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Reports of diseased immigrant children mirror Nazi propaganda - Cafe Con Leche Republicans
"In an effort to create justification for the deportation of these children without granting refugee status, many of these reporters are echoing propaganda tactics eerily reminiscent of the Nazi campaign against European Jews during World War II.
A far more insidious technique employed by writers in anti-immigrant press, however, takes a page out of the Nazi propaganda handbook. It involves using legitimate examples of sick immigrant children with various ailments, some serious, and depicting it as far more widespread and dangerous than it actually is.
The “filthy, disease-ridden immigrant” stereotype isn’t particularly new, and while this hysteria over a case of lice may be tearing up social media, its inspiration in Nazi propaganda seems to escape the recollection of those engaging in it. The mere idea that both anti-immigrant stories and Nazi propaganda used identical tactics of lice infestation to demonize their targets should give modern writers pause.
Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda for the Third Reich during World War II, waged a campaign to dehumanize Jews in their occupied lands, to ultimately justify their isolation, incarceration, and eventual extermination. That included spreading the idea that Jews carried dangerous diseases. “A recurrent theme in Nazi antisemitic propaganda was that Jews spread diseases,” the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum stated in an online educational essay about the Nazi propaganda machine. It stated that the Nazis would use reports of sickness or outbreak to justify isolating Jews in ghettos and ultimately disposing of them."
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"In an effort to create justification for the deportation of these children without granting refugee status, many of these reporters are echoing propaganda tactics eerily reminiscent of the Nazi campaign against European Jews during World War II.
A far more insidious technique employed by writers in anti-immigrant press, however, takes a page out of the Nazi propaganda handbook. It involves using legitimate examples of sick immigrant children with various ailments, some serious, and depicting it as far more widespread and dangerous than it actually is.
The “filthy, disease-ridden immigrant” stereotype isn’t particularly new, and while this hysteria over a case of lice may be tearing up social media, its inspiration in Nazi propaganda seems to escape the recollection of those engaging in it. The mere idea that both anti-immigrant stories and Nazi propaganda used identical tactics of lice infestation to demonize their targets should give modern writers pause.
Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda for the Third Reich during World War II, waged a campaign to dehumanize Jews in their occupied lands, to ultimately justify their isolation, incarceration, and eventual extermination. That included spreading the idea that Jews carried dangerous diseases. “A recurrent theme in Nazi antisemitic propaganda was that Jews spread diseases,” the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum stated in an online educational essay about the Nazi propaganda machine. It stated that the Nazis would use reports of sickness or outbreak to justify isolating Jews in ghettos and ultimately disposing of them."
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