#1661 Immigration is Actively Good for the Country Unless You're Racist
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 10/8/2024
Immigration dominates our politics in the worst way because one side benefits from lying about it and the other can't get their messaging together to create an effective rebuttal. Opposing immigration and stoking blatantly racist arguments doesn't just make the right bad or unsavory, it also makes them wrong on literally all of the facts.
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KEY POINTS
KP 4: Did Donald TRUMP Make Germany RACIST Again - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 9-27-24
KP 6: Trump's rhetoric on immigrants gets even darker - The ReidOut - Air Date 9-27-24
(55:21) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On what Democrats need to do on immigration messaging
Articles:
The Democrats' Shameful, Foolish Surrender on Immigration
Kamala Harris Needs to Meet the Moment and Reframe Our Poisonous Immigration Debate
DEEPER DIVES
(1:01:12) SECTION A - DISINFORMATION
(1:14:11) SECTION B - WHITE SUPREMACY
(1:37:38) SECTION C - LATINO ANTI-IMMIGRATION VIEWS
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Immigration dominates our politics in the worst way because one side benefits from lying about it and the other side can't get their |
| 0:15.2 | messaging together to create an effective rebuttal. Opposing immigration and stoking blatantly |
| 0:20.8 | racist arguments doesn't just make the right bad or unsavory. It also makes |
| 0:26.1 | them wrong on literally all of the facts. Sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes today includes the Tom Hartman program, Democracy Now, Deep State Radio, The Read Out, and Lab Bittard Podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, |
| 0:45.0 | there will be more in three sections. |
| 0:47.0 | Section A, Disinformation, Section B, White Supremacy, |
| 0:51.0 | and Section C, Latino Latino anti-immigrant views. using hate explicitly as a political weapon and this is what Trump advance are up. |
| 1:07.0 | In Springfield they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating the pets of the people that live there. |
| 1:19.0 | They're reviving these dangerous racist myths and these are not even new. In the 1890s in the |
| 1:28.4 | United States East Coast German and Dutch immigrants were slandered with claims that they were making sausages from local pets. |
| 1:37.5 | The assertion was even made into a well-known folkshong. |
| 1:41.2 | And Chinese immigrants suffered the same sort of defamation again starting in |
| 1:45.1 | the mid-18th century. Right through last year I mean last year in Ohio there was |
| 1:50.3 | or in California excuse me there was a Thai restaurant that was forced to shut down because local |
| 1:56.3 | white racists were claiming that they were serving dogs and cats and it just you know blew up their business. So now it's Donald Trump and |
| 2:04.4 | J.D. Vance's turn telling these vicious racist lies in this case that |
| 2:09.5 | legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio who are there legally, these are not illegal immigrants |
| 2:15.1 | contrary to what Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are saying, are eating the pets of local |
| 2:20.4 | white people, which is also a lie. And most recently Don Jr. even |
| 2:26.3 | repeated his father's frequent claim that black people have lower IQs than |
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