uriel238 comments on Idaho bans ‘Everyone Is Welcome Here’ classroom signs, calling them ideological

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Well, the signs are ideological, in that they conflict with the state-enforced ideology. Curiously, churches are getting in trouble discussing the beatitudes, since they (yes, Jesus' own words) are in conflict with the state-enforced ideology.

What is scary is when there's insufficient resistance to the state-enforced ideology that runs contrary to classic virtues / traditions of compassion, hospitality, mercy, etc. This is the banal evil that lets abductions, renderings, concentration camps and eventually genocide happen.

If you don't fight with banners today, you'll have to fight with guns tomorrow.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago*

For decades now, I'm been warning about the era of this regime, and got a lot of oh yeah? Where are the death camps?

Dachau was operative in 1933. The Wannsee Conference was in 1942, after which the Auschwitz model was replicated at other camps, and the final solution to the Jewish question was applied to the general contained population, rather than just disabled, mentally ill and gays.

So in the timeline of the German Reich, the death camps appeared rather late, and I tend to err on the side of understatement, even though officer involved killings, and punitive fatalities in US prisons have been routine for decades at a rate of ~1000/year