Andrea Junker 
It doesn’t start with Kristallnacht.
It doesn’t start with gas chambers.
It doesn’t start with concentration camps.
It starts with saying immigrants eat your pets.
chef 😎@Strandjunker
Exactly.
"But they're not gonna deport the good ones... my neighbour, nanny, son in law, barber, colleague..." 😤
Captainrob@Strandjunker it starts with saying Israel has a right to defend itself from the occupied oppressed Palestinians who have been decimated for decades. How dare they fight back.
Dems and republicans both support a #genocide and if you back that then you're scum too.
Why can't libs raise the bar. Wtf is genocide not an issue? Where's your damn moral compass? Slaughtering babies in the name of what?
#Shame on you for giving the world a shit show presidential race with two genocidal POS.
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"it starts with saying trans people groom your kids.
PeachMcD@Strandjunker
Even before that, it starts with 'homeless people are all dirty criminals & need to be removed'
Even before that, it starts with 'homeless people are all dirty criminals & need to be removed'
xs4me2
Uwe_KauffmannWenn Du das glaubst, ist schon lange der Damm zur Bereitschaft, des Glaubens des Bösen im Fremden gebrochen, das ist schon weit weg vom Start.
Mal davon abgesehen, wer will das essen, von dem er weiß, wie das gefüttert worden ist.
Do kocht in mir kein Hass hoch, das ist Selbstbestrafung par excellence.
Big Beautiful Blue WallIt will be surprising to many many people how smoothly the transition to fascism proceeds.
Nicole ParsonsRecommendation for a book about why Republicans hate education, history, and immigrants.
Diasporas bring new ideas to parochial or insular societies. Immigrants de-provincialize the thinking of communities they join.
Republicans don't want fresh ideas percolating through America. Ideas like pluralism, freedom from cognitive tyranny & religious factionalism, sharing the drive for building a common good
These are ideas GOP billionaires want to snuff out
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/E/bo43630536.html
Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500–2000
In this wide-ranging consideration of intellectual diasporas, historian Peter Burke questions what distinctive contribution to knowledge exiles and expatriates have made. The answer may be summed up in one word: deprovincialization. Historically, the encounter between scholars from different cultures was an education for both parties, exposing them to research opportunities and alternative ways of thinking. Deprovincialization was in part the result of mediation, as many émigrés informed people in their “hostland” about the culture of the native land, and vice versa. The detachment of the exiles, who sometimes viewed both homeland and hostland through foreign eyes, allowed them to notice what scholars in both countries had missed. Yet at the same time, the engagement between two styles of thought, one associated with the exiles and the other with their hosts, sometimes resulted in creative hybridization, for example, between German theory and Anglo-American empiricism. This timely appraisal is brimming with anecdotes and fascinating findings about the intellectual assets that exiles and immigrants bring to their new country, even in the shadow of personal loss.
cognitively accessible math@Strandjunker Welp, it didn't start there.
ArchaeoIain@Strandjunker great thread. What I get out of it is that the fascism started when inequality led to some people believing that they had the right to pay to make other people live in a world that was constructed the way the rich wanted it to be.
I thought that was to do with oil and the industrial revolution, but in reality it began before that with all those slave traders getting rich without a moral care in the world. And all those Dukes and Lords and shit.
I thought that was to do with oil and the industrial revolution, but in reality it began before that with all those slave traders getting rich without a moral care in the world. And all those Dukes and Lords and shit.
Ridley Kemp@Strandjunker The discussion on this thread of "where it started" gives one an appreciation for just how hard this will be to stop.
Did it start with the racist allegation of eating pets?
Did it start with the passage of the USA-PATRIOT act?
Or the Tea Party revolution in '94?
Or Reagan announcing his 11th commandment, placing party over principle?
Or Nixon and his Southern Strategy?
Or the crushing defeat of Goldwater leading to a grass-roots party takeover?
IMO, it's all of the above.
Broken Troland@Strandjunker It might actually start with Kristallnacht, though. Or, at least, they’re trying to get it scheduled for as soon as possible.
Pamela@Strandjunker And we ALL must reject it with a RESOUNDING NO VOTE this November; we will not go back to that type of hate mongering and scape goating! If you hear it being said SAY SOMETHING, confront their lies and humiliate those spreading the LIES!!!
Gondor@Strandjunker ..and order them to work for 80cent/hour or...
(here in a german town)
(here in a german town)
Steve Popovich@Strandjunker although we're frighteningly close to those last three, also.
Serge from BabkaPlease don't de-center Jews like this.
Source: European Jew and third generation survivor.
Jörg Seidel@Strandjunker
What many - even Germans - do not know is that concentration camps weren't the end point. They were the very first thing the Nazis did when they were handed the power.
@Ainar_von_Fieln
What many - even Germans - do not know is that concentration camps weren't the end point. They were the very first thing the Nazis did when they were handed the power.
@Ainar_von_Fieln
sonja dolinsek@Strandjunker it starts with "us" vs "them"