This is an activity which must engage our attention and it is well to know with what forces we will have to cope. Tom Paine. whose pen proved mightier than any sword during the American Revolution. wrote at that time. "Prejudice. like a spider. makes everywhere its home and lives where there seems nothing to live on." We must be realistic. We must face the fact that a virulent antialienism and antiSemitism exists in this country. that there is a conspiracy against the foreign born. against the Negroes. because of their color. that professional "antis." like the spiders. are weaving their webs for the unwary and unsuspecting. especially amongst the lowly foreign born. and if a major depression is permitted to develop in the United States they will have a "field day." They are using the Fascist technique so ably demonstrated by Hitler and his hoodlums and are undertaking to turn against the Jews. Negroes. dagoes. all aliens seeking refuge here and other minorities. the nationalistic prejudices and resentments smoldering beneath the surface due to the chaotic events abroad. Some of them weep profuse. crocodile tears over disorganized Europe and in the next breath reiterate the charges that the Jews are solely responsible for the socalled spread of communism. To be a Jew. they would like you to believe. is to be. ips>factor. a Communist. They would turn Americans against all the foreign born. As a result. hundreds of thousands of Americans labor under the misapprehension that most Russians are Jews. There is no refuting these bigots.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that all foreign born are victims of a conspiracy and are being targeted by anti-alien groups.