You don’t even need to go to lefty sources for this one…
https://twitter.com/ipm_main/status/1034875646856581120?s=21
https://twitter.com/ipm_main/status/1034882529420107776?s=21
https://twitter.com/ipm_main/status/1034903068276609024?s=21
I get a bit bugged by the use of Niemöller these days.
Everyone seems to forget the first half of it. “First they came”…for the political opposition. The ethnic genocide came later.
In Western pop-history, the massacre of the German socialists is almost invisible.
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Today’s Twitter split: white centrists rallying in defence of Jeff Sessions, Americans of colour justifiably horrified/disgusted, as per usual.
Isn’t Tucker Carlson pushng the idea that land reform in south Africa is “white genocide”? (Even if he’s not making the connection, he enables the Dylan Roofs and Donald Trumps to claim that eroding White supremacism in America could lead to “white genocide”.)
Probably; Tucker’s a fascist, and all of 'em are running that South African bullshit now.
This is what triggered today’s Tuckerstorm, I think:
He’s been pushing assorted right-populist shit for a while. For example: