Mastodawn

🚨 This is literally textbook Aryanization

- State violence causes economic distress
- The targeted group forced to sell assets
- Non-targeted people get a 'deal'
- Economic incentives align with persecution

We have seen this before.
It is happening NOW in the United States.

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Mx Arjuna 6d ago

"Remigration" is ethnic cleansing. Eliminationist economics at work. "Aryanization": a Nazi euphemism for systematically taking property from persecuted groups. It started as "voluntary" due to economic coercion, later became theft backed by violence.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/aryanization

"Aryanization"

By the process of "Aryanization" in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, Jewish-owned businesses and property were transferred to non-Jews. Learn more.

Holocaust Encyclopedia

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Mx Arjuna 6d ago

Economic pressure creates this kind of "voluntary" asset liquidation. Migrants facing ICE raids are forced to sell cars and other things quickly at below market prices so they can flee or prepare for detention. They're not choosing to sell. They're being forced by state violence.

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Mx Arjuna 6d ago

This happened in Germany but it also happened in the United States during WWII. Japanese Americans were sent to the concentration camps and their homes, businesses, and farms were taken and often never returned.

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Mx Arjuna 6d ago

When this happens the population who aren't being targeted by ICE benefits from the sales. Americans can now buy trucks at a low price because of ICE. This creates a situation where people have an economic stake in the persecution. Just like Germans who bought Jewish businesses.

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Mx Arjuna 6d ago

This is exactly how authoritarian regimes create economic stakeholders in genocide. Advertising the financial benefit of ethnic cleansing to create more popular support.

'Get those deportation numbers up and you too can profit from your neighbors being sent to a camp.'