This is Left Praxis, LIBERALS would never understand the 4d chess involved in how Trump winning helps Palestine and American minorities.

  • whoreticulture@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Do you really not see the parallels of a white supremacist coup? Even if it is state, and not federal?

    So … you do think January 6th is worse than all that? You just want to ignore history? Why? Republicans have been bad? Can you please explain why you want to deny that Republicans have always had awful, anti-democratic strategies that rely on disenfranchisement? Trump is part of a larger pattern, there is a reason he was able to rise to power. It’s not like Hitler was the first person to think up anti-semetism.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It’s not like Hitler was the first person to think up anti-semetism.

      And if you tried to play apologist for Hitler by trying to make an equivalence between him and all prior antisemites, it would sound about the same as this does.

      • whoreticulture@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Have you never heard of antisemitic pogroms?Hitler had technological advances for his genocide, but he was far from the first.

          • whoreticulture@lemmy.world
            12·
            4 months ago

            I am responding to your exact message. You said

            And if you tried to play apologist for Hitler by trying to make an equivalence between him and all prior antisemites, it would sound about the same as this does.

            And I said:

            Have you never heard of antisemitic pogroms?Hitler had technological advances for his genocide, but he was far from the first.

            If you think that’s a non-sequitor, that explains a lot of your attempts at discussion.

            • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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              4 months ago

              Tell me more about how previous antisemitic pogroms and the Holocaust were equivalent.

              • whoreticulture@lemmy.world
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                4 months ago

                They just didn’t have the technology to enact something on the scale of the Holocaust, but the genocidal intent was the same. Not to mention the hundreds of years of legal subjugation and regular scapegoating. I don’t see why you think it’s useful for you to pretend that Republican extremeism is new, if anything this is the latest iteration of an ongoing plan. One could definitely argue that it’s urgent to outvote Trump, and acknowledge his place in the context of history. What you are doing is intellectually dishonest.

                • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  4·
                  4 months ago

                  Yep, definitely, it’s just the scale of the Holocaust that’s exceptional. /s

                  I think we’re finished here.

                  • whoreticulture@lemmy.world
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                    4 months ago

                    Did you really not understand what I was saying? Do you think anti-semetism was not broadly acceptable before the Holocaust? Hitler got his ideas from somewhere. The violence during the Holocaust was tolerated for a reason. Anti-semetic officials in the United States government enabled the Holocaust to continue for longer than it could have, had action been taken.

                    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Holocaust

                    In January 1944, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josiah E. DuBois Jr. authored a report detailing how certain officials within the Department of State had worked to prevent assistance to Jewish refugees and obscure information about the Holocaust. In response, President Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board as an independent agency to help Jewish refugees

                    I don’t see how it benefits you to deny history. We exist in the context, etc etc