They believe (often without reading it) that the poem - speaks of America’s obligation Posted: Nov 28th, 2020 - 7:45 am In Reply to: How the Left Gets the Statue of Liberty Poem Wrong - No, it's not a mandate to wreck America
to the world.
Its point was not that America was obligated to take in “wretched refuse”, but that the people who were considered “wretched refuse” by the ruling classes of Europe, had made America into a great nation. The "wretched refuse" is Europe's view of the waves of migration by English tenant farmers, Scottish and Irish laborers, German and Jewish refugees, Italian workers, and many others considered of no worth in their home ports. Because Europe considered its people "wretched refuse" and the other unflattering descriptors, its nations lacked the liberty that America had.
HERE, HERE! They treat the poem on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty the same way they treat In Flanders Fields. By refusing to recite the final part of Flanders they turn it into an anti-war poem when it is anything but.
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