[OP of "First they came for..."]
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The picture is of a carriage in front of a palace. The caption is "First they came for the black, and I didn't speak out, because I wasn't black. And then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out, because I wasn't a Jew. And then they realized that all the problems had pretty much been solved, so they stopped coming for people."
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And then they realized that all the problems had pretty much been solved, so they stopped coming for people. Ha. Ha. Ha.
Crisis and scapegoats are the live-blood of each and every extremist ideology.
No matter the specifics, the core is always the same:
“We are in dire circumstances, threatened by utterly evil enemies, and only drastic measures and paranoia against the Other can protect us.”
And in the rare case that one actually manages to solve the crisis or to eradicate the scapegoats, a new one will be found soon.
Because otherwise, the regime would lose its justification for existence.
@Bastethotep
Crisis and scapegoats are the live-blood of each and every extremist ideology.
In the 1920s, lily-white Maine had a Ku Klux Klan powerful enough to elect a governor.
They attacked the local French Canadians and other Catholics.
“And then they realized that all the problems had pretty much been solved, so they stopped coming for people.”
Apart from half of the rest of Europe, and then they declared war on the USA.
Oddly, there were blacks in Nazi Germany from start to finish. They didn’t exactly have a great life, but not being allowed to serve in the Wehrmacht has its advantages when your country is suffering the biggest defeat in recorded history.
First they came for the racists: I did not speak out, because I had no problem with Afro-Caribbeans, Asians etc.
Then they came for the anti-Semites: I did not speak out, because I was not a neo-Nazi.
And then they did not come for me: because I'm not an asshole.
That’s not how this sort of thing works jackass! fascist regimes need a scapegoat to survive, otherwise all the ‘doom and gloom’ nonsense starts making little and little sense to everyone who both bought into and forced to listen to the horseshit rhetoric. If they can’t find a group to put of all the problems in society on, they’ll just make a new group to point and say ‘THEY are the reasons why our nation sucks!’ (by which point all the problem of a nation can be given squarely in the hands of the fascists in control), or just invade someone else and if they’re no other notice ‘other’ left in the world…. proceed to eat themselves…. suddenly, your not white anymore if you have a slightly different hair or eye color, or nose size, or ear size or whatever reason… Authoritarians are the sort of people who get a natural high out of stripping people’s rights… and they won’t stop even if it doesn’t make a lick of sense anymore.
(be warned, I use the slurs for this, given this sort of people, they probably don’t give a rats ass about using them or not)
“First they came for the Niggers
and I cheered
Second they came for the spics
and I gladly partook in it
Third they came for the Kikes
and I enjoyed killing the greedy Jews for ruining my nation
Fourth they came for the Fags
and I killed more then enough perverts to fill hell up
Fifth they came for the catholic
and I was confused
Sixth they came for Irish
and I was at a lost
Seventh they came for the Eastern Europeans, Italians and Spanish
and I grew concerned
Then they came for me, because my black hair was an indicator of my… non-whiteness
and now, I am waiting for my death… in the camps they killed so many other people, realizing far too late
due to my youthful idiocy or plan old stubbornness
That I sighed my death warrant, because my ego… wouldn’t allow me to consider that I had faults.”
First they came for the KKK, because they were Kommitting Kopius Krimes.
Then they came for the Neo-Nazis, because they were promoting genocide and engaging in heinous acts of terror.
Then… they did not come for the incels, the MRAs, or any other breed of manospherian, except for individuals who engaged in illegal activities motivated by their ideologies, which most didn’t, because they were too busy acting like whiny assholes.
And then the White Supremacist Wingnuts spoke out, but it didn’t matter, because they still had full free speech rights and political privileges and were in no real danger of losing them, plus there were no other potential targets. So the Wingnuts revolted, because no one was taking them seriously…
What will happen next? Who knows.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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