Tag: fascism

fullpraxisnow:

With Trump’s election and the threat of fascism, Twitter user Raphael Bob-Waksberg reminds us of Martin Niemöller’s words after WWII:

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

vervainsorrowmist:

Call things what they are. By using the language of your oppressors, you are being complicit in your own oppression. Do not normalize this. This is not normal, and we sure as fuck shouldn’t sanitize it.

I’m not a professional historian, but my teacher had a special interest in WWII and what led up to it. And this? This is exactly how the Nazi regime started. They normalized it, edged a bit further, that got normalized too, and by the time major shit was going down, it was too fucking late.

We need to make sure it’s not too fucking late this time. “Never again” needs to mean something.

thecringeandwincefactory:

frettedwithgoldenfire:

Trump, just now: “You know, they have a word. It sort of became old-fashioned. It’s called a nationalist. And I say really, we’re not supposed to use that word. You know what I am? I am a nationalist. Use that word.”


In the future, when they write the history and say fascism in America was like a frog in boiling water, remember that was a lie. We knew and saw and no one cared.

It’s real: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/23/politics/donald-trump-nationalism/index.html