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It’s just a minority despot choosing to identify adherents of a particular religion as being the cause of all a nation’s problems. On Holocaust Day, at that. This is what TV Tropes calls “lampshading.”
That’s exactly the way it started in 1933….
Give us your rich, your tony elite, looking to buy luxury property. I lift my lamp beside the golden condos…
As I wrote in 2014:
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Our New Colossus
A gigantic, bronzed statue of a dame,
Gleaming limbs ’neath ’lectric sunlamp tanned;
Below yon giant lamppost, see her stand—
This brazen woman sings her song of flame.
She gestures, having turned from early fame
To spurn unshelter’d poor. Now her hand
Waves them off with heavy book of Rand;
Thro’ painted lashes seeks she fitter game.
“Keep your poor and tired trash,” calls she
With ruby’d lips, “Send me your rich, your white
Your lucky heirs, who scheme to live tax-free;
The wretched I refuse—my legal right!
Outsourcing, open-handed men for me—
Above my door I shine the scarlet light!”
Lalo Alcaraz
April 12, 2017
May 22, 2015
October 21, 2019
Kip W over 7 years ago
It’s just a minority despot choosing to identify adherents of a particular religion as being the cause of all a nation’s problems. On Holocaust Day, at that. This is what TV Tropes calls “lampshading.”
kurt.zwicky over 7 years ago
That’s exactly the way it started in 1933….
Space_cat over 7 years ago
Give us your rich, your tony elite, looking to buy luxury property. I lift my lamp beside the golden condos…
Kip W over 7 years ago
As I wrote in 2014:
.
Our New Colossus
A gigantic, bronzed statue of a dame,
Gleaming limbs ’neath ’lectric sunlamp tanned;
Below yon giant lamppost, see her stand—
This brazen woman sings her song of flame.
She gestures, having turned from early fame
To spurn unshelter’d poor. Now her hand
Waves them off with heavy book of Rand;
Thro’ painted lashes seeks she fitter game.
“Keep your poor and tired trash,” calls she
With ruby’d lips, “Send me your rich, your white
Your lucky heirs, who scheme to live tax-free;
The wretched I refuse—my legal right!
Outsourcing, open-handed men for me—
Above my door I shine the scarlet light!”