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Political Scientists Reassure Americans That Stripping Minorities Of Citizenship Usually Where Descent Into Fascism Peters OutYesterday 1:57pm
CHAPEL HILL, NCResponding to concern about the Trump administration accusing hundreds of Hispanic people living near the U.S.Mexico border of having fraudulent birth certificates and revoking their passports, political scientists reassured Americans Thursday that stripping minority groups of their citizenship is usually where the descent into fascism peters out.
I know people might be worried that a targeted effort by a countrys leaders to erode the civil liberties and question the citizenship of a specific minority group is some ominous sign of even worse things to come, but in nearly all cases, this actually represents the low-water mark for fascism, said Brian Snelling, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, echoing the sentiments of political scientists around the country in explaining that the Trump administrations accelerating use of white supremacist beliefs, discrimination, and violence to guide policy-making was actually a sure sign that egalitarian democracy was just around the corner.
This is a classic historical trendan increasingly authoritarian ruler repeatedly demonizes a minority group with false accusations, increases the illegal imprisonment and deportation of members of that minority group who dont have proper documentation in an effort to get people accustomed to the idea that something about this minority group is inherently criminal, starts essentially just questioning those minorities rights to exist at all, and then everything goes back to normal in six months or so.
In virtually every fascist regime throughout history, the creation of detention centers for a minority group is simply the first sign that those detention centers are about to go away. So we urge you not to judge the Trump administration for denying citizens passports based on race, as thats the sign that fascism is about to come to an end. Political scientists also reassured Americans that since a countrys descent into fascism virtually always just goes away on its own, there was absolutely no need for anyone to do anything.
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Political Scientists Reassure Americans That Stripping Minorities Of Citizenship (Original Post)
.99center
Aug 2018
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)1. The Onion.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)2. That one definitely needs an Onion warning
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)3. I know it is from The Onion
and I did read it all - I just couldn't laugh.
Simply couldn't.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)5. Bad Onion ...
yuck.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)6. It would be funny if people on this very board didn't believe it.