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Michael Bazemore@deepwatermike.bsky.social |
I keep telling people that if we want to know what American fascism will look like we don't need to look at Nazi Germany, or fictional dystopias like Gilead. We only need to look at the American South c. 1870-1965. This is not to absolve other places; the South was where it was most complete.
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Wendell B
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Recent book Biography of X was good on this.
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Jim Vandewalker
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The only thing I'd disagree with here is your cut-off date.
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Drew Kadel
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Yes. And while we appreciate the hell it was for Black Americans there, it's important how it distorted life for anyone who dissented from the authoritarian racist regime in place--it defeated the spirit of many, others fled, others suffered. It was similar in Nazi Germany which WASN'T a cartooon+
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Lux in the Bronx 🎗️
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It annoys me when people use The Handmaids Tale as an example. It's not helpful. The story of "Plucky white woman improbably manages to survive fascist dystopia" makes a lot of people think they're going to be Offred in a future crisis. They won't.
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