3 ms·
I genuinely have no idea what you mean, please explain further.
by boomboomsubban 4y ago
I genuinely have no idea what you mean, please explain further.
- pasquinelli 4y agoi take their meaning to be that the conclusion to draw is that the united states is fascist because (among other things i'm sure) they ran a program a fascist government ran (before the fascist government even), rather than concluding that even non-fascist countries run these types of programs.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoI think they’re making the same point I meant to make. Which isn’t exactly the same as the interpretation of my point that another comment added. US policy towards natives was directly cited as a model for nazism, and has been a model for programs in fascist and non-fascist regimes implementing similar policies for a long time. The US isn’t fascist, as another response interprets my meaning, but establishing a prototype for fascist policies should be recognized as such. The extent to which the US isn’t fascist is mostly lucky internal trivia for those of us who get to experience that luck. And that pendulum has a lot of inertia in the wrong direction. Best to recognize when we influenced some of the world’s worst mass crimes. That’s my point.
- boomboomsubban 4y ago>Best to recognize when we influenced some of the world’s worst mass crimes. That’s my point. I largely agree with that point, but was making a separate one that these issues don't just happen far away or a long time ago. At best, it happened in the US in living memory, at worst some version of it is still happening.