# Stephen Miller and cosmopolitan bias

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 7, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040 "2017-08-07T21:42:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 15\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/141 "2019-11-13T10:11:35Z")

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> [@Algher](#):
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> Coastal Elites, Cosmopolitan Bias, Ivory Tower Mentality, Limousine Liberals …

Just for fun, I ran these terms through Google Book’s Ngram Viewer.

Something I did not understand: Google reports  
‘Search for “cosmopolitan bias” yielded only one result.’  
but in fact Google reports several hits, e.g.  
As Goethe knew, there is a cosmopolitan bias in science which extends to the writing of its history. The great metropolitan centers of learning dominate the Story, a condition scarcely altered by the turn to local micro-histories.  
or, from an 1874 journal article titled “The New Trials of the Roman Church” (see [The New Trials of the Roman Church on JSTOR](https://www.jstor.org/stable/25109814?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents) )

And have we not in the long history and irrepressible vitality of Freemasonry another proof of the strength of the cosmopolitan bias in human nature ? Science, too, might seem to be one of those neutral grounds without turnpikes and …

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**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/142 "2019-11-13T13:22:14Z")

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It’s probably fine that a senior advisor to the president is an outspoken white supremacist, right? What’s the worst that could happen?

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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/143 "2019-11-13T15:38:11Z")

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> [@Lance\_Turbo](#):
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> You backed the wrong horse on this one fucknuggets.

Not if they actually want a white supremacist administration. Then they got what they want.

When Herr Miller gets fired and/or arrested and we take America back, then you’ll be right. 🙂

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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/144 "2019-11-13T15:48:31Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> Not if they actually want a white supremacist administration. Then they got what they want.
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> When Herr Miller gets fired and/or arrested and we take America back, then you’ll be right. 🙂

Exactly, the modern GOP is a white nationalist political movement. Its members are white nationalists, I don’t understand what people don’t get about that.

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**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/145 "2019-11-13T16:19:25Z")

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> [@D\_Anconia](#):
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> People are responsible for themselves, and their families. Not ALL OF HUMANITY. Tard.

And that was “Fuck You, I Got Mine,” by the Right Wing Tabernacle Choir. We’ll be back to playing the hits on Radio Free Oceania, but first a word from the fine folks at Phillip Morris.

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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/146 "2019-11-13T17:29:36Z")

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> [@Evil\_Economist](#):
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> I wonder if this will hurt Trump with his voters. He’s saying that the uneducated aren’t good enough for America–but the stupid and the uneducated make up the majority of his base. I guess the real benefit of being supported by idiots is that they don’t realize when you’ve insulted them, so maybe he’ll be OK.

As long as he feeds their hate and “sticks it to the libs”, they will follow him.

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**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/147 "2019-11-13T18:02:56Z")

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> [@Lance\_Turbo](#):
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> Maybe I should have included this…
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> [Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails](https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/12/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails)
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> In this, the first of what will be a series about those emails, Hatewatch exposes the racist source material that has influenced Miller’s visions of policy. That source material, as laid out in his emails to Breitbart, includes white nationalist websites, **a “white genocide”-themed novel in which Indian men rape white women** , xenophobic conspiracy theories and eugenics-era immigration laws that Adolf Hitler lauded in “Mein Kampf.”

What is it with right wingers and rape novels??? Scooter Libby, Bill O’Reilly, Lynn Cheney …

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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/148 "2019-11-13T20:00:17Z")

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> [@carrps](#):
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> What is it with right wingers and rape novels??? Scooter Libby, Bill O’Reilly, Lynn Cheney …

Wish fulfillment? (with them in the “white woman” role.)

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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/149 "2019-11-13T23:35:42Z")

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> [@carrps](#):
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> What is it with right wingers and rape novels??? Scooter Libby, Bill O’Reilly, Lynn Cheney …

Pretty much all white-nationalist-type fiction is chockablock with swarthy invaders Violating Our Wimminz. It’s a mandatory convention of the genre.

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/150 "2019-11-14T08:04:37Z")

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Yet they say people who complain about them are easily triggered. There’s a lot of Fe there.

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**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/151 "2019-11-14T16:02:29Z")

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Faux news is perturbed that AOC called that racist fucknut a white nationalist.

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**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/152 "2019-11-14T17:18:45Z")

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> [@bobot](#):
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> Faux news is perturbed that AOC called that racist fucknut a white nationalist.

Is there a more PC term she should have used instead?

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**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/153 "2019-11-14T17:24:32Z")

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Faux probably would have preferred “hero”.

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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/154 "2019-11-14T17:27:59Z")

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> [@PatriotX](#):
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> Is there a more PC term she should have used instead?

Miller is a genuine, _bona fide_ Nazi, so she could have called him that.

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040/155 "2019-11-14T17:41:58Z")

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> [@bobot](#):
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> Faux news is perturbed that AOC called that racist fucknut a white nationalist.

I mean geez, he’s only into RaHoWa fapfiction, what’s the big deal ?!

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