With Open Gates
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With Open Gates: The Forced Collective Suicide of European Nations, is a 2015 anti-immigration video released during the European migrant crisis. The video lasts for 19 and a half minutes.{{cite book |last1=Tzioumakis |first1=Yannis |last2=Molloy |first2=Claire |title=The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317392460 |page=137 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0eTDAAAQBAJ&q=%22%E2%80%9CWith+Open+Gates%3A+The+Forced+Collective+Suicide+of+European+Nations%E2%80%9D&pg=PA137 |accessdate=5 November 2018 |archive-date=13 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413042742/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0eTDAAAQBAJ&q=%22%E2%80%9CWith+Open+Gates%3A+The+Forced+Collective+Suicide+of+European+Nations%E2%80%9D&pg=PA137 |url-status=live }}
The video focuses on the threat posed by mass migration. It was condemned by Vice Media as anti-migrant and counterfactual.{{cite news |last1=Roose |first1=Kevin |last2=Winston |first2=Ali |title=Far-Right Internet Groups Listen for Trump's Approval, and Often Hear It |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/politics/far-right-internet-trump.html |accessdate=5 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=4 November 2018 |archive-date=4 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104223529/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/politics/far-right-internet-trump.html |url-status=live }}
History
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the video originated on in a discussion forum on 8chan, in a subforum entitled "Politically Incorrect", where it was created by a group of users led by the user "Gex." It was featured on websites including Breitbart News. The number of viewings surged in the wake of the November 2015 Paris attacks.
The video was composed of footage from news reports and interviews, many of which Vice Media claimed as "out of context" for either showing migrant and refugee violence prior to 2015 or happening in a different European country than claimed. It had over 2 million views when it was removed by YouTube following allegations of copyright infringement; it quickly reappeared on other social media sites.{{cite news |last1=Pascual |first1=Federico |title=Europe opens doors to migrants |publisher=Filipino Reporter |date=20 November 2015|id={{ProQuest|1736637146}} }}
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2020 shared the video on Facebook in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/congress/marjorie-taylor-greene-shared-anti-muslim-video-portrays-jewish-people-trying-destroy|title=Marjorie Taylor Greene shared an anti-Muslim video that portrays Jewish people as trying to destroy Europe through immigration|work=Media Matters for America|first=Eric|last=Hananoki|date=August 26, 2020|accessdate=January 28, 2021|archive-date=January 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126235257/https://www.mediamatters.org/congress/marjorie-taylor-greene-shared-anti-muslim-video-portrays-jewish-people-trying-destroy|url-status=live}}
Reception
Vice Media described the video as "a racist propaganda film."{{cite news |last1=Kleinfeld |first1=Philip |title=Calling Bullshit on the Anti-Refugee Video Taking the Internet By Storm |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/with-open-gates-the-forced-collective-suicide-of-european-nations-debunked-938/ |access-date=5 November 2018 |work=Vice |date=27 November 2015 |archive-date=6 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106004907/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppx4kg/with-open-gates-the-forced-collective-suicide-of-european-nations-debunked-938 |url-status=live }} The Anti-Defamation League called it "a virulently anti-refugee propaganda video".{{cite news |last1=Mayo |first1=Marilyn |title="With Open Gates": Racist Anti-Refugee Video Goes Viral |url=https://www.adl.org/blog/with-open-gates-racist-anti-refugee-video-goes-viral |accessdate=5 November 2018 |publisher=Anti-Defamation League |date=13 November 2015 |archive-date=23 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623061452/https://www.adl.org/blog/with-open-gates-racist-anti-refugee-video-goes-viral |url-status=dead }} Steve Deace wrote a column about the video in The Washington Times, saying that the video shows what could be at stake in America, “if we continue to let our own cultural heritage bleed out.”.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|32084780}}
- [https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dj507 With Open Gates The forced collective suicide of European nations] on Dailymotion
- [https://www.vice.com/en/article/with-open-gates-the-forced-collective-suicide-of-european-nations-debunked-938/ Calling Bullshit on the Anti-Refugee Video Taking the Internet By Storm] on Vice
Category:European migrant crisis
Category:Anti-immigration politics in Europe