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  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]English
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    1 year ago

    Hitler was in power from 1933 to 1945, and the death camp program started around 1941. In the Wannsee Conference in 1942 it was decided by Heydrich and Eichmann that the Jewish ghettos cost too much to maintain and it was impossible to deport the Jews on the grounds that no-one else would take them. (That was his argument, but yes, even the US was turning back boatloads of Jewish refugees.) So you’re demanding that we compare events in the US to the last couple years of the German Reich.

    Here in the US we’re comparable to around 1935, when the Nuremberg laws were getting passed that stripped untermenschen of their rights, which states are doing to women and trans folk right now, in 2023.

    It was during the Reagan administration that the prison industrial complex and the law enforcement industrial complex were established, mostly as a way to funnel government funds into building prisons and letting the DEA harass and shoot up poor people. But to this day, our prisons remain impacted, and the US has the highest rate of imprisonment compared to any other nation, including China and North Korea, and not only are prisons super scary (with a prisoner sexual abuse / violent abuse rate of about 33% from the prison staff and an unreported rate of deaths, often by grisly means like getting willfully denied water and dying of thirst, or getting locked in the showers and braised with scalding water).

    No, the concentration camps are here. The gulags are here in the US, and that’s not even getting into the immigration detention centers or the people still detained (without due process) from the war on terror, often who have been tortured.

    It might have been hyperbolic in 2000. But shit got real in 2003 and has never gotten better. In 2017 when the Trump administration went over, the transnational white power movement kicked into full fascist gear, and hasn’t even slowed down since Trump left office.

    So yes, comparisons of the United States to the German Reich are scary apt, and unless we don’t turn things around, possibly by having to force or coerce the federal government to take it seriously, then we can expect a genocide machine that could exceed the Holocaust, especially since the law enforcement unions nationwide are aligned with the movement.