#1201 Dehumanizing and abusing the outsider for political gain (Immigration)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 10 August 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Air Date: 8/10/2018
Today we take a look at some of the historical context that sheds light on our current immigration debate by showing that there is essentially nothing new about it, only the details are fresh. We'll also explore the evolution of criminalizing immigration, the abuse of separated children and the GOP need to build a demographic control machine.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Aviva Chomsky on the historical context of immigration in America - Who What Why - Air Date 6-21-18
Aviva Chomsky, a professor at Salem State University in Massachusetts, places the current debate about immigration in America in a broader historical context.
Ch. 2: The criminalization of immigration - Latino Rebels - Air Date 7-8-18
Marisa Franco of Mijente on the criminalization of immigration.
Anti-immigrant sentiment is on the rise but, in many ways, this is history repeating itself. And the history of using dehumanizing language against outside groups goes back a very long way.
Ch. 4: A Neuroscientist's Warning of Family Separation - In the Thick - Air Date 7-13-18
Dr. Gina Poe on understanding the science behind family separation and the neurological long-term impact of trauma.
Janine Jackson takes a quick look at what sources the press had been highlighting to inform the public about immigration detention.
Tim Wise's commentary on how the rhetoric of hatred is being used increase our tolerance for cruelty.
Law professor Robert L. Tsai examines the right's anti-immigrant, demographic control machine. Robert wrote the Boston Review article "Trumpism Before Trump" with Calvin TerBeek.
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Ch. 11: Final comments on the debated definition of Democratic Socialism
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| 0:00.0 | Really what this is is the right wing trying to dehumanize immigrants of color from the global south |
| 0:05.4 | and lower the threshold for our national acceptance of cruelty. |
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| 0:32.3 | a left podcast in which we shall look at immigration from the history of dehumanization through to |
| 0:38.8 | the future the GOP is trying to build with a demographics control machine. Cook's today come from |
| 0:44.4 | who want why Latino rebels code switch in the thick counter spend speak out with 10 wise and |
| 0:51.6 | this is hell. Even among European immigrants though do we have a short memory in terms of the |
| 1:04.4 | historical framework because certainly they was pushed back against Irish immigrants and Italian |
| 1:09.7 | immigrants at various points as well. Yes there absolutely was and the immigration |
| 1:18.8 | legislation restrictive racially restrictive immigration legislation started after the civil war |
| 1:25.2 | but for us to address this this problem in the eyes of congress that people's color were now |
| 1:30.3 | going to be able to obtain citizenship by being physically present and then having children |
| 1:35.5 | who would become citizens by birth. And so there was a very strong push to racially restrict |
| 1:43.2 | immigration in order to maintain the whiteness of the country and that started with the restrictions |
| 1:48.8 | against Asians, Chinese, Japanese and then all Asians. And Asia was defined as a very large territory |
| 1:55.6 | about three quarters of the world's territory. And then it was extended even to those European |
| 2:01.1 | who were considered to be not quite white enough. So their immigration was never stopped entirely. |
| 2:07.8 | People like to Irish the Italians, the Greeks, the Poles, the sort of not white enough Europeans |
| 2:14.5 | but it was drastically cut back also in the starting in 1917 and through the 1920s. |
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