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How White House advisor Stephen Miller went from pestering Hispanic students to designing Trump's immigration policy
Miller only returned Islas' phone calls at the end of the summer, to coldly explain the reason for his estrangement. I can't be your friend any more because you are Latino, Islas remembers him saying.
Islas recalled that Miller mentioned other reasons, which he considered childish. But that was his first sign of the change Miller would undergo when he was 14 years old: a political radicalization that defines his life even now as a senior White House adviser with direct access to President Donald Trump.
Miller, now 31, and Stephen Bannon, former executive director of the populist Breitbart website, have been described as the main architects of Trump's immigration policies.
Several reports identified Miller as the brains behind the controversial executive order that temporarily banned people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. With Bannon, he also wrote Trump's aggressively nationalist inauguration speech and in July wrote a draft of Trump's acceptance speech to the Republican presidential nominating convention.
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Early on, Miller began to write opinion columns in conservative blogs, the local press and the high school's own newspaper, The Samohi. He also contributed at times to the national radio show of Larry Elder, a conservative African American, and once invited him to speak at the school.
Displaying his hostility toward minorities, Miller complained to school administrators about announcements in Spanish and festivals that celebrated diversity.
In his third year at the school, the 16-year-old Miller wrote a letter to The Lookout, a local publication, about his negative impression of Hispanic students and the use of Spanish in the United States.
When I entered Santa Monica High School in ninth grade, I noticed a number of students lacked basic English skills. There are usually very few, if any, Hispanic students in my honors classes, despite the large number of Hispanic students that attend our school, Miller wrote.
Even so, pursuant to district policy, all announcements are written in both Spanish and English. By providing a crutch now, we are preventing Spanish speakers from standing on their own, he added. As politically correct as this may be, it demeans the immigrant population as incompetent, and makes a mockery of the American ideal of personal accomplishment."
In that article, Miller also complained about his school's celebration of Cinco de Mayo, the existence of a gay club and a visit by a Muslim leader.
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HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Goebbels in a minute. I understand he is Jewish, but I think he hates Muslims and non-white immigrants with the same depth that the Nazis hated Jews. His authoritarian comment on Sunday may be the scariest thing I have heard yet.
Also, has anyone noticed he looks like a young Roy Cohen?
world wide wally
(21,739 posts)good lesson for our kids....or anyone else.
Ask yourself what our Founding Fathers would think of this. Then ask the same question of any Trump supporters you might speak to.
riversedge
(70,085 posts)His hatred started early.
"Miller also complained about his school's celebration of Cinco de Mayo, the existence of a gay club and a visit by a Muslim leader."
CanonRay
(14,084 posts)What a creep.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Caliman73
(11,725 posts)Why do you think that the military primarily wants 18 year old soldiers? Peak physical shape, poor judgement, easy to shape. At 14 you have some intelligence and education under your belt, but your assessment of your knowledge and experience is far greater than your actual knowledge and experience. In other words, 14 year old kids tend to think they know everything and they do not know what they do not know. They are easy to flood with a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobic, and fascist information and they will drink it up, especially if it comes along with a social group of like minded people. Think about the age that most boys read Atlas Shrugged or Fountainhead.
Most kids grow out of the know it all "asshole" phase. Miller did not, which is why he fits right in with Trump and his band of "Lost Boys".
Docreed2003
(16,850 posts)His views on "lack of Hispanic honors students" and his treatment of his "friend" tell you that this is not a new look for him. He's a bigot and racist and will never change his views, even when he cloaks them under the veil of national security. Such a dispicable human being.
d_r
(6,907 posts)I thought something like "What a waste, this guy had the opportunity to grow up in Santa Monica and spent it being a racist nerd" but then I thought something like "wow, this guy's parents had to be really awful to do that sort of job on him."
Caliman73
(11,725 posts)They may merely have been negligent. Focused on their own pursuits. They may have provided him with material comforts and just left him to be about his own business.
Parents do not have to be actively abusive to have their kids turn out to be jerks. It can also be accomplished quite easily by not being available, not setting limits, and allowing or making their child develop their own ethics because they are not actively engaged in the child's life.
d_r
(6,907 posts)negligence and permissiveness can make some rotten kids, but I think it takes authoritarians to make an authoritarian, just imho though.