Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990031714

West Germany. the President persisted in his wrongheaded decision to visit the German military cemetery at Bitburg that contains the graves of at least 49 Waffen SS members. the epitome of evil in the criminal madness that was the Third Reich. The President compounded this moral lapse in attempting to draw a historical analogy with evil in the contcmporary world when he said: Today. freedomloving people around the world must say: I am a Berliner. I am a Jew In a world still threatened by antisemitism. I am an Afghan. and I am a prisoner of the Gulag. I am a refugee in.a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am a Laotian. a Cambodian. a Cuban. and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I. too. am a potential victim of totalitarianism.
Keywords matched
refugee

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Afghans Vietnamese Laotians Cambodians Cubans Miskito Indians
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
80%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
Unknown
Party
Chamber
State
Gender
Date
1985-05-08
Speech ID
990031714
Paragraph
#0
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