I have to say, the number of ICE/immigration dog whistle/dehumanisation items (essentially the Nazi items - and even the articles/pieces including the actual term Nazis is increasing as a subset) that occur each day astonishes me on a daily basis. I can't believe that so much shit is going on every single day.
Oliver Willis
@owillis
i have a related pitch for politico.
what if - hear me out - we designated an entire race of people as say, three fifths of a normal white human? and we put these people to work on plantations, and - get this this is wild - we didnt pay them? and we chained em up? BIG IDEA.
And
Trump’s Border Agents Look to Team Up With U.S. Spies
And some veterans are concerned: ‘I can, without your knowledge, spy on you, go get a warrant, and I can detain you.’
www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-border-agents-look-to-team-up-with-us-spies
And
Sarah Kendzior
@sarahkendzior
The University of Tennessee -- Knoxville Black Alliance condemns the upcoming nazi speaker on campus and the lack of resistance from the administration.
Their statement is below.
twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/963562045949054981
And
Caroline O.
@RVAwonk
Here's an article I wrote last fall that provides a tiny glimpse into how easily the 1st amendment can be weaponized & exploited by bad actors.
--> How Russian & Alt-Right Twitter Accounts Worked Together to Skew the Narrative About Berkeley
arcdigital.media/how-russian-alt-right-twitter-accounts-worked-together-to-skew-the-narrative-about-berkeley-f03a3d04ac5d?gi=2ca0c973742d
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Self-described 'friend' of neo-Nazis won't join the New York Times editorial board after outrage
www.nydailynews.com/news/national/self-described-friend-nazis-won-join-ny-times-outrage-article-1.3819184?cid=bitly
nadinevanderVelde
*@nadinevdVelde*
1/ @nytimes when you hired a 'friend' of Nazis' & stated "We're excited to have Quinn to help our readers understand what's possible and what's sensible, and where we're all headed," did you mean normalizing hate speech?
2/ When you hire Nazi sympathizers like Quinn you make these kind off attacks I've routinely received since Nov 10/2016 "possible and sensible." So for the second time in a month *@nytimes F*K YOU!
twitter.com/nadinevdVelde/status/963608209331228674
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diane alston 👩🏾💻
*@dianelyssa*
It is absolutely frightening to see so many cis, straight, white liberals excuse Nazis and bigots or the friends of Nazis and bigots if they deem those people "interesting" or having made a few positive contributions to society.
You're going to tell me to my Face of Color™ that we should try to "understand" and "reason with" people who believe in the total and complete annihilation of Jewish people and the annihilation or oppression of anyone who isn't a cis, straight, white dude?
I don't think so.
You're going to tell me that even though Quinn Norton is friends with Nazis and throws out bigoted slurs like beads at Mardi Gras, we shouldn't lose sight of her accomplishments and remind ourselves that she has Worth™?
I don't think so.
When you (cis, straight, white liberals) turn a blind eye to someone's bigotry because you think they're "interesting" or that they can benefit you in some way, what you say to those of us who thought you were allies of ours is that you don't actually care about us.
When you (cis, straight, white liberals) turn a blind eye to someone's bigotry for whatever excuse you may give as to why, what you say to those of us who aren't cis, straight, and white is "I care more about myself than I do about your safety."
Hitler was a great painter but that means fuck all since he carried out the Holocaust and everything. There are other painters who are just as good and many who are better and we praise those artists instead of a genocidal antisemite!
This is not a hard concept to grasp.
If someone is friends with someone who holds bigoted and genocidal views or holds those views themselves, I really couldn't give a flying fork about the "worth" of their existence.
They are trash and so are you for thinking they don't deserve to be dragged to hell and back.
There are many of you #OnHere who have outed yourselves as not being true allies. You might think you still are, especially if nobody has called you out. But us marginalized people see what you say, and we've taken notes.
We see you, and we don't trust you.
Your past activism means nothing when what you've said today runs counter to the fight for justice. Your urge to sympathize with bigots and remind us that they've made positive contributions to society and maybe they're just "misunderstood" renders your past activism moot.
This is something I've seen come from the left, right, and center of The Left™. Y'all will elevate bigots if:
1): The bigot supports Medicare For All.
2): The bigot is pro-choice.
3): The bigot criticizes Donald Trump.
4): The bigot said literally anything you agree with.
Y'all need to get this through your heads: We do not need the support of bigots, Trump voters or otherwise, to get to where we want to be and you do not need to elevate bigots just because they made a good point one time.
We already went through this with Joe Walsh. Just because someone says something you agree with does not absolve them of the hateful and harmful rhetoric they have spewed for years and does not mean you need to applaud them for not being Shit™ for once.
To wrap up this thread: Stop letting your weird ass Bleeding Heart White Liberal Urge™ to coddle every human being you see lead to you ignoring someone's bigotry because you think they tweet good or can be "saved" or "converted" or whatever. It's whack.
And
A Top ICE Attorney Has Been Charged With Stealing Immigrants' Identities
Raphael A. Sanchez is accused of stealing the information of seven immigrants while their cases were under review by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.buzzfeed.com/salvadorhernandez/ices-top-lawyer-in-seattle-has-been-charged-with-stealing?utm_term=.yuz29K9yV#.hkLK4m47d
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The Hill
@thehill
80 of Trump's first 87 judicial nominees are white hill.cm/iwA4PSY
And
Noah Shachtman
@NoahShachtman
NEW: Asian American groups are accusing the FBI director of 'racial profiling.'
www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-directors-shock-claim-chinese-students-are-a-potential-threat
And
Rachel Maddow MSNBC
@maddow
"As a candidate, Trump repeatedly said he would never cut Medicare or Medicaid. Now he proposes cutting Medicare by $554 billion and Medicaid by around $250 billion."
www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/02/13/daily-202-trump-budget-highlights-disconnect-between-populist-rhetoric-and-plutocrat-reality/5a8261a530fb041c3c7d7838/?utm_term=.36c78f2e5eb8
(((Yonatan Zunger)))
@yonatanzunger
This is actual Nazism at work. The argument that the disabled are a burden on society, too expensive to keep alive, with lives not really worth living, justified the first Nazi mass killing. And now Trump and Pence are starting to make it into policy.
A lifetime cap on Medicaid would be a literal death sentence for thousands. They know this, and are pushing for it anyway - because they do not care who, other than themselves, lives or dies.
Everyone, this is the real thing. This is not an exercise; we are seeing literal policies from the Third Reich being pushed in the US today. The targets today are immigrants, the disabled, the Black, the Brown, the Muslim.
What you'll see next: laws revoking immigration status for immigrants who do legal things that are "too expensive," and restrict jobs which can be held by immigrants in favor of citizens.
If you want to understand the history of why such laws are passed and significant, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for_the_Restoration_of_the_Professional_Civil_Service …
And if you want to understand what justifications are used for the murder of the disabled, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4
On a similar subject, how about sterilizing people deemed a burden in society? "Voluntarily," of course.
New York PostVerified account
@nypost
An Oklahoma woman convicted of using a counterfeit check has received a reduced sentence after getting medically sterilized at the suggestion of the judge nyp.st/2nUvUQw