• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    “Dean Martin was born Dino Paul Crocetti and gave himself a stage name because of braindead xenophobes like Stephen,” McCann Ramírez observed. “Sinatra was also a child of Italian immigrants. Imagine watching them and thinking immigrants didn’t build the culture you fetishize today.”

    A similar point was made by civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill in a post on Bluesky.

    And both of them failed to point out the obvious: Miller’s great-grandparents themselves were Jewish Russian immigrants fleeing the pogroms in Russia.

    Without immigration, Miller would be freezing his racist ass off in Russia right now, keeping his head low while passing his antisemitic neighbors in the street, instead of playing the tough guy in the White House on behalf of an overweight elderly orange fascist with dementia.