Thread by @ooana

Schools in America are being paid to abuse children. This fact is being censored by private companies such as Facebook.

If you think this is somehow reasonable let me add that this is federal money. So this is YOUR money.

Please tell me how this is any less insidious than

the third Reich.

You can’t.

Overuse of the comparison has made us numb to when it’s actually happening.

No use of the Stalinist comparison makes us blind to when it is happening.

Liberty has become something that can be negotiated and the when the first amendment is cited as justification for “Killing the Chicken to Scare the Monkey” you are no longer defending a debatable ideal. You’re bastardizing the idea of personhood and subjugating the value

of the individual and liberty for dogma…you’re not better than those who defended purges, blacklists or book burnings.

At a certain point debate is simply apathetical complacence and being complicit. Even if you don’t know how to solve the problem…not trying is no different

than willfully acting toward what is being done.

If we don’t draw the line at children (bad enough we didn’t at the elderly) then we are proving Washingington’s warning true and ushering in what he was most afraid would happen.

The spirit of party burning liberty to the ground.

And those who know this and don’t fight like hell to find anyway to push back will he remembered for their inaction. Their excuses will mean as much as those who knew exactly where the train in 1944 were going.