{"id":23808,"date":"2020-10-28T06:36:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23808"},"modified":"2020-10-28T06:36:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:36:29","slug":"linda-ronstadt-compares-trump-hitler-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/10\/28\/linda-ronstadt-compares-trump-hitler-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Ronstadt\u2019s Distorted Views on History and Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Singer Linda Ronstadt, who was promoting a documentary film about herself, was recently interviewed by two leftist media outlets, the U.S.-based Salon<\/a><\/em>and the British Guardian<\/a><\/em>. Her skewed, simplistic, and sometimes even slanderous assertions on history and immigration policy \u2013 including referring to Mexicans as the \u201cnew Jews\u201d \u2013 would not be noteworthy if it were not for the fact that they are so widespread on the left side of the political spectrum. And famous people like Ronstadt often play a significant role in spreading the distorted narrative that somehow immigration enforcement equals the Third German Reich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of her part-Mexican heritage (Ronstadt\u2019s great-grandfather emigrated to Mexico from Germany during the 19th<\/sup> century) and Mexican music, the singer eagerly took swipes at the current president and his immigration policies, which she claims have been \u201cencouraging resentment of people from Mexico.\u201d Ronstadt denied that there was any southwestern border crisis or emergency in 2019 \u2013 even though the facts<\/a> and numbers<\/a> say otherwise – and asserted that \u201cas soon as Trump came down that escalator and called Mexican[s]rapists, I said, \u2018This is the new Hitler and Mexicans are the new Jews.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be clear, the claim that Trump called all Mexicans \u201crapists\u201d during his June 2015 announcement speech<\/a> has been debunked long ago, including by left-leaning Politifact<\/a>. And while Trump\u2019s argument was admittedly awkwardly-phrased, the context of the actual speech shows that the then presidential candidate was attempting to convey that drug traffickers, rapists, and other criminals<\/a> try to sneak into our country illegally \u2013 taking advantage of porous borders \u2013 along with run-of-the-mill economic migrants. Nevertheless, this has not prevented the opponents of secure borders and immigration enforcement from repeating the claim, or from making false historical analogies \u2013 like Ronstadt did with her \u201cnew Hitler, new Jews\u201d claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comparing Donald Trump\u2019s comments about illegal border crossers from Mexico, and his subsequent policies to secure the southwestern border and stem unauthorized migration, to Hitler\u2019s stigmatization of the Jews and the subsequent genocide during the Holocaust is wrong and offensive on many levels. The historical background explaining why was laid out in previous blogs (see here<\/a> and here<\/a>), but the bottom line is that the German National Socialists were actively hunting down all Jews, as they conquered most of Europe, and murdering them for racial reasons. That is very different from apprehending and detaining in decent conditions foreign nationals or all racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds who violate our borders, and who are always free to leave detention and return to their homelands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling every leader who defends his country\u2019s national sovereignty and right to control their country\u2019s borders and reduce illegal migration \u201cHitler\u201d is a prime example of reductio ad Hitlerum<\/a><\/em>(\u201creducing everything to Hitler\u201d). The fallacy was coined not long after the Second World War by Leo Strauss \u2013 a German-Jewish political philosopher who left Germany shortly before Hitler\u2019s rise to power \u2013 as a version of the much better-known reduction ad absurdum <\/em>(\u201creducing to absurdity\u201d) fallacy. But referring to a pro-enforcement president as the \u201cnew Hitler,\u201d and to illegal aliens from Mexico as the \u201cnew Jews,\u201d is not just absurd. It is outright dangerous because it trivializes and politicizes the horrendous crimes committed by the actual Nazis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Singer Linda Ronstadt, who was promoting a documentary film about herself, was recently interviewed by two leftist media outlets, the U.S.-based Salonand the British Guardian. Her skewed, simplistic, and sometimes even slanderous assertions on history and immigration policy \u2013 including referring to Mexicans as the \u201cnew Jews\u201d \u2013 would not be noteworthy if it were<\/p>\n

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