#BUT from the standpoint of the child not somebody claiming to make decisions in the name of the welfare of the child

[wind-rider]

Oh hey what the hell

Hey USA wtf are you doing down there

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

[candyclan]

Coming out letter to my mom. (FTM) At the start of my transition, I wanted to go by a name that started with an “A”because my birthname did. All the rest of it is basically the same.

THE TRUTH:

I didn’t scream “I am a boy” at my parents. Honestly, my mother (specifically) controlled a lot of what I did, who I hung out with, and what I wore as a child. I believe she has/had an idea about what she wanted out of a daughter since I was born, and really just lived through me. I think she eventually had to give me room to make my own decisions, later in life. I didn’t come out until I was 16, although I had spent 6 months prior to even coming out thinking about my gender identity. I was extremely sheltered. I want you guys to know that I didn’t know what being transgender was until I was a freshman in high school and met my best friend (who is STILL MY BEST FRIEND TODAY) who identified as Non-binary gender fluid. I had never really met someone AFAB that lived to be anything other than female. With that came the knowledge that sometimes, men don’t necessarily have to have penises and I can wear whatever I’m comfortable with. I used to be religious in middle school (raised Christian) but I never found god. It never made sense to me how so many people can put their faith in other people’s ideas of what god is (the Bible) but not listen when their real CHILD comes to them and tells them that they feel uncomfortable in their gender identity. I also came out as bisexual in middle school, after meeting a girl I had a fancy for. To which my mother sobbed and cried and asked how she had failed as a parent. I remember loving pink, it was my favorite color. Pink, purple, blue. My top 3. Now it’s blue, pink, purple but basically the same. I had a pink room, loved hello kitty, let my mom curl my hair with little curlers at night so I could wake up and be somebody different the next day. My brother played with carebears and my Barbie dolls more than I did as a child. I remember a toy gun and handcuffs. I was fairly experimental as a child, I did: Girl Scouts, swimming, piano, soccer, ballet, cheerleading, and more honestly. I always got “boy” toys at McDonald’s (I mean cmon they’re cooler) I just was kinda everywhere. I feel like that’s easier for someone AFAB to be. My brother was harassed by my family for liking girly things but I was never shown that I couldn’t like stereotypical “boy things” by extended family. My mother however in the line at McDonalds I could never forget, turned and looked at me (baseball cap backwards tank top and shorts)and said “So, what?” “Are you batting for the other team” implying that because of the clothes I liked to wear I would be a lesbian. My mother (like I said, kinda controlling and extremely narcissistic) when I was allowed to cut my hair super short for the first time I was 16. Afterwards she has said things like: “but you’re so pretty how could you have cut your hair” “you looked so nice with long hair” I never felt akin to femininity. I was actually VERY uncomfortable with it. I hated being the “weaker” gender. I never wanted my nails painted. It was torture. I acted like makeup and and nail polish was torture, the hairbrush was my enemy. I used to just put my hair up in a low ponytail every day as I got older. I knew she’d never let me cut it all off. Basically, other than wanting to grow up strong and tough and not liking to be treated like a female, I was female. There were parts of being female I didn’t really have a problem with, and honestly that’s why I didn’t come out for so long. I wasn’t in a house or raised by people I knew would accept anything other than me being their “little girl” I was a daddies girl. So between my lack of understanding of where my feelings towards my gender roles were coming from, being encouraged by my family to be girly, not being exposed to gender diversity (or anything queer), and my controlling mother, I remained in the dark about who I was.

