by dathinab | 2025-07-24 12:14:51+00:00
yes and the US has problem with right wing extremism in ways which have a lot of similarities to fascism since before you where born (or even before fascism rose in Germany)

like the KKK

or the non-negligible amount of people which wanted to join the Nazis instead of fight them (until the Nazis sunk a larger US civilian chip by accident)

or the endless amount of laws regulations tweaked in ways to systematically discriminate against (mainly) black people as enough with power didn't really want to fully let go of slavery

or the various variations of christian churches, which by US standards are sometimes just that, but by EU standards would be classified as cult (to be clear not all of them at all!!!, just some but still a surprising large amount), which not seldomly teach "conservative" values which often happen to have a large overlap with fascism

and the US had been very hands of about that, KKK crimes or that there where not few people which initially wanted to if join only on the Nazi side is mostly put under the rug to be forgotten. Similar the long trend of lynching of black people, including some gruesome mass murder is also is also mostly no thought in school or any state controlled sources, and the list goes one and one

yes not new language, but that doesn't make it wrong racist and de-humizing and pretending that "aliens" doesn't has such connotation (by administration/government) is IMHO just hypocrisy

the problem is less that ICE has always used it but how its becoming increasingly more normalized in common language and paired up with other new dehumanizing language, and more calls for more law enforcement violence and in general treating all the elements of society which are seen as harmful increasingly less as humans

and that should have you worried, as that in combination with other stuff (high polarization, quite dysfunctional government having trouble passing laws due having way to far apart world views, and the list goes one) are frighteningly very similar dynamics as you had in Germany which allowed the Nazis to size power

and it would be VERY absurd to say the US becomes another Hitler Germany, but it also is very worrisome anyway

I was over and over thought how the catastrophe of Hiterl Germany happened, what dynamics allowed the Nazis to size power, what dynamics allowed them to commit absurd crimes without the population raising up against it large scale etc. And I'm looking to the US and seeing the exact same kinds of dynamic and people being obvious and downplaying it and then I look at some always conservative but moderat-ish streamers I sometimes watched and see how this whole movement affect them how their language slowly and subtly morphs becoming increasingly more filled with dehumanizing aspects and normalization/acceptance of law enforcement violence. How again and again react to videos which pretend to be "centrist, purely objective" but are highly manipulative and dishonest but also _very_ good at it and every time more and more "Verrohung" (~brutalization, dehumanization, call for more policing with a iron fist etc.) seeps into their language. And you try to reach them and point out how they get manipulated in situations where they could see it just by closely looking at the actual video content, but you don't reach anyone anymore because the person which once was open for many honest discussions is now filled up by a righteous indignation instilled by constantly agitating them with propagandize which very clearly (from a external POV) in conflict with the US having a rule of law and non-make-pretense democracy).

And that frightens me, because that is exactly the dynamics Nazis used to size power and normalize putting Jews in Labor Camps (and later death camps, but the labor camps also used calculated mal nutrition to slowly kill them while extracting money through forced labor). And again not saying they will turn into a new Nazi country, this are different times, people, goals, discrimination, even the racism is different. BUT it's still very dangerous anyway.

And the US has a tendency to try to export force their current ideology/shit onto other western nations. Which is why people outside of the US should have all reason to worry even through they don't really have any right to get involved into US inner politics.