Pictured: a young, wrathful Frederick Douglass.
Comparing America’s racist immigration control and enforcement measures to 1930s Germany is… inaccurate. 2026 America is now emulating what it was before 1860. The
When:
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Indigenous, black, tan, brown, Asian, and people are arrested because the look like ‘the other,’
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lies are written off as memes,
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the Monroe Doctrine is foreign policy,
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cities are terrorized by secret police,
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non-conformists are shot in the streets,
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political opposition is met with federal investigation
all of America’s episodes of villainy are back in play.
Genocide, colonialism, plunder, militarism, more plunder, expansionism, Manifest Destiny, white supremacy, even more plunder, hypocrisy, calamity profiteering, segregation, McCarthyism, monopolies, interventionism, propagandizement, dumbing-down, and a lot more plunder — this is the “great” some in America seek.
Germany simply reproduced colonialism internally. Everything they did was modeled after what colonies had already done, the difference was that it was being done to Europeans this time instead of Africans or Native Americans or Asians.
Which is why Hitler and Nazis have become such villains in the eyes of the West when they didn’t do anything particularly new or shocking for their societies: because they did it to other White people. Non-whites? Fuck em, lol, chop off their hands and put them in zoos, get them all hooked in opium, starve and murder them while claiming you’re the victim, etc etc. Oh well. The imperial boomerang is hitting hard in America and will be felt in Europe as well, will Westerners finally learn that those who believe in nothing but their own supremacy don’t care about anyone and anything, skin colour included, and that something has to dramatically change at the core of the Western psyche?