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Holocaust or Pogrom wave?
Jun. 21st, 2019 08:23 pmMass anti-immigrant raids scheduled for Sunday.
With my disabilities, I don't know what I can do about this. I am unable to travel to protests, or to religious groups, or most other foci for activism. I could easily get sick from noise, police-car lights, and so on.
There's a lot in common with the early Holocaust: organized state violence, concentration camps, etc.
But some of it echoes parts of the Pogrom wave during the Russian and Ukrainian Civil Wars: disorganized state policy, encouraaing the violence with some statements and discouraging it with others. The Trump admin probably wouldn't protect a Semesenko yet. But Trump pardoned Arpaio and appeals to white nationalists. The far-right media sows a lot of the seeds for the Squirrel Hill Massacre, the Christchurch Massacre, the Portland Murders, the Olathe Murder, the Charlottesville Murder, etc.
Fortunately, it's nowhere near 30,000 to 60,000 dead. May it never get there.
With my disabilities, I don't know what I can do about this. I am unable to travel to protests, or to religious groups, or most other foci for activism. I could easily get sick from noise, police-car lights, and so on.
There's a lot in common with the early Holocaust: organized state violence, concentration camps, etc.
But some of it echoes parts of the Pogrom wave during the Russian and Ukrainian Civil Wars: disorganized state policy, encouraaing the violence with some statements and discouraging it with others. The Trump admin probably wouldn't protect a Semesenko yet. But Trump pardoned Arpaio and appeals to white nationalists. The far-right media sows a lot of the seeds for the Squirrel Hill Massacre, the Christchurch Massacre, the Portland Murders, the Olathe Murder, the Charlottesville Murder, etc.
Fortunately, it's nowhere near 30,000 to 60,000 dead. May it never get there.
