Here’s the only problem with comparing the Trump regime to Nazis: we have our own homegrown analogy, our heritage of slavery, and the enforcers of that oppression.
“Slave catchers” just isn’t as catchy as “Gestapo”, in addition to making white people uncomfortable. But it is more accurate. The Nazis were inspired by purely American racism, from the genocide against Native Americans and the reservation system to the use of concentration camps (tip o’ the hat to the British in the Boer War for that one, too). We have a lot of sins we should be more conscious of. It’s troubling how often we have targeted people on the basis of race: Native Americans, Black people, Japanese Americans…we’ve had special state-endorsed treatments for people of color throughout our history.
I think America and Sweden were ahead of Germany with forced sterilization, too.
Sweden was first with an instutute for racial hygiene, I am not familiar with the details of the American side of organizational pseudoscience
“Human traffickers” would also be accurate. I understand they get a bonus or bounty for every person they bring in.
Who is “we” here exactly?
Americans – United States of – always been very divided and contradictory and split. Always had so much good and also so much evil in their culture(s) / system(s) / actions.
People = always individuals (Oblig Monty Python ref – “I”m not!”)
Live up to the best and not the worst y’all can be. Please.
Pretty please with the future of our entire durn planet on top, pretty much.
You guys all far too powerful. That is the fact. Too influential. Too mighty. Rogue superpower.
Dunno how, got a few ideas that probly won’t work & are drastic – but Trump and his regime need to go ASAP.
PS. HG Wels War of tehWorlds 1898 novel? Was based on how the European – British – colonisers treated our Indigenous people specifically in Tasmania if memory serves.
Our Auissie frontier wars still buried in denial and willful ignorance FWIW. So .. Humanity I think? The worst aspects of our natures not just just in any one country or group at “play” (for want of better word) here..
There was a profit motive for slave patrols, and the people grabbed by ICE go to for-profit prisons. Some people are getting very rich off this.
@birgerjohansson
JH Kellogg, of cornflakes fame, founded the Race Betterment Foundation in 1914 and the Eugenics Record Office was established in the state of New York in 1911. So, I believe the US beat Sweden to it.
#4 @shiela
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