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We Jews recognize what's happening at our border. WE ARE UNDER THE THUMB OF A YOUNG, FASCIST REGIME. Don't tell me it isn't that bad. Read the reports on how these people are being treated. Nazi Germany started by testing the waters on what they could get away with. 1/
And the German people kept saying, "it's not that bad." And then their Jewish neighbors had to start wearing yellow stars. Jewish owned businesses had to display a yellow star in their windows. And no one said anything so the Reich started raiding their Jewish 2/
Neighbors' homes and placing them in segregated neighborhoods called ghettos and took all their money, jewelry and expensive art work. And no one said anything so they stopped food from getting into these ghettos. Then people started dying in the streets of these ghettos 3/
And no one said anything so they built "labor" camps and the ghettos started emptying out as trains stuffed with their once neighbors were packed in shoulder to shoulder. Because no one said anything, people arriving at the camps were split up into the healthy who could work 4/
And the ones who were very young or very old. And because no one said anything when this all started they sent the weak/young/old group to take a shower that was actually a chamber where poisonous gas would be pumped in. And there were human sized ovens too. 5/
And because no one said anything, because everyone was afraid and didn't stand up to these monsters en masse, when it was all said and done, 6 million of their Jewish neighbors were dead from starvation, disease, hypothermia, poison gas, execution squads and 6/
By being tossed in an oven...ALIVE. And because no one said anything, when the allies liberated the camps they also starting forcing these neighbors, who didn't organize in large numbers to protest and stand up to fascism because IT WASN'T that bad, to take tours 7/
Of these camps. To see the ovens and the gas chambers and the living quarters. To see the mountains of skelatally thin corpses, their Jewish neighbors. But it wasn't that bad.
The circumstances are a bit different here, for now. But because we aren't saying anything, because 8/
The circumstances are a bit different here, for now. But because we aren't saying anything, because 8/
Congress refuses to put a stop to a fascist regime run by a madman, brown skinned people who have lived here for years, contributing to our economy, babysitting our kids, picking our food are going to be rounded up. Where do you think they are going to put these people? 9/
You can't just force walk millions of people over the border into Mexico. They're going to end up in processing stations. But we all know what that means.
We are only at the beginning stages of this. WE can stop this from getting worse. How? 10/
We are only at the beginning stages of this. WE can stop this from getting worse. How? 10/
Donate to @RAICESTEXAS. Call or write your Congresspersons by texting Resist to 50409 and follow the prompts and dialing the Congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121. Look up local pro immigration agencies in your area and reach out to them. Volunteer with these groups. 11/
Collect news articles and print off photos that are shared on SM. Then grab 5-10 of your friends and stop by your congresspersons local office to drop off the information. Demand that Trump be impeached. Email Speaker Pelosi.12/
But whatever you do, #DontLookAway. Don't try to kid yourself that it isn't that bad. Because it is. I promise you, it is. End/
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