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In reply to the discussion: Pierce: The Historical Significance of 'Cosmopolitan' as an Insult [View all]LeftInTX
(25,743 posts)49. Are you confusing white with Nordic?
Was the documentary you saw on the KKK recent? They have changed their recruiting recently. For instance, they are no longer anti-Catholic.
I'm Armenian and am not blessed with Kardashian dark features. I went to high school with plenty of German, Scandinavian, and Polish kids who were darker than me. I envied their tans.
Cary Grant is darker than me.
John Boehner is darker than me. Here is Boehner's high school picture. (Unlike Trump his tan is not fake. I hate it when they accuse Boehner of a fake tan!!!) And a picture of his family. He is the tan boy on the grass. My son who is 1/2 Mexican has the same coloring as Boehner.
(I can't believe I'm talking about this on DU)
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As must be his non-English speaking grandparents, from Poland, spinning in their graves n/t
BamaRefugee
Aug 2017
#41
Eventually they will be crawling on all fours. Many already seem to be there already, for trump...nt
lostnfound
Aug 2017
#4
It's not only a historic signaling device - it's a conservative religious signaling
Nay
Aug 2017
#35
Shouldn't POTUS be required to pass the test immigrants take to become citizens,
SleeplessinSoCal
Aug 2017
#17
I caught that, too, and it floored me. "Rootless cosmopolite" goes back way before Stalin, iirc...
Hekate
Aug 2017
#32
soooo, cosmopolitan, worldly, intellectual, are insults? dog whistles to the great
niyad
Aug 2017
#37
See my post above. It's specifically anti-Semitic because Jews were not "rooted" in "the land"...
Hekate
Aug 2017
#44