I’m seeing patterns here; Trump is refocusing anti-terrorism efforts away from domestic (read; white supremacist) terrorism, which has been the source for the majority of terrorist acts in the US in the last decade. Reports suggest a growing presence of white supremacists in law enforcement. Legal immigrants being forced to go through “extreme vetting” process, and families being denied entry or deported. Trump expressing admiration for dictators like Philippine President Duterte who has enlisted his own thugs and military to commit more than 7,000 extrajudicial killings…
Ugh. It’s too early for this shit, I’m still drinking my coffee here. I have a strict ‘no Nazis before 9 a.m.’ policy, this includes both interaction and discussion. Trump probably doesn’t start work until 10 in the mornin so we still have an hours head start to set up our Nazi bashers.
If any such horrors of violence are headed to the US, the murders will not be limited to Muslims. It will look a lot more like that really bad horror movie The Purge. Murderous assholes of every flavor looking for a piece of the action while they can get away with it.
We are so fucked. There are little orange men in the United States. These vehicles are unmarked, flying a non-permitted flag, and did not identify themselves until several days after said movement occurred. All violations of United States armed forces procedure. Just another mourning in America.
What I’m “setting up” is a theory that we are headed towards a purge; that the groundwork is being laid for a time of violence against muslims, the goal of which will be to drive muslims out of the country. Step one, close the borders. Step two, use some incident as an excuse to encourage violent retaliation against Muslim immigrants. Step three, deport anyone left.
I don’t think it’s a dilution. I agree that when people make bad analogies to the holocaust it dilutes our understanding of the scale of its horror. But to reference kristallnacht when suggesting that we might be headed towards a state-sanctioned period of violence against a vilified racial minority seems entirely appropriate. If we can’t use that word, we forget what kristallnacht was - we fail to remember the history and set ourselves up to repeat it.
Keeping memory alive is important but the events of Jewish history nor the essential aspects of the Jewish people isnt universalist so I still think its dilution to apply our real experience to somethig that hadnt actually happened.
If they have their way, after they are done with the Muslims, they will come for the Jews. Maybe they’ll come for Hispanics first, maybe LGBT people, who knows, but you’ll have your turn eventually. They will use different propaganda for the various different groups, at least superficially different, and they may use different tactics. But rest assured, your people are on the same list, and the same boat, as the Muslims.