TRIGGER WARNING:::(abuse)::::: I was never close with my mother, and actually hated her growing up. To this day she is the most judge mental, self-centered woman I know. My father was funny, charismatic, and lost his shit sometimes. I like to say, 90% of the time he was amazing. We made jokes and could literally finish each other’s sentences. But honestly my father, 10% of the time was abusive. Most of my abuse in my life was covert (narcissistic abuse from my mother) and verbal/emotional/barely physical abuse from my father. He’s 6”3’ 350 lbs and very loud and scary, especially to a young child. He punched a hole in my wall, he threw a remote at a wall and shattered it to pieces, he threatened to kill my dog with a baseball bat in front of me. Which I swear to god he would have done if I wasn’t holding my dog, protecting him. These moments were few and far between, but they were riddled with insults and almost always left me with less than I started with. My father did spank my brother and I, and one time he clapped my brother so well that he left a purple hand mark on his butt. My mother told my father she’d take us away if that happened again. My father never left marks. He never had to, he was so big and would just get up in my face and scream at me. He made me feel helpless. Because he was invading my space I felt physically threatened, and he never actually had to touch me and leave bruises because that threat was already implied by invading my space. I was so young, but I always knew my family wasn’t right. Finally at 16, I stood up to my father for the first time. I didn’t care if he was bigger than me, I didn’t care if I would lose, I was willing to fight for me. Anyway, long story short the police were called because we were screaming at each other in front of his apartment building. I’m not going to say I didn’t fuck up as a teenager, but I never deserved the pressure and the abuse he was dishing out and had dished out my whole life. I knew that. I cut him out of my life just after turning 16, by then I had been questioning my identity. It became easier after leaving my father to fall into who I was. My father is FAIRLY religious and my mother claims to be but she never talks about god, she never prays, and now that my father and her are divorced I don’t think she’s been inside a church since. Losing my father was a lot, despite his abuse he and I were really close and had really similar personalities. The reality of abuse isn’t “well, now I see them as an abuser so now none of that good stuff is left it’s all tainted” I had to struggle with losing someone very important in my life at a young age, for myself.

Arguments against me being trans:

My family has been a bit divided in responding to me coming out. By now, it’s been about 4 years.

My mother and her side of the family are in denial. They don’t understand how I can’t be a “lesbian that just likes boy things”. They don’t use my name or pronouns.

My father, what little communication I have with him now, is bewildered. He and I had a discussion this past Christmas where I brought up what his abuse did to me mentally and he apologized but then tried to say “well what about your part in all of this” and said that I was hanging out with crazy depressed people, cutting myself, doing drugs, (I was smoking weed and I’ve tried acid like once piss off) and was sneaking out. Yeah. I did do all of that BUT GUESS WHAT. IM 20. I go where I wanna go. I fuck who I wanna fuck. I smoke what I want and guess what? It’s not any different from when I was 16 except now I don’t have parents up my ass telling me what to do. His argument basically was that I need to own up to what I did too and that fucking angered me. You don’t apologize and then go “well what about you” that’s not an apology. That’s deflection and honestly I don’t think I need to apologize because my parents were super controlling. I was just trying to do what I wanted and they didn’t like it. He and I have talked about me being trans and he pretty much thinks I’m certifiable. Doesn’t use my name or pronouns.

My brother: Ethan, my brother and I have always been close. He’s 17 now, and he had a different reaction to me being trans. Of all of my family he was the most receptive to my pleas of gender dysphoria and he suffers with anxiety so he gets stuff. But alas, after asking him if he’d call me by my name and pronouns (after 4 years of being out) he thinks that I am the one that has an issue with society. I told him I was starting T soon and he said: “Hrt won’t lessen all the things that come with being transgender. If you feel like doing hormones is the best for you then do it, but from a logical standpoint I think there just needs to be more thickening of skin” he claimes that if I try hard enough I could be fine living as female. Doesn’t use my name or pronouns.

None of my family supports me. None of my family understands. And none of them ever will. I have been out for four fucking years. I can’t tell you how frustrating family rejection can be. I have cried so much at the idea of not having a supportive family. I feel like I was ripped away from a beautiful life somewhere and thrust into this mess.

