That’s understandable. I had a mental block for a while because I was imagining concentration camps. Not that the US is above camps. It just didn’t click for me. Then someone pointed out that the US has a deeper history of vigilante violence being excused by the law. The whole “it’s now legal to run over protesters with your car” laws popped into mind and it makes a lot more sense to me.
The proud boys and the various right wing militias are already acting as the militant wing of the Republican Party in some areas. Many states are quickly approaching the point of making it illegal to be visibly trans in public. Police continue to do extrajudicial killings every day or two, but the media rarely covers them anymore. It’s suddenly acceptable for sitting senators to discuss the reinstatement of racial segregation by the courts. Slave patrols originally formed in response to non-slave states refusing to dedicate resources to returning escaped slaves and the Democrats response to red states rolling back the clocks by 100 years is “lol just move :4Head:” and hardening rights within the borders of blue states, which will inevitably lead back to a constitutional crisis. There are half a dozen right wing groups working towards calling a constitutional convention who have made astounding progress over the last couple years.
It all adds up and I see pogroms in the next few years and mass graves within 10 if things continue as-is. They’re coming for contraception access. They’re coming for racial integration. They’re coming for the 14th amendment and for gay marriage and for gender protections and for expanded suffrage. They’re coming for social security. They’re coming for Medicaid. They’re coming for it all.
We have concentration camps for migrant workers and refugees crossing the border, and the US Prison System is basically an internal camp system. The Nazis didn't start out with extermination camps. They worked towards it incrementally for years.
For sure. I was just having trouble seeing how the immediate future tied into that build up on an intuitive level. It seemed like an awful present disjoint from an awful future. Seeing the continuity is making me feel like I’m finally feeling a proportionate amount of urgency.
The Holocaust wasnt just camps. It was also as Nazis going across Eastern Europe just murdering people. Fascists everywhere have had death squads just do murder of their enemies.
That’s understandable. I had a mental block for a while because I was imagining concentration camps. Not that the US is above camps. It just didn’t click for me. Then someone pointed out that the US has a deeper history of vigilante violence being excused by the law. The whole “it’s now legal to run over protesters with your car” laws popped into mind and it makes a lot more sense to me.
The proud boys and the various right wing militias are already acting as the militant wing of the Republican Party in some areas. Many states are quickly approaching the point of making it illegal to be visibly trans in public. Police continue to do extrajudicial killings every day or two, but the media rarely covers them anymore. It’s suddenly acceptable for sitting senators to discuss the reinstatement of racial segregation by the courts. Slave patrols originally formed in response to non-slave states refusing to dedicate resources to returning escaped slaves and the Democrats response to red states rolling back the clocks by 100 years is “lol just move :4Head:” and hardening rights within the borders of blue states, which will inevitably lead back to a constitutional crisis. There are half a dozen right wing groups working towards calling a constitutional convention who have made astounding progress over the last couple years.
It all adds up and I see pogroms in the next few years and mass graves within 10 if things continue as-is. They’re coming for contraception access. They’re coming for racial integration. They’re coming for the 14th amendment and for gay marriage and for gender protections and for expanded suffrage. They’re coming for social security. They’re coming for Medicaid. They’re coming for it all.
We have concentration camps for migrant workers and refugees crossing the border, and the US Prison System is basically an internal camp system. The Nazis didn't start out with extermination camps. They worked towards it incrementally for years.
For sure. I was just having trouble seeing how the immediate future tied into that build up on an intuitive level. It seemed like an awful present disjoint from an awful future. Seeing the continuity is making me feel like I’m finally feeling a proportionate amount of urgency.
The Holocaust wasnt just camps. It was also as Nazis going across Eastern Europe just murdering people. Fascists everywhere have had death squads just do murder of their enemies.