“Freedom“ written by Sophie Scholl on the back of her indictment paper
White Rose - Leaflet 2 (1942): "It is impossible to engage in intellectual discourse with National Socialist Philosophy..."
"For if there were such an entity, one would have to try by means of analysis & discussion either to prove its validity or to combat it. In actuality we face a [different] situation. At its very inception this movement depended on the deception and betrayal of one's fellow man.”
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The Chinese Exclusion Act and the Geary Act are the origins of the exclusionary concept of "illegal immigration" (based on ethnicity/race) in U.S. history. The former was heavily influenced by an Irish immigrant and the latter was authored by a second-generation Irish American.
In 1850 there were slaveowners with the surname “Reilly” in Mississippi, Washington D.C., Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina and Virginia.
While Bill O'Reilly's ancestors became naturalised U.S. citizens without restriction, the Supreme Court Dred Scott ruling of 1857 declared that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, were not and could never be citizens of the United States.
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It benefits the far-right
if Nazi Germany is viewed
as an anomalous outlier
rather than an
ethno-nationalist model
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“Cultural Marxism" is a derivative
of "Cultural Bolshevism", a Nazi term used to label all perceived threats to the "purity" of the Herrenvolk
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Nazism was partly influenced by the
work of American white supremacists, eugenicists and official racist U.S. immigration policies.
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The reductionist fallacy of “slavery is slavery” should be strongly resisted in this context as racialised chattel slavery in the Americas was arguably unique in world history and its legacies still affect millions of people.
Compare, yes. Equate, never. Be specific, always.
“I saw the play myself and saw the casting in the context that slavery doesn’t have only one color, it wasn’t just in the cotton fields”
Such historical erasure is also used by racists to try to reduce racial slavery to just another form of forced labour nytimes.com/2018/07/12/art…
"Political Correctness" is a politically correct term for anti-racism, anti-sexism and anti-fascism.
"Cultural Marxism" is a far-right conspiracy theory and a derivative of "Cultural Bolshevism", a term used by the Nazis to describe all perceived threats to the moral and cultural "purity" of the Herrenvolk.
Ron Paul: "In a multitude of ways, [Murray] Rothbard's work has given not only me but all of us the ammunition we need to fight for the American dream of liberty and prosperity for all mankind."
United States Supreme Court: "A free negro of the African race, whose ancestors were brought to this country and sold as slaves, is not a "citizen" within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States." (1857)
U.S. Supreme Court: “If the applicant is a white person within the meaning of this section he is entitled to naturalization; otherwise not.” (1923)
“[We do not] suggest the slightest question of racial superiority or inferiority. What we suggest is merely racial difference, and it is of such character and extent that the great body of our people instinctively recognize it and reject the thought of assimilation.”
This biblical passage was used by the Dutch Refomed Church in Apartheid South Africa. It was also used by some Christian denominations in Nazi Germany to justify accommodation with the Third Reich.