Honestly though, it doesn’t matter, the world keeps spinning and I keep finding people who love and accept me for who I truly am. I have made peace with my family’s lack of acceptance. It’s made me stronger and more compassionate towards others. Made me want to be better than them. I am actually going to start hormones soon, and on top of other fears I have, will be cutting my family out of my life. I can’t be 25 with a full beard and getting misgendered by my family. I can’t do it. They may feel like I’m going too far, that I don’t have to do this, but I do. I’m not doing this because I didn’t get too much attention as a kid or my mom favored my brother over me, I’m not doing this because it’s cool, I’m not doing this because I’m bored, I’m not doing this because I hate myself or anyone else. This is AFFIRMATION. Sometimes, cutting people who can’t see you for who your really are out of your life is affirming too.

Guys, girls, people, keep your head up. Things get better, I know. I thought life was never going to get better so I know that’s what it can feel like. But it does. Never ever let someone control your life or who you are. You’re beautiful/handsome/amazing! You deserve to be comfortable in your own skin and to love who you are. I am getting there, we all are.

Love,

Tanner M.

[benperorsolo]

Can we really call SW a fairy tale? Because the modern understanding of the fairy tale is very much shaped by Disney and that’s just in the 20th and 21st century. Older fairy tales tended to be a lot darker if I’m not mistaken, and SW always seemed to draw on older things like myths and heroic journeys. I’ve listened to the commentary where JJ said “if” SW was a fairy tale, but I think he was making a comparative point about how it wasn’t a fairy tale. I don’t know I’m probably wrong

Yes, we can call it a fairy tale. George Lucas has called it a fairy tale multiple times.

“Rather than do some angry, socially relevant film…I realized there was another relevance that is even more important — dreams and fantasies, getting children to believe there is more to life than garbage and killing…Once I got into STAR WARS, it struck me that we had lost all that — a whole generation was growing up without fairy tales. You just don’t get them anymore, and that’s the best stuff in the world — adventures in far-off lands. It’s fun.” (x)

“I realized a more destructive element in the culture would be a whole generation of kids growing up without that thing, because I had also done a study on, I don’t know what you call it, I call it the fairy tale or the myth. It is a children’s story in history and you go back to the Odyssey or the stories that are told for the kid in all of us.” (x)

“Well, I had a real problem because I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, “You know there’s no sound in outer space”. I just wanted to forget science. That would take care of itself. Stanley Kubrick made the ultimate science-fiction movie and it is going to be very hard for somebody to come along and make a better movie, as far as I’m concerned. I didn’t want to make a 2001, I wanted to make a space fantasy that was more in the genre of Edgar Rice Burroughs; that whole other end of space fantasy that was there before science took it over in the Fifties. Once the atomic bomb came, everybody got into monsters and science and what would happen with this and what would happen with that. I think speculative fiction is very valid but they forgot the fairy tales and the dragons and Tolkien and all the real heroes.” (x)

“Indeed, it was his fascination with children and his penchant for looking at the world as if he were still a child himself that led him off on his whole “Star Wars” odyssey. And it was in no small measure because he had young children of his own that he continued trying to see the world through youthful eyes. It was from this impulse that what he calls his “modern day fairy tale” – formed out of a transnational pantheon of mythological figures that became the serial morality play known as “Star Wars” – continued to develop.” (x)

Additionally, George talks often about how Star Wars is not meant to be realistic but rather irrationally romantic and idealistic:

“So I made my bid to try to make everything a little more romantic. Jesus, I’m hoping that if the film accomplishes anything, it takes some ten-year-old kid and turns him on so much to outer space and the possibilities of romance and adventure. Not so much an influence that would create more Wernher von Brauns or Einsteins, but just infusing them into serious exploration of outer space and convincing them that it’s important. Not for any rational reason, but a totally irrational and romantic reason.” (x)

“You can’t, and how do you explain a Wookiee to an audience, and how do you get the tone of the film right, so it’s not a silly child’s film, so it’s not playing down to people, but it is still an entertaining movie and doesn’t have a lot of violence and sex and hip new stuff? So it still has a vision to it, a sort of wholesome, honest vision about the way you want the world to be.” (x)

“I wanted to make a kids’ film that would strengthen contemporary mythology and introduce a kind of basic morality. Everybody’s forgetting to tell the kids, ‘Hey, this is right and this is wrong.‘” (x)

So.

Yes. Star Wars is a fairy tale. Period.

Not only is it a fairy tale, but it is a fairy tale that does not even pretend to be real science fiction. George expresses total disinterest in making Star Wars anything resembling ‘hard’ sci fi, as well as a total disdain for realism. Star Wars, as George says, is planetary romance in the vein of Edgar Rice Burroughs (John Carter, etc) whose purpose is to uplift children (yes— Star Wars is for children) with a modern fairy tale that touches them the same way campy pulp like Flash Gordon touched George Lucas. Star Wars is supposed to inspire children and the child in all of us to aspire to a better, more moral way of life. It’s supposed to make us believe, as George says, that ‘there is more to life than garbage and killing’; to remind us ‘of the possibilities of romance and adventure.’ Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what you think the definition of a fairy tale is. This is what George means when he talks about Star Wars being a fairy tale. Pulp, romance, and idealism taking people to the stars. There are so many quotes by George detailing this from one article that I quoted alone that I couldn’t fit them all. To claim that Star Wars ever was about realism or some sort of gritty dark mythos in outer space is just ignorant. 

Additionally, I think you are making a false dichotomy between myths and fairy tales. They are the same thing. Fairy tales are an iteration of mythology. Older mythology is not magically darker than current mythology— the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen are not the only people who ever wrote fairy tales, and frankly speaking, they are early modern authors from a historical standpoint. To set up the Hero’s Journey in contrast with the optimism of modern fairy tales is also just…factually not correct. The basic steps of the Hero’s Journey are in Campbell’s own words:

“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.” (x)

The structure of the Hero’s Journey is one of leaving the ordinary world, encountering trials and suffering, reaching the Abyss (this is Campbell’s term) or lowest point, overcoming this abyss, and then returning to the ordinary world full of wisdom to share with your fellow man. To suggest that this journey is a) separate or different than the structure of the fairy tale or b) more ‘realistic’ or ‘darker’ than a fairy tale is incorrect. Fairy tales are examples of the Hero’s Journey, and the Hero’s Journey basically outlines a happy ending: the hero overcomes his demons and returns victorious back to his home to share what he has learned with others.

Lastly, I don’t agree with your interpretation of JJ’s commentary quote. The quote is:

“For example, we looked at it like a Western, or a fairy tale…You’re probably going to have a castle and a prince and a princess, if you’re looking at a fairy tale. We wanted to have these fundamental, not cosmetic, but prerequisite elements, these locations in which we can set our new story and our new characters…But when his mask comes off, you see Adam Driver, and he just looks like a sort of prince.“ (x)

So, not to be rude, but I think you’re just not interpreting this quote correctly. JJ didn’t say, ‘If this were a fairy tale x would happen, but it’s actually y so z will happen.” He explicitly said —like literally, I have it bolded—:

“We looked at it like a Western, or a fairy tale.”

JJ is explicitly saying that they viewed TFA as a fairy tale, and because they viewed it as a fairy tale, they included elements like castles, and princes, and princesses, and then goes on to say Adam Driver is made up to look like a prince. He’s saying: if Star Wars is a fairy tale, then it must have these elements, and then goes on to explain how it does, as a direct consequence of intentionally shaping it to be one.

[jeovanaandannaluiza]

SDG: Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Gender equality is goal number 5 of The Sustainable Development Goals. This goal determines the confront of all discrimination, violence, and harmful practices against all women and girls everywhere. It also, among other things, implies the necessity of guaranteeing women’s participation in all areas of decision-making and women's access to economic resources. In short, this goal addresses the difficulty faced by women and is one step of 17 to accomplish the propositions established by the SDGs to confront the global challenges we face.

To have a better knowledge of what are the 17 goals, watch the video below:

First of all, the advancement in gender equality is important because gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but the improvement of it also has consequences for other aspects. First, the progress of gender equality can help the improvement of a large number of businesses. It happens because when you have a more diverse group there are more points of view, therefore, more chance of innovation, so it is beneficial not only for women but for the company too. Second, when women have reproductive choices, they can offer better opportunities to their children since they can choose if they have the time, resources, and mental health to take care of a child. Finally, it reduces poverty considering that women are more vulnerable to this situation because of the insufficiency of education and job opportunities given to them. This shows that it is urgent to focus on gender equality, but these are just three arguments of many that can illustrate the significance of this topic.

Furthermore, besides the progress made in human history, there are still many challenges to confront to truly achieve gender equality in the world. For instance, UNICEF communicated in a report released in 2017 that girls are more vulnerable to sexual and gender-based violence and 2.5 times more likely to be out of school than boys in countries affected by conflict. Similarly, 2016 ILO stats reveal that 99% of sex trafficking victims are women and girls. Not to mention that there are still girls being forced into early marriage and suffering female genital mutilation. New data can exhibit a decrease in girls being forced into earlier marriage and information about the improvement of other women's rights, however, there is still a necessity to overthrow more barriers to make all women live better indeed.

As the previous discussions demonstrate, the conversation about gender equality envelops many subtopics. Women all over the world face a large number of conflicts based on gender in which the solutions to them depend on a cultural perspective. Problems like women suffering female genital mutilation are more common to a country than another whereas sex trafficking can be a problem in other territories. In this case, to confront the dilemma of gender inequality is fundamental having organizations like the UN women that are dedicated to improving women's lives from a worldwide standpoint. This kind of organization helps to focus on a large number of difficulties faced by women and make a plan to help to confront them. On the whole, gender equality is a complex topic and must be discussed largely to make better decisions for each country. 

For the reason demonstrated above, it is wiser to discuss gender equality topic by topic to get a better view of the theme of the discussion. In this text, we going to focus on violence, sexual harassment (a specific type of violence), and politic.

Violence

Gender-based violence is one of the biggest challenges that it is necessary to confront to achieve gender equality. It happens all over the world, and it can affect women in physical, sexual, emotional, economic, and psychological aspects. For instance, when women suffer domestic violence, it frequently can include a situation where they are financially dependent on their partner, and they can suffer from threats of physical harm, or even the act of physical violence itself.  This example shows that the problems faced by women can happen concurrently and include a variety of elements that take away women's power. It is also important to say that this is a dangerous situation because it can end in femicide. In brief, violence makes impactful harm in women’s and girls’ lives and it is necessary to address and confront this situation.

As a result of the impact of violence on women's and girls' lives, society, in general, must take some actions. To finish harmful actions toward women and girls, it is important to raise awareness about the topic because when a person has knowledge and information about a subject, it is more likely that they change their behavior than when they only have a negative reaction from other people. Encourage boys and girls to speak up about violence is also beneficial when accompanied by listening to and believing in the victims. For this reason, it is important to promote discussion in the school, workplace, and community.  There are a lot of efforts that can be made to make women’s lives a secure environment, however, it is through information and discussion that changes can happen.

Pandemic 

In times such as the 2020s COVID-19 pandemic, it is even more important to stay vigilant about women's rights. This statement is based on the fact that reports of domestic violence increased during the time of isolation in many countries, and for this reason, it is even more important to take care of the security of women and girls everywhere. So, to do such a thing as confront domestic violence during times like this, first, is essential to listen to the victim, as said before, and promote a safe space for them to speak up. Second, services directed for gender-based violence must be available when women need them even in difficult times, and for this, laws reinforcing the confront of domestic violence in the pandemic, like the one made in Brazil in 2020 in which is defined as urgent the procedural deadlines that helps women in a violent situation, are welcome and important. Third, the population, in general, needs to learn the signs of abuse to report it since it is harder for the victim to do it. In brief, governments should and must take action to change the situation, but the population has a big part on change these situations too, and it can be made by listening or by reporting.

