That’s what you’re complaining about? You guys are fucking lucky that people aren’t just walking up to you and shooting you in the head. It wouldn’t be murder either. Murder is killing humans, which you aren’t. So, piss in a bottle you little bitches.

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    Fuck ICE, but stop saying they aren’t human. For one thing, their cruelty and depravity should stand as a reminder of what the worst of humanity is capable of. But more than that, dehumanization of one’s enemy is the first step toward radicalism. How else do you think they came to have their own terrible views?

    They weren’t born like this. They were made this way.

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      I agree. The complacent myth that the Nazis were subhuman monsters and not people like us is part of what got us this resurgence of fascism. We need to admit that the worst people are more like us than we’re comfortable with.

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        I sometimes fear that
        people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
        worn by grotesques and monsters

        as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.

        Fascism arrives as your friend.
        It will restore your honour,
        make you feel proud,
        protect your house,
        give you a job,
        clean up the neighbourhood,
        remind you of how great you once were,
        clear out the venal and the corrupt,
        remove anything you feel is unlike you…

        It doesn’t walk in saying,
        “Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution.”

        • Michael Rosen

        https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html?m=1

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          If it wasn’t for that click noice meme, I wouldn’t have clicked this. I wouldn’t have read all of this man’s thoughts.

          To think he’s been blogging this whole time is unreal.

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        People don’t stop being people just because they’re terrible. That just makes them terrible people. Never forget that the capacity for evil lives in all of us.

        Furthermore, the only real purpose of claiming someone has “lost their humanity” is as a justification for treating them as less than human. Which is precisely why you and I despise them in the first place.

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      I am merely doing unto them what they have been doing unto us. The saying is “do unto others as you would have done unto you.” I’m merely doing that, but from reverse.

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        I see, so you actually want them to dehumanize you?

        Because the actual saying is “do onto others as you would have them do onto you”, i.e. in plain English, “treat others as you would like to be treated yourself”.