Setting aside "Eliminate Whiteness" and the such, it isn't about racial purges -- it is about creating mechanisms of control, about the machinery of restriction

Setting aside "Eliminate Whiteness" and the such, it isn't about racial purges -- it is about creating mechanisms of control, about the machinery of restriction, hence my metaphor. Once that ability exists, once the assembly line is built, once the use of that control and restriction becomes normalized (see "localization"), nobody should be a tiny bit surprised if it happens in a way that they might not like. Perillos of Athens, who invented the instrument of tortue known as the brazen bull, had his own turn in it. The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse was perilously close to being accurate and people just seem to have gone along with it. Decades ago, I truly had thought that the left was too smart to fall for this sort of thing but evidently I was wrong. We ought to be continuously on the lookout for this kind of thing and fighting it at every step, even for people whose views we find disagreeable, if for no other reason than the self-interest of hoping that it will not be our turn later on.