ummmm???? do people forget that hitler’s rise to power didn’t START with the holocaust??? like it wasn’t like day one he became chancellor and said “okay from now on, all jews are going to be put into camps”. it started so much more subtle than that. he started with quietly and subtly removing jewish people from civil services, from government positions, then from the entertainment industry, then from being on radio, then from medicine and sciences, then from not letting them go to university, THEN the nuremberg laws that officially classified jewish people as outcasts. THEN Kristallnacht. THEN ghettos. and then THEN the rounding up into camps. this all happened over a span of YEARS.
dictatorship doesn’t arrive with a slimy red bow, dripping with venom. it comes promising to make your country better by putting the blame conveniently on the backs of people that are easy targets and slowly raises the temperature on them until it reaches a boiling point. make no mistake. these ARE the signs of fascism. don’t pretend that there’s an overreaction when there really REALLY isn’t.
Wannseekonferenz. The day the “final solution” was set into motion. 20th January 1942. Three years into WWII. Nine years after Hitler seized power.
it’s 👏 vital 👏 to👏 overreact👏👏👏
Overreacting to seemingly innocuous acts of racism and bigotry makes it harder for the bigger things to fly. It’s vital that we end fascist movement before they can gain power in the first place, and if fascism is taking power, it’s vital that we push back against every single human rights violation they attempt.
It always, always starts with
Democratic Backsliding.
Please Google it, it is essential that you recognise the signs.
Gold medal winners Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada celebrate during the victory ceremony for the Figure Skating Ice Dance Free Dance at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, February 20th.
They were the youngest team to win Olympic gold, they have two world titles and a body of work that pushed the boundaries of ice dancing - but what we’ll remember most,is how we felt when we watched them skate.
