• RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    This is how far we’ve shifted on immigration:

    The Immigration Reform and Control Act was passed in 1986 under the Reagan administration. It legalized most illegal immigrants who had arrived in the country prior to January 1, 1984.

    On signing the act into law at a ceremony held beside the newly-refurbished Statue of Liberty, Reagan said, “The legalization provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a free and open society. Very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they choose, they may become Americans.”

    The act did not address the status of children of undocumented migrants who were eligible for the amnesty program, and In 1987, Reagan used his executive authority to legalize the status of minor children of parents granted amnesty under the immigration overhaul, announcing a blanket deferral of deportation for children under 18 who were living in a two-parent household with both parents legalizing or with a single parent who was legalizing. That action affected an estimated 100,000 families.

    In his last speech as president, Reagan spoke on immigration:

    You can live in Germany, Turkey, or Japan, but you can’t become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the earth, can come live in America and become an American.
    — Ronald Reagan, 1988

    Wild to see the shift in rhetoric. This isn’t just to the left of Republicans, its even to the left of Democrats.

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      Hitler was Austrian, not German, didn’t look anything like the “Aryan superman” fantasy, and had some Jewish ancestry and that didn’t even slow him down; why would modern nazis be any different?

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        TBF at that point in history most of the differences between Germans and Austrians were that they had been ruled by different dynasties inbred bastards. They spoke the same language as the Germans and many Austrians understood themselves to be part of the German people. Modern Austria was made from whatever was left of the Austro-Hungarian empire after all the non-germans had left and had no history of being a territorial entity.

        In order not to make Germany benefit from losing the war they had to explicitly forbid what was then called “German Austria” from joining the German state in the Versailles treaty since unification with Germany was a popular wish at the time.

        This pan-Germanic sentiment was also part of the reason why the Anschluss, the Nazi annexation of Austria, would meet so little resistance and so much popular support a few decades later.

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          Yeah at that point the concept of “Germany” was still fairly new (rip to all the brave troops who fought valiantly and totally not in vain at Dybbøl Mølle. Someday Denmark will reach the Eider. Probably when both are under the ocean)

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        Hitler was German. Austria-Hungary was a multinational empire under German and Hungarian rulers at the time Hitler was born but there was never a separate Austrian ethnicity or anything like that. After WW1 Austria was simply another German state and that’s what drove the idea of the anschluss.

        I didn’t refresh my page so I didn’t notice SoyViking wrote a longer and better version of my comment haha

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    Yeah but they aren’t coming for the Jews. First they come for the gender queer. He should not speak up, for he is not gender queer.

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      Unless you count the time he entered a girl’s high school long distance race on the final lap and sprinted to the end. (This is a real thing that actually happened.)

  • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    So that was obviously a ploy on miller’s part, he said the first thing so that he could say the second thing. But why? To test how far he could push it while still using his ethnicity as a shield?