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This is eye-opening and terrifying. Thank you, Arnold.

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Yeah, the Klan helped the drys enact prohibition, and the drys helped the Klan to grow its power base.

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I did not know about the connection that the KKK had with enacting Prohibition!

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I was then shocked to see the Charlottesville rally of white supremacists chanting "Jews will not replace us". And now we see it again and again. We should clearly know who they support and who is supporting them.

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They Called Themselves the KKK, The Birth of an American Terrorist Group…. Should be in every Iowa high school library….

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Mar 3, 2024
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Because extremists must be called out— on both ends of the spectrum.

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I'm waiting.

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I...have published on the topic multiple times... What is at stake is people foaming at the mouth about "MAGA country" while much of what we see today is Islamic antisemitism.

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What we see and hear depends on our locale. In remote and rural places it’s not uncommon to hear slurs on many: Jews and “Arabs” and black, brown, beige, whatever skin toned people. The stereotypes are deep-seated and come from ignorance and hatred and intolerance. Surely we can agree on that.

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Grew up in rural Iowa..lived in Chicago, NYC, DC, and now Paris. Never in my childhood in Iowa did I hear the antisemitic trash I have heard the past few months. Moreover, I never feared for my safety like I do in France. Hint: I am not scared of "Nazis".

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