The fact that many Americans cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.
02:30 PM - Feb 27, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
The odd thing? trump literally operates from Mein Kampf. His words, his tactics, all the same. 🤷🏻♀️
07:42 PM - Feb 15, 2024
In response to Andrea Junker.
Previous admin shared striking similarities with Mussolini style fascism. Fetishizing of military/paramilitary style law enforcement, cult of personality authoritative leadership, media bashing,, demonizing marginalized communities, anti-intellectualism, religion entwined with national politics etc.
10:46 PM - Jul 14, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
I am not even sure the ones you are talking about do. A large proportion of republicans categorize Nazis as socialists
12:42 PM - Jul 14, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
Intolerance of opposition. It doesn't have to be political.
12:01 PM - Jul 14, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
Too many people think they will benefit from a little more autocracy. It never works out that way, but the scapegoating makes it easy to blame anyone else but themselves when they lose everything to fascism.
11:26 AM - Jul 14, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
In discussing civil rights and systemic racism, a close relative said "I'm against genocide." I tried to explain the Nazis used propaganda to condition "good" people to accept human and civil rights violations, to otherize people, which led them to also accepting/ignoring genocide. /1
10:51 AM - Jul 14, 2023
In response to WhenWr64.
I hope what I said sunk in, but I cannot guarantee it did.
Playing footsie with the Republican party and so-called independents who vote Republican is the same as playing footsie with Nazis. There is a right and there is a wrong. /end
Playing footsie with the Republican party and so-called independents who vote Republican is the same as playing footsie with Nazis. There is a right and there is a wrong. /end
10:52 AM - Jul 14, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
Looks like straight out of the natzi playbook to me.
12:34 PM - Apr 03, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
That’s what happens when you have an extremely uneducated Electorate. Republicans have been pushing this agenda since Reagan. It’s just gotten more virulently racist, homophobic, and misogynistic. Personally, I find MAGA Republicans an embarrassment to our Country. I don’t think Gen Z likes them.
03:48 PM - Mar 22, 2023
In response to Yvette.
I don't think the Alpha Generatio (2011- ) like them either.
08:45 PM - Mar 26, 2023
In response to Yvette.
Unfortunate fact: Milennials and Gen Z have their far right fringe, too. And Gen Z doesn't like Democrats all that much, either. They're waiting for the student loan relief & universal health care that the far *left* faction of the party pretty well promised them.
08:47 PM - Mar 26, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
In fairness, why would they? Lest we forget, the OG Nazis took inspiration straight from Jim Crow.
02:44 PM - Mar 13, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
What "many Americans" know about Germany between 1933 and 1939? I think nothing or almost nothing.
07:47 AM - Mar 13, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
In 1937, Langston Hughes declared: “We Negroes in America do not have to be told what fascism is in action. We know. Its theories of Nordic supremacy and economic suppression have long been realities to us.”
https://www.bostonreview.n...
https://www.bostonreview.n...
12:44 PM - Mar 03, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
The 10 tactics of fascism with Jason Stanley:
1. Mythic past
2. Propaganda
3. Anti-intellectualism
4. Unreality
5. Hierarchy
6. Victimhood
7. Law and order
8. Sexual anxiety
9. Sodom and Gomorrah
10. Arbeit macht frei
https://youtu.be/CpCKkWMbm...
1. Mythic past
2. Propaganda
3. Anti-intellectualism
4. Unreality
5. Hierarchy
6. Victimhood
7. Law and order
8. Sexual anxiety
9. Sodom and Gomorrah
10. Arbeit macht frei
https://youtu.be/CpCKkWMbm...
The 10 tactics of fascism | Jason Stanley | Big Think - YouTube
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12:29 PM - Mar 03, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
Well, it looks like Nazi Germany to my friend who was born there and lived during that time as a child. Her father was forced to fight at the Russian front, died there. Her mother died young too, sadly. I believe my friend.
12:01 PM - Mar 03, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
I remember in the days after 9/11, we were numb, shocked to the core that something like that could happen HERE. I look at the current situation in the same way-we can't afford to be complacent and minimize/normalize what we're seeing/hearing. Very dangerous.
03:43 PM - Mar 01, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
Unfortunately, most of the current fascism in America looks an awful lot like fascist nazi Germany. Our schools are merely the practice grounds for mass genocide.
03:37 PM - Mar 01, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
Especially since so many obviously don't even know what Nazi Germany actually looked like. 🤷♀️
03:32 PM - Mar 01, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
Facism presents itself in many guises and sneaks up on people who aren’t paying attention. We have believed for so long “it can’t happen here” that many have been sleep walking.
10:19 AM - Mar 01, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
Fascism prowls dark streets in misleading costumes, slithering into human hearts & minds. In America, Fascism whispers into a citizen's ear, & when they turn to view the source, it is disguised in the robes of Jesus Christ, the stovepipe of Lincoln, even the well-cut suit of a black GOP congressman.
10:14 AM - Mar 01, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
I'm not seeing a lot of ways that our fascism looks way different from Germany in the 1930's.
06:50 PM - Feb 27, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
The saying is that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I’m appalled by the all out flirtation with fascism by so many. Is it naïveté? Racism? A failure of education, formal and informal? Why aren’t we learning?
06:43 PM - Feb 27, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
Those people who blow off world history will live to regret it.
06:02 PM - Feb 27, 2023
In response to Jennifer Thompson.
Correct. The world hasn't learned the lessons of the nazi past in our shared history, therefore are doomed to relive it...
05:48 PM - Jul 26, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
Amazing to me how many times throughout time history has repeated itself! This is another one of those times,... When the Germans finally recognized Nazism for what it really was, boxcar doors were already slamming shut! We all know what was next,..
04:06 PM - Feb 27, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
I'm not sure they don't recognize it. If it aligns with their ideology, they are OK with it. Look at Florida and Ron DeSantis
03:56 PM - Feb 27, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
Like the debt ceiling, may Americans don't know what fascism means.
03:54 PM - Feb 27, 2023
In response to Andrea Junker.
I'm equally concerned by the unwillingness to call fascism by its name.
03:10 PM - Feb 27, 2023
