I read awhile ago that many sellers at farmers markets are white supremists because many are attracted to the back-to-the-land and self sufficiency movements.
Ernst Fraenkel, a German-Jewish labor rights activist who left Germany in 1938 spent the rest of his life trying to understand how Germany could so easily be transformed from a democracy into a dictatorship.
"Following the Nazi power grab, Fraenkel argued, a "normative state” continued to exist in Germany for quite some time, within which the established legal order still applied for the vast majority of citizens, private property was protected, and companies could continue operating with no hindrance in order to keep the capitalist economy up and running.
In parallel, however, a "prerogative state” developed, a state of "unlimited arbitrariness and violence” wielded against certain people and institutions, who were gradually stripped of their essential rights. The majority was able to convince themselves for an extended period that they would remain untouched by the excesses of state violence. Until the prerogative state ultimately pushed aside the normative state."
The murder of Charlie Kirk has fanned the flames of the Trump administration's lust for thought control. The hunt for his enemies and dissenters, long since begun, has entered a new and dangerous phase.
Then you have the opposite of the spectrum: the oppressed communities for whom all of this was the "normal". For them, seemingly nothing has changed - but more people are now willing to believe their lived experiences.
This has probably been overquoted by this point but, the Imperial Boomerang theory posits that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.
Hypothetical fifth panel: same as the fourth panel, except:
• “Two years later” • Same background (maybe gruel is more expensive) • White woman in foreground, no speech bubble • Man of color in foreground is gone
Paul Chernoff
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in reply to Paul Chernoff • • •Lethe
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •spiegel.de/international/world…
Ernst Fraenkel, a German-Jewish labor rights activist who left Germany in 1938 spent the rest of his life trying to understand how Germany could so easily be transformed from a democracy into a dictatorship.
"Following the Nazi power grab, Fraenkel argued, a "normative state” continued to exist in Germany for quite some time, within which the established legal order still applied for the vast majority of citizens, private property was protected, and companies could continue operating with no hindrance in order to keep the capitalist economy up and running.
In parallel, however, a "prerogative state” developed, a state of "unlimited arbitrariness and violence” wielded against certain people and institutions, who were gradually stripped of their essential rights. The majority was able to convince themselves for an extended period that they would remain untouched by the excesses of state violence. Until the prerogative state ultimately pushed aside the normative state."
America's Stricken Democracy: Trump's Thought Police Hit Their Stride
Jörg Schindler (DER SPIEGEL)Multi Purr Puss
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •Jen Sorensen
in reply to Multi Purr Puss • • •vignesh
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •Bogdan Buduroiu
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •This has probably been overquoted by this point but, the Imperial Boomerang theory posits that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial…
thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens, the concept originates with Aimé Césaire
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Stuart Marks
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •Hypothetical fifth panel: same as the fourth panel, except:
• “Two years later”
• Same background (maybe gruel is more expensive)
• White woman in foreground, no speech bubble
• Man of color in foreground is gone