Anyone else remember in history the Germans who were rewarded for reporting

[Murphyb849]

The "undesirables" to the Nazi party? This new law in Texas reminds me of that. Scary shit.

[Kittycatkat]

1. The parallels are frightening.

[IcyPeas]

2. And Abbott would've been considered undesirable

[canetoad]

4. Exactly IcyPeas

The T4 program required co-operation from doctors and bureaucrats.

When we say 'Never Again' we mean turning neighbour against neighbour. How can this be acceptable again?

[Murphyb849]

3. Also how can you take someone to court who has done you no actual harm? What law allows this?

[TheRealNorth]

6. I wondered about this also

I always thought you had to have legal standing in order to sue. But I guess Republicans get to ignore that too.

[Hekate]

5. USSR was infamous for that as well. In fact, any totalitarian regime counts on neighbors ...

…and acquaintances and even families spying on each other and turning each other in.

With the addition of an actual bounty, this throws us even further back, to the times of the literal witch hunts and witch trials. Witch hunters earned a fee for each “witch” discovered — and it is amazing how that incentivized them in their work.

This is a truly ugly part of human nature.

[Irish_Dem]

7. China used to do this with a vengeance. Citizens ratting out each other for minor infractions.

[pecosbob]

8. Let's not forget the House Un-American Activities Committee

We've seen this before. Republicans have always resembled the communists and the nazis to me. It's about those who think that the end justifies the means...it never does.

[Tanuki]

9. This also happened under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge.