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   kevin (feelnotes@alaskan.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 13:53:52 JST kevin

   🔥 hot take: the u.s. liberal/left’s habit of comparing right-wing illiberalism to nazi history rather than the much longer (and more relevant) history of southern u.s. white supremacist authoritarianism is intellectually lazy and ultimately counterproductive

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     kevin (feelnotes@alaskan.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 13:54:28 JST kevin

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     “we can’t let it happen here” in the country where Black southerners couldn’t vote before 1965

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 13:59:54 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     Except, the German people never gave Hitler or the Nazis anywhere near a majority in the Reichstag. Hitler was *appointed* Chancellor by the "mainstream" conservative President von Hindenberg in 1937; he then used that position to consolidate his power.

     2) Technically, Black Southerners (and Northerners) were given the right to vote by the 14th Amendment, ratified after the Civil War. In actuality, though, they were intimidated and legally harassed into non-voting....

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 14:04:49 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     ...through direct violence via the KKK militias, paralegal restrictions such as poll taxes and "voting tests", and other means of Jim Crow segregation imposed by Southern legislatures to continue the system of White Supremacy.

     Plus, the comparison is legitimate because Hitler himself used the Jim Crow segregationist system and the land theft of Native Americans as templates for his own creation of "Aryan race" domination.