scarvesandcelery reblogged your post and added:
“Let’s just debate with the Nazis, we don’t need to resort to violence.”
Do people not understand how the 1930s played out?
I think that’s what’s truly troubling to me, and I think it’s a failing of American education, specifically. We act as though our own country is immune to fascism because “we’re America” or some shit. Because we were the ones who punched Nazis before (and the shameful heel dragging, plus the turning away of refugees is conveniently glossed over). We dismiss the struggles other countries went through with regards to white supremacist and/or fascist movements under this guise of “this is different.” “No, Trump is actually a moron.” This is what has been thought of every brutish autocrat that’s risen to power by the intellectual left, and guess what? We don’t fare so well in these times.
We are given history classes for a reason...