Quote:Anchor, was Jimmy Carter a racist when he blocked immigration from Iran? Or was he protecting America from a known enemy?

Maybe not racist, but bigoted? It was a political move based on the hostage crises that resulted from the revolution in Iran.


It was stupid then, and its stupid now... not to mention (arguably) unconstitutional.


But you also do see the difference from excluding access from one nation versus excluding access of all Muslims, right? I mean that's a big difference.


On a side note, during the 70s and 80s of cold war, we didn't exclude all ussr persons from entering the usa. The Soviets were to be feared and despised as much as Muslims are today, yet there was no blanket ban on all of them--at least from my quick Google check.

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