A Night at the Garden

[Wanderfound]

@d_r

This rally was an aberration. It took 1,700 NYC policemen to keep the protesters at bay – so a lot of protesters – and the leader/speaker, Fritz Kuhn, was German: he moved to the US in his 30s, was thrown into Sing Sing the same year as this rally, and deported back to Germany a few years later. There’s a lot wrong with the US today, but please don’t try to portray this event as somehow representative of us, it is frankly offensive.

There were substantial left-wing movements in 20th century Germany as well.

I understand that you disagree, and I appreciate that I have virtually no chance of persuading you of the validity of my perspective. I do not wish to offend you. Nevertheless…

Nazi Germany based its racial laws upon American examples:

How the Nazis Used Jim Crow Laws as the Model for Their Race Laws

https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/events/ugly-precursor-to-auschwitz-hitler-said-to-have-been-inspired-by-us-indian-reservation-system/?utm_content=buffercff54&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Why the Nazis studied American race laws for inspiration

Pro-fascist sentiment in the 1930’s USA was a mainstream, establishment view.

https://mobile.twitter.com/freeyourmindkid/status/928635245532012544

https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/928637814929068033?s=17

MuckRock

Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸

The USA has always been among the most fascist-friendly of the capitalist states. The roots of this go back to the birth of the nation. The Confederacy was arguably a proto-fascist state, and the failure of Reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877 ensured that this influence was never removed from the American political establishment.

From Paxton’s Five Stages of Fascism.