{"id":23591,"date":"2020-09-04T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T12:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23591"},"modified":"2020-09-04T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:27:30","slug":"hollywood-hypocrisy-melania-trump-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/09\/04\/hollywood-hypocrisy-melania-trump-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTolerant\u201d Liberals Attack America\u2019s Immigrant First Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Individuals on the left-liberal side of the political spectrum \u2013 be it in North America, Europe, or elsewhere \u2013 usually like to depict themselves as \u201ctolerant,\u201d \u201copen-minded,\u201d \u201cinclusive,\u201d and \u201cpro-immigrant.\u201d At the same time, they often portray anyone who supports rational and sensible things like border security and national sovereignty as allegedly \u201cchauvinistic,\u201d \u201cxenophobic,\u201d or even \u201cracist.\u201d The attacks by singer Bette Midler and other leftists on First Lady Melania Trump \u2013 an actual immigrant and the country\u2019s first naturalized citizen first lady<\/a> \u2013 following her speech<\/a> at the Republican National Convention are thus a prime example of political hypocrisy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An angry Midler tweeted<\/a> out that Mrs. Trump \u201ccan speak several words in a few languages. Get that illegal alien off the stage!\u201d She also mocked the First Lady\u2019s accent: \u201cOh, God. She still can\u2019t speak English.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tweets<\/a> quickly backfired, as Midler faced a barrage of criticism from across the political spectrum, forcing the singer to subsequently walk back the comments. However, the reluctant semi-apology does little to change the xenophobic nature of her initial outbursts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other leftists piled on as well, including comedian Kathy Griffin<\/a> calling the immigrant first lady a \u201cb—,\u201d and former NBA player Rex Chapman retweeting an image comparing Mrs. Trump\u2019s dress to Adolf Hitler<\/a>. (Never mind that her native Slovenia was actually a victim of Nazi German conquest and terror during the Second World War.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, attacks on the first lady \u2013 whether explicitly xenophobic or not \u2013 are nothing new<\/a>. Only a few days before Mrs. Trump\u2019s convention speech, former New York Times<\/em> reporter Kurt Eichenwald vented his fury and attacked her for renovating the White House Rose Garden, declaring that a \u201cforeigner\u201d has \u201cno right to wreck our history.\u201d<\/a> Following an online backlash \u2013 including from liberals such as CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper \u2013 Eichenwald begrudgingly deleted the statements in question and apologized, but \u2013 again \u2013 what has been said, cannot be unsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we have seen, some leftists and liberals admittedly\npushed back against the above vicious, personal attacks against the first lady.\nHowever, the ease with which such statements sometimes spill out of leftists\nlike Bette Midler \u2013 people who claim to be uber-tolerant and to adore the\nforeign-born \u2013 is truly astounding, and disturbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What it also suggests is that for many on the left their professions of love for immigrants amount to utilitarian and opportunistic virtue-signaling. They see the foreign-born as likely allies and reinforcements \u2013 not without reason<\/a> \u2013 in the political struggle to implement a \u201cprogressive,\u201d left-wing agenda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that \u201clove\u201d tends to be quite selective and conditional, for it usually does not extend to immigrants and naturalized citizens who are not on board with the leftist agenda \u2013 e.g. immigrants who agree with the majority of native-born Americans about the necessity of secure borders. In fact, many immigrants from former communist countries (including Mrs. Trump) are probably reminded of Marxist-Leninist regimes back home that claimed to love and rule in the name of \u201cworkers and peasants,\u201d but quickly showed their contempt and resorted to bullying when actual workers and peasants were anything but obedient subjects of the socialist state. In Melania Trump\u2019s specific case, the left\u2019s dislike for her is also an extension of its hatred for her husband. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Individuals on the left-liberal side of the political spectrum \u2013 be it in North America, Europe, or elsewhere \u2013 usually like to depict themselves as \u201ctolerant,\u201d \u201copen-minded,\u201d \u201cinclusive,\u201d and \u201cpro-immigrant.\u201d At the same time, they often portray anyone who supports rational and sensible things like border security and national sovereignty as allegedly \u201cchauvinistic,\u201d \u201cxenophobic,\u201d or<\/p>\n

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