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In reply to the discussion: This isn't a warning sign. It's a crisis. [View all]bigtree
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...toying around with the very elements of Jim Crow and fascism, this very recognizable bigotry and racism wielded from the highest office in the land.
I do think it's essentially a non-sequitur to hold out genocide as a measure of how secure we are from the effects of this demagoguery. After all, there is already a record and pattern of abuses, most of the accounting of which doesn't include the consequences to the tens of thousands of individuals sent back into dangerous situations, and the plights of those denied entry.
We probably shouldn't be judging America by pre-war Germany standards. We're a long way from that time and we're supposed to be better than this. It can happen here. We have our own history of genocide of our citizens.