It is impossible for anybody to actually quote Stephen Miller and prove that’s he supports white nationalist ideology, a task that would be fairly simple if he did. Instead,
the left-wing media and their friends at SPLC use quotes from actual white nationalists, even Adolf Hitler, to filler the article and brutally manipulate an association with Stephen Miller.
For example, Michael Edison Hayden writes:
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“Miller refers to President Calvin Coolidge multiple times in emails to Breitbart. Coolidge signed the Immigration Act of 1924. The legislation was based on eugenics and severely limited immigration from certain parts of the world into the United States. White nationalists lionize Coolidge, in part for his remarks condemning race mixing.
‘There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons,’ Coolidge wrote in a 1921 magazine article, as quoted on American Renaissance. ‘Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. … Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.’
In ‘Mein Kampf,’ Hitler portrayed the U.S. law as a potential model for the Nazis in Germany.”
Quite the buildup! Let’s examine what Stephen Miller actually writes about President Calvin Coolidge in his emails published towards the end of the same hit piece:
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Murch, Aug. 4, 2015, 6:22 p.m. ET: “Mark Levin just said there should be no immigration for several years. Not just cut the number down from the current 1 million green cards per year. For assimilation purposes.”
Miller, Aug. 4, 2015, 6:23 p.m. ET: “Like Coolidge did. Kellyanne Conway poll says that is exactly what most Americans want after 40 years of non-stop record arrivals.”
And this:
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Miller, Sept. 13, 2015, 7:53 p.m. ET: “this is a good chance to expose that ridiculous statue of liberty myth. Poem has nothing to do with it: [Link] Indeed, two decades after poem was added, Coolidge shut down immigration. No one said he was violating the Statue of Liberty’s purpose…
And finally, this one:
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Miller, April 28, 2015, 11:38 p.m. ET: Something tells me there is not a Calvin Coolidge exhibit.
Damning, isn’t it?
What you just read is one of the most obvious examples of sophistry; using information to deceive. The SPLC uses a charged history about President Calvin Coolidge, white nationalists, Hitler and the Nazis that is totally irrelevant in order to cause an emotional reaction in the reader. That way, the readers are less likely to use rationality and judgement when they finally look through the Stephen Miller emails themselves (which I encourage everyone to do).
The Southern Poverty Law Center has a sordid record of using it’s “hate group” watch list to equate innocuous people and organizations to groups like neo-Nazis. This horrendous practice has spurred events like a shooting at an Orthodox Christian public advocacy organization. A gunman, hellbent on committing a masacre, opened fired on employees at Family Research Council and planned on rubbing Chick-fil-A sandwiches on the corpses.
'omg you are questioning the despicable tactics, that makes you a white supremacist too'