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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Leni
Max Boot is an azzho.
Boot was horrible to Tucker.
moronic article.
You can always pack up and go back to where you came from.
Well, buh bye. Both my parents were legal immigrants and I do feel like I belong here. Even more so now.
Then leave.
“I came to this country 41 years ago. Now I feel like I don’t belong here. reply: Leave. “
At least he should give us his thinking about places on this earth where he might feel like he belonged. Back to Russia maybe? Does he see a downside to that?
Few if any of the DACA's are 48 years old, so far as I know.
If they were, Reagan would already have amnestied them thirty years ago.
Can’t get past the first few sentences. My hip waders don’t go up high enough for all the bs.
Amen...
Yes. Tucker reran it on Monday.
This guy has been cranking out pro-war propaganda for years on end, resulting in unremitting human suffering and a severe diminution of our place in the world, not to mention trillions of dollar flushed down the drain, and thousands of honorable soldiers dead. Now, finding himself at least where he ought to have been decades ago, without a party or a platform, he wants to cry “anti-Semitism”? Sorry, this Jew’s not buying it.
If you don’t like it here in the USA, you are free to depart and never come back!!!
If that’s how you think than you don’t belong here. And neither does the Communist propaganda news source call The Washington Post.
Sent by a 13-year-old under the covers at midnight with his mom yelling at him to go to sleep.
Grow up Max Boot.! Stop using social media.
Das Boot, a great movie.
You retained your communist upbringing, apparently!
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