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I came to this country 41 years ago. Now I feel like I don’t belong here.
Washington Post ^ | September 5th 2017 | Max Boot

Posted on 09/06/2017 8:23:12 AM PDT by Ennis85

I am white. I am Jewish. I am an immigrant. I am a Russian American. But until recently I haven’t focused so much on those parts of my identity. I’ve always thought of myself simply as a normal, unhyphenated American.

Ever since I arrived here, along with my mother and grandmother, from Russia in 1976 at age 7, I have been eager to assimilate. And I’ve done a pretty good job of it. I don’t have any accent, and I haven’t written much about my origins — which, at any rate, don’t have much to do with my job, which is writing about military history and American national security policy. So people are often surprised to find out that I wasn’t born in the United States. When I tell them where I’m from, they often ask, “Were your parents diplomats?” Nope. My parents were Russian Jews who fled the oppression of the Soviet Union and found a haven in the Land of Opportunity.

But that didn’t seem to matter much. Until Donald Trump came along.

Last year I experienced the first sustained anti-Semitism I have ever encountered in the United States. Like many other anti-Trump commentators, I was deluged with neo-Nazi propaganda on social media, including a picture of me in a gas chamber, with Herr Trump in a Nazi uniform pulling the lever to kill me. This was accompanied by predictable demands that I leave this country to “real” Americans and go back to where I came from — or, alternatively, to Israel.

At one time it was easy to dismiss such sentiments as the ravings of a handful of marginal losers. That’s harder to do now that the president of the United States has embraced the far-right agenda. Trump came to office vilifying Mexicans and Muslims.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: boot; immigration; max; russianamericans; trump
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1 posted on 09/06/2017 8:23:12 AM PDT by Ennis85
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YAWN
2 posted on 09/06/2017 8:24:19 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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“As president, he has praised the protesters who marched with neo-Nazis in Charlottesville as “very fine people” and come out against taking down Confederate monuments, symbols of white supremacy”

Funny how he didn’t get riled up when he also praised the people who marched with Antifa.


3 posted on 09/06/2017 8:24:24 AM PDT by Ennis85
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So the #NeverTrump people are all victims? Not buying it.


4 posted on 09/06/2017 8:24:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Ennis85

I seriously doubt this true.


5 posted on 09/06/2017 8:24:55 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Ennis85

I’d tell Max to cry me a river, but I don’t believe a word of this. It’s just more propaganda from The Washington Compost.


6 posted on 09/06/2017 8:25:35 AM PDT by Pravious
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Well, bless your little heart, Max.....


7 posted on 09/06/2017 8:26:37 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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Dear Max:

You exposed yourself as a big-government globalist war-monger a long time ago.

If you don't feel welcome here anymore, then please go home to whatever Marxist sh!t-hole police state comes closest to what you've been trying to create here in my country.

Sincerely,

A Deplorable American

8 posted on 09/06/2017 8:26:42 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Ennis85

Donald Trump is about as anti-Semitic as Golda Meier.


9 posted on 09/06/2017 8:27:48 AM PDT by IronJack (sh)
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To: Ennis85

If this fellow is 48 and did not experience anti-Semitism till last year, he must have been living in an underground bunker.

Sadly it can be found EVERYWHERE, all over the world. Donald Trump did not invent it the day he scored the nomination.


10 posted on 09/06/2017 8:28:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Ennis85

$1 says this is +/- 80% bullshit.


11 posted on 09/06/2017 8:29:37 AM PDT by tomkat
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I came to this country 41 years ago. Now I feel like I don’t belong here.

Leave.

12 posted on 09/06/2017 8:30:06 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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Antifa and BLM thugs caused the problem in Charlottesville.
13 posted on 09/06/2017 8:31:26 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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It looks like you are blaming Trump for everything.


14 posted on 09/06/2017 8:31:45 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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Cah cah doo doo.


15 posted on 09/06/2017 8:32:09 AM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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Whinging Soviet mole...


16 posted on 09/06/2017 8:32:19 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Why is it no one ever discusses the rabid Amerophobia which infects Islam and its adherents?)
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This guy was just interviewed by Tucker Carlson. Another left-wing moron. Should be interesting to see if he’s telling the truth by looking up his twitter account.


17 posted on 09/06/2017 8:32:37 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Ennis85

In before Curly Bill.


18 posted on 09/06/2017 8:33:33 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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The whole purpose for this story:

“...Like many other anti-Trump commentators...”


19 posted on 09/06/2017 8:33:35 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Ennis85

Oh for F’s sake...what nonsensical drivel...


20 posted on 09/06/2017 8:33:39 AM PDT by Professional
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