{"id":6262,"date":"2014-08-15T19:38:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T23:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2014-08-15T19:38:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T23:38:41","slug":"xenophobia-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6262","title":{"rendered":"Xenophobia then and now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I was watching <em>The Tramp and the Dictator<\/em>, a documentary about Charlie Chaplin&#8217;s 1940 film, <em>The Great Dictator<\/em>, in which I came across this gem:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YO_WlQ4nDgM\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The speaker is Rep. Martin Dies from Texas, who later became known as the founder of the infamous House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities (initially nicknamed the Dies committee).\u00a0A month earlier, Mr. Dies also presented his views to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnalc.org\/search?q=martin+dies+america+for+americans\">radio audience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the words uttered by some anti-immigration politicians and activists today in the United States are little different from the words uttered nearly 80 years ago by Mr. Dies.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6262' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I was watching The Tramp and the Dictator, a documentary about Charlie Chaplin&#8217;s 1940 film, The Great Dictator, in which I came across this gem: The speaker is Rep. Martin Dies from Texas, who later became known as the founder of the infamous House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities (initially nicknamed the Dies <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6262' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-25-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6264,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}