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A group of refugees fleeing violence has faced fear and discrimination from the american public and american leaders is one that weve sadly seen before. as the intercept points out the anti-syrian muslim refugee rhetoric weve seen today mirrors calls to reject jewish refugees during the nazi era. when refugees were derided as communists or anarchist infiltrators intent on spreading revolution, part of a global jewish capitalist conspiracy to take control of the u.s., and nazis in disguise. and a...

Refugees today, many rejected jewish refugees simply because they werent christian. that is not the only historical parallel now being drawn. yesterday as weve discussed on the show, the democratic mayor of roanoke, virginia david bowers explained his opposition to allowing syrian refugees in his city by pointing approvingly to the internment of japanese americans following the pearl harbor attacks when anti-japanese hysteria broke out among the american public. >> it was that hysteria in the mo...