Pictured: a young, wrathful Frederick Douglass.

Comparing America's racist immigration control and enforcement measures to 1930s Germany is... inaccurate. 2026 America is now emulating what it was before 1860. The

When:

  • Indigenous, black, tan, brown, Asian, and people are arrested because the look like 'the other,'

  • lies are written off as memes,

  • the Monroe Doctrine is foreign policy,

  • cities are terrorized by secret police,

  • non-conformists are shot in the streets,

  • political opposition is met with federal investigation

all of America's episodes of villainy are back in play.

Genocide, colonialism, plunder, militarism, more plunder, expansionism, Manifest Destiny, white supremacy, even more plunder, hypocrisy, calamity profiteering, segregation, McCarthyism, monopolies, interventionism, propagandizement, dumbing-down, and a lot more plunder — this is the "great" some in America seek.

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[–] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

This book touches on it and other caste systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste:_The_Origins_of_Our_Discontents

It's definitely worth a read, especially in today's climate.

Edit: Here's another dark chapter we're repeating that nobody teaches US students about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation

Another book recommendation https://www.unmpress.com/9780826339744/decade-of-betrayal/

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