carmen-ortiz-and-stephen-heymann-accountability\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788,"position":1},"title":"Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann: accountability for prosecutorial abuse | Glenn Greenwald","author":"aslam","date":"January 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesSee on m.guardiannews.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1429,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/09\/30\/forced-by-a-private-company-to-wear-an-ankle\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788,"position":2},"title":"Forced by a Private Company to Wear an Ankle Monitor? 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