Why You Should Actually Be Terrified Right Now harpersbazaar.com/culture/politi…
''Taking away people’s passports and citizenship is a precursor to genocide.
It’s what happened to Jewish people in Germany in 1938 when their passports were declared invalid. That is what is beginning to happen here, now, to Hispanic citizens along the U.S.-Mexico border.'
It’s what happened to Jewish people in Germany in 1938 when their passports were declared invalid. That is what is beginning to happen here, now, to Hispanic citizens along the U.S.-Mexico border.'
'Hispanic U.S. citizens, some of whom were in the U.S. military, are not being allowed to renew their passports. This is reportedly happening to “hundreds, even thousands” of Latinos, according to a report in the Washington Post.
..They’re getting letters from the State Department saying it does not believe they are citizens. The government claims their citizenships are fraudulent. “I’ve had probably 20 people who have been sent to the detention center—U.S citizens,” Jaime Diez, an attorney told Wash Post
'Rulers don’t typically make mass announcements when minorities are being persecuted up to and including death. It is not necessary for the purposes of autocrats who wish to commit genocide that everyone knows what is happening to minorities.
'It is only necessary that most people be indifferent to what is happening to them. The steps that lead up to genocide, besides stripping minorities of their citizenship, are about “othering” a population enough that the strife they experience
..is not seen as akin to anything we might experience. It’s what allows people like Tucker Carlson to see children in internment camps and say that anyone who is horrified is part of a “ruling class” who “cares more about foreigners than their own people.”
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