a group of refugees fleeing violence has faced fear and discrimination from the american public and american leaders is one that we ve sadly seen before. as the intercept points out the anti-syrian muslim refugee rhetoric we ve 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 as we see with syrian refugees today, many rejected jewish refugees simply because they weren t christian. that is not the only historical parallel now being drawn. yesterday as we ve 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
in the states right now in which a group of refugees fleeing violence has faced fear and discrimination from the american public and american leaders is one that we ve sadly seen before. as the intercept points out the anti-syrian muslim refugee rhetoric we ve 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 as we see with syrian refugees today, many rejected jewish refugees simply because they weren t christian. that is not the only historical parallel now being drawn. yesterday as we ve 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 am
refugees today, many rejected jewish refugees simply because they weren t christian. that is not the only historical parallel now being drawn. yesterday as we ve 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 months following december 7th that led to the forced evacuation of 120,000 japanese-americans and their parents from the west coast. they were ordered from their homes, sent first to assembly centers and then on to ten camps away from the coast on desolate federal lands far from military installations. 120,000 people put behind barbed wire simply because of the color of their skin and a hysteria that grew from ignorance, fear, and racism. actor george takei spent four years in the internment ca