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[transience@beige.party]

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#usa

Today it is immigrants. But if we look at history, we see that these purges never stop at one scapegoated demographic.

Fascists always need an enemy, a target, to retain their power.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Hitler’s regime went after not only Jewish adults, but also (and please correct me in Comments if 1) some of this terminology is incorrect, outdated, harmful or offensive and 2) I missed a group):

Roma and Sinti

Adults and children with disabilities (physical and mental, neurodivergents included)

Poles and other Slavic peoples

Soviet prisoners of war

Homosexual men

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Political opponents (e.g., Communists, Social Democrats)

Trade unionists

Freemasons

Black Germans

Clergy and religious dissenters

People labeled “asocials” (e.g., vagrants, homeless)

Habitual criminals and others deemed “undesirable”

Atheists

Jewish children

It’s time to take this seriously.

Source of Data: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Holocaust Encyclopedia, Yad Vashem (The World Holocaust Remembrance Center), Encyclopedia Britannica, entries on Nazism and the Holocaust
Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich trilogy, German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) historical materials.

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Here is a CURRENT simplified list of groups and demographics targeted by the current U.S. administration and right-wing groups, according to recent rhetoric, reports, official and unofficial statements and publications gathered by online search:

Undocumented immigrants

Asylum seekers

Refugees

DACA recipients

Muslim immigrants

Migrants from Latin America

Migrants from majority-nonwhite countries

LGBTQ+ people

Transgender people

Gender-nonconforming people

People of color

Black Americans

Latino/a Americans

Arab Americans

Muslim Americans

Progressive activists

Left-wing organizations

Civil rights organizations

Labor unions

Public school teachers

University faculty

Students involved in activism

Journalists

Media organizations critical of the administration

Federal civil servants

Whistleblowers

Protesters

DEI professionals and programs
“Woke” institutions or initiatives

Critical race theory proponents

Secularists

Non-Christian religious groups

Women seeking reproductive healthcare

Abortion providers

Environmental activists

Climate scientists

Voting rights organizations

Election workers

Judges viewed as non-aligned

Prosecutors viewed as non-aligned

(Damn!)

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