Sexual Harassment

Sexual Harassment is a type of harassment involving gender offense. It occurs when a person offends another because of that person’s sex, and it can include verbal and physical harassment, sexual advances, and a hostile work environment. Although both genders can be victims of these offenses, most of the time these victims are women.  It happens because of the shortage of women in leadership positions and the sexist system that objectifies women. As it is possible to see, it is a specific type of violence based on gender and has distinctive consequences.

One of these consequences is that harassment can end the self-confidence of the victim. Gretchen Carlson, in “How we can end sexual harassment at work”, said that sexual harassment "It is not about sex. It is about power and what somebody does to you to try and take away your power" Gretchen Carlson is a famous American broadcast journalist who shocked worldwide by her claiming sexual harassment against the CEO Roger Ailes. Similarly, recently, one case of sexual harassment also happened on a major television network in Brazil. The case involved the comedian Dani Calabresa and the actor and writer Márcio Melhem, and the comedian said on her social media, in Portuguese, but translated for this text, that "Everything is very difficult, fear and shame, but we have to fight for respect". Their statement shows that sexual harassment makes women more fragile in the workplace. On the whole, the experience of these women is demonstrating that women experience in their job is hurt by the experience of sexual harassment.

Here you can watch the TED talk “How we can end sexual harassment at work”:

In addition to that, the BBC brazil listed 11 reasons why women don’t report sexual harassment. One of those reasons is the fact that the normalization of sexual harassment induces women to not see that she suffered harassment, and more than that, in some cases they feel guilty about the harassment. Another reason is that women feel afraid of people judging them with phrases like “she can just leave”, “she made up”, or “she wants to be famous”. The word of the victim is, most of the time, considered fake. After all, in an environment where sexual harassment is normalized and the victim discredit, it is natural that report sexual harassment is discouraged.

However, there are some ways to prevent sexual harassment. Firstly, as Gretchen Carlson said in her TED TALK, women must have courage. Women must have the bravery to denounce the aggressor because although it can be hard for victims to relive that experience, women have to report this violence to prevent the cycle of harassment from continuing. Equally important is changing the law. The law must act to protect the victim and not the infractor. And in this way, recently there have been advances in the CLT, and the principal advance was the fact that the norma is now speaking more clearly about "Dano Extrapatrimonial", that refers to an amount of money that is intended to compensate a person who has her honor or intimacy offended. Finally, the best way to combat harassment is prevention. In our society, misogyny is a cultural phenomenon, so we must end this culture by teaching the next generation that both genders are equal.

Politics 

Despite most of the Brazilian population is composed of women, the women's presence in politics is not representative of that. In a ranking of 2018 in which 190 countries were analyzed, Brazil occupied the 152° position of women presence in parliaments, and it is a similar situation when we talk about mayor positions, in this year, only one woman was elected for mayor in a Brazilian capital.  This situation happens even though Brazil has an electoral law that establishes a quota of at least 30% of female candidature for each party or coalition. This demonstrates that it is a long journey until a woman can be represented in politics as much as a man is. 

After all, a  law does not guarantee that parties support female candidature. For instance, in this election, more than 5000 applications didn't receive votes, and women represented 65% of those total. In other words, more than 3.250 women didn't receive their own vote. It means that which candidatures can be investigated as "stooge", by way of explanation, women could have been contracted by parties to follow the electoral quota and they could use the money for other campaigns. An example of this is a case reported involving the ex-party of the current President of Brazil and the minister of tourism. It is a crime largely discussed in the media, but the discussion did not bring this situation to an end, and it still hurt women’s presence in politics until now. 

Although the laws are important they do not guarantee that women enter politics, it is fundamental to take other actions. Since there will always exist parties trying against the quota law, it is essential to continue investigating and punishing the person guilty of these infractions. On top of that, the most effective solution is conscious voting. Women should vote for other women principally those committed to women's agenda and gender equality. Investigation and representation to guarantee that all group's agenda is heard and debated. 

Conclusion

On the whole, facing gender inequality is a complex confront to make and must be studied, discussed, and faced by the global community. It is for all those reasons that the establishment of goal number 5  in The Sustainable Development Goals is a big step to transforming women's way of life. The call for action of the SDGs is a possible way to start the progress in gender equality, and more than that, it is a way not to permit a deterioration of women's rights.

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Lara Trump says Merkel welcoming refugees 'was the downfall of Germany' and Twitter has thoughts

Lara Trump called Chancellor Angela Merkel's 2015 immigration policy "the downfall of Germany" in a Fox Business interview. (Photo: Getty Images)

Lara Trump said Chancellor Angela Merkel’s immigration policy “was the downfall of Germany,” which was followed by a sarcastic history drill on Twitter.

On Thursday, in discussion with Fox Business host Stuart Varney, President Trump’s daughter-in-law equated Tuesday’s migrant caravan, traveling from Mexico to the U.S. border on a train dubbed “The Beast,” to Merkel’s 2015 allowance of more than 1 million refugees into Germany, as a “humanitarian” gesture.

“It was the downfall of Germany,” Lara told Varney, after he initiated the comparison. “It was one of the worst things that ever happened to Germany. This President knows that, he’s trying to prevent that from happening here, but Congress has got to get their act together and do the right thing for the American people.”

On Fox Business, Trump campaign official Lara Trump claims that "the downfall of Germany" was ..... [squints at notes] .... Merkel's decision to allow refugees into the country. "It was one of the worst things that ever happened to Germany," she adds. pic.twitter.com/wm4OerUtFP

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 25, 2019

According to Politico, two years after Merkel permitted refugees fleeing war in Middle Eastern countries, she told the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, “It was an extraordinary situation and I made my decision based on what I thought was right from a political and humanitarian standpoint.”

Conceding that the German border could have been tightened, Merkel also said, “I’d make all the important decisions of 2015 the same way again.”

Twitter responded to Lara, the president's campaign adviser.

“Um, I can think of something worse than happened in Germany,” tweeted someone, joining others who quoted the Holocaust and Hitler’s reign.

Um I can think of something worse that happened in Germany…

— Howard (@HowardA_Esq) April 25, 2019

Ummm... did she forget about the Holocaust? (It’s also ironic bc they were sheltering refugees, the EXACT OPPOSITE of the worst thing that Germany has ever done) https://t.co/AFzC27iDzH

— Alex Milne (@AlexMilne07) April 25, 2019

Would somebody send #LaraTrump a ticket to the #AnneFrankHouse ...with a note that it’s not a spa

— TsuNami - For The People (@ImHereForTsu) April 25, 2019

The ignorance is astounding

— avemaria412 (@avemaria412) April 25, 2019

About 6 million dead Jews would strongly disagree https://t.co/KsKea6kp5m

— Josh Schwerin (@JoshSchwerin) April 25, 2019

The ignorance and bigotry is on display for all to see. Read a history book Lara.

— Merritt Kelly (@MerrittKelly1) April 25, 2019

See WW1 or WW2

— Jeff Mustonen📎 (@UWMoose) April 25, 2019

Not Hitler. Not Nazis. Not concentration camps. Not millions of dead Jews. According to Lara Trump, “Merkel admitting migrants into the country is one of the worst things that ever happened to Germany.” https://t.co/zmDLVZecHi

— Hayden Black (@haydenblack) April 25, 2019

It really is something that people regularly invite Lara Trump on television to discuss world history and global politics ... https://t.co/83s0HF6WVh

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) April 25, 2019

Lara, who is expecting her second child with husband and first son Eric Trump, earned tepid feedback when their baby news broke. Among the social media remarks was a nod to the president’s hardline immigration practices: “We’re full.”

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