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November 4, 2022
How Theodore Roosevelt Embarrassed an Anti-Semite While Protecting His Freedom of Speech
“The proper thing to do was to make him ridiculous.”
In 1892, Hermann Ahlwardt was elected to the German parliament on an explicitly anti-Semitic platform. Three years later he broke off from his party to found the “Anti-Semitic People’s Party.” Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer tell the story of his brief tour of United States in the same year, in which he was feted by the newly formed Anti-Semitic Society of America. At the time, Theodore Roosevelt was New York City’s police commissioner. Safier and Geberer cite the future president’s description of what followed:
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How Theodore Roosevelt Embarrassed an Anti-Semite While Protecting His Freedom of Speech
“The proper thing to do was to make him ridiculous.”