Discussion: Holocaust Museum To Lawmakers: Don't Turn Your Backs On Refugees

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It amazes me (not really), for all their constant Nazi comparisons, the GOP doesn’t recognize the parallels here. Or at the very least, realize that others do see the parallels, and don’t have any issue pointing it out.

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The GOP may be the first to draw parallels between Assad gassing his population and the atrocities of ISIL with Nazis. What they fail to recognize are the parallels of America’s behavior turning away refugees during the holocaust and most every other conflict in the last 100 years.

How one can recognize the hell people are in and turn them away is beyond me.

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Yeah, sorry, unless it comes from AIPAC, nobody in DC cares what actual real live Jews think.

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Simply

they aren’t in that quagmire and they don’t think they will ever be in that spot.

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Anne Frank was a war refugee turned away from fleeing to America too.

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And because of that she got famous! It’s the American Dream!

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These Teabagger motherfuckers only care about the Jews and Israel because they believe all the Jews will all convert to Christianity during the Rapture, and Israel will be the battlefield. The Jews are a matter of convenience, not a matter of empathy.

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No, in Bagger Mythology, the Jews don’t win. They lose.

They precipitate the Second Coming by re-establishing Israel and rebuilding the Temple, but are sent to the flames for having rejected and/or killed “christ” (each bagger myth is a bit different on this)

So to the christofascists, the jews are the ultimate patsies.

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I like to remind those who are all about “Let’s get Christ back in Christmas” a bit of scripture for them to chew on if that slogan has any meaning to them:

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

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I’d like to see a bagger read the book of Matthew, Chapters 5, 6, and 7, out loud without either spontaneously combusting or uncontrollably frothing and screaming “COM’NIZZUM!! COM’NIZZUM!!”.

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The Museum calls on public figures and citizens to avoid condemning today’s refugees as a group. It is important to remember that many are fleeing because they have been targeted by the Assad regime and ISIS for persecution and in some cases elimination on the basis of their identity.

The thing that was never supposed to happen again is happening again.

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The GOP candidates are creating enemies by the hour, a swarm of “mosquitoes”
that will destroy what is left of our “American values.”

Look at what happened to defense and weapons stock prices on Monday.
Republican empty rhetoric all this week has kept those stock prices up.
As always with the GOP, follow the money.

I may not agree with every facet of Hillary or Bernie, but the fear of any one
of the GOP’s hateful candidates becoming president will makes me sprint
to the polls to vote against them.

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This almost makes me wish that I believed in Jesus as the savior…just to see what he’d say/do to all these “Christians” in the afterlife.

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Thank you, Holocaust Museum.

The GOP politicians and leaders need to be shamed for the misery they are adding to people’s lives.

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Hey, you have little speck in your eye there. Let me remove this log from my own eyesocket so I can help you.

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I find the prospect of one of these Republicans becoming President (and appointing Supreme Court justices) so terrifying that I promise to work to get others to the polls as well.

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The GOP depends on the absolute worst impulses in human nature. It’s not even close. It also depends on moronic intelligence, ignorance and, yes, stupidity (even people with I.Q.'s over 100 can be stupid…look at the GOP Debate audience)

It also depends on people not reading books…and, to be fair, this state of affairs is not confined to the U.S,

Russia lost an area at least the size of the U.S. east of the Mississippi during WWII. The Nazi Germans turned that area into a moonscape.

And yet, some of today’s Russian racists wear Swastikas.

The Paris attacks are a GoldMine…to the GOP. Look at the energy now focused on bigotry (the surest and most compelling factor getting their voters interested)…away from the normal state of Affairs of GOP petulance (Benghazi) and childishness (govt. shutdowns) and stubbornness (repeals of the ACA)

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This contemporary version of ‘Christians’?
Won’t be anywhere near the same zip code as Jesus.
IMHO they’ll need to dress for a warmer clime.

jw1

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The War on Christmas is only limited to Starbucks coffee cups this year.

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And unfortunately the cowardly Democrats who voted with the Republicans also need to be shamed.

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