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Jed Shugerman @jedshug
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Referring to racial minorities with the word "infest" is straight out of the Nazi dehumanization playbook.
Trump doesn't hide his fascism anymore. So let's not pretend anymore.
Trump is a fascist.
If you stand with Trump, you stand with fascism.
2/ The Nazis depicted Jews in their propaganda as infesting Europe as vermin, rats, parasites, and roaches. This is basic historical background leading up to the Holocaust. The Nazi film "The Eternal Jew" is one of the most infamous examples: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Etern…
3/ From the National Holocaust Museum: "The Nazi regime did not limit distribution of propaganda linking Jews and vermin or disease to Germany. In occupied Poland, Nazi propaganda reinforced the policy of confining Jews to ghettos by portraying them as a health threat...
4/"...requiring quarantine, while German policy makers created a self-fulfilling prophecy by severely limiting access by ghetto residents to food, water, and medicines. German educational films shown to Polish school children identified “the Jew” as a carrier of lice and typhus."
5/ "Governor of the Warsaw district, Ludwig Fischer, reported the distribution of “3,000 large posters, 7,000 smaller posters, and 500,000 pamphlets” to inform the Polish of the health threat posed by the ghettoized Jews. Such fear-mongering no doubt hindered public aid to Jews."
6/ If you ever wondered what you would have done if you lived in Germany in 1934...
Now you get to find out.
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