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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.bsky.social |
A lot of Americans do know what it's like to live under an authoritarian regime. My parents do. Many immigrants ended up in the US because they were fleeing authoritarianism (sometimes US backed). Offhand Haitians, Dominicans, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, Koreans all know.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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Many Black Americans are one generation away from formal authoritarianism. That's not how we often talk about policies like Jim Crow but that's what it was.
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Faine Greenwood
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I know - I’ve been trying to qualify the “many” thing as much as possible in my various posts about this, in that I’d say probably the *majority* of Americans don’t have direct experience with authoritarian regimes, but of course lots and lots of Americans do.
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quick13
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This is a good report on the transformation to Authoritarianism worldwide. It may just mean a concentration of powers to the Executive Branch or full on dictatorship. bti-project.org/en/reports/g...
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Pavel
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I suspect that Americans born here truly underestimate how new democracy is even among the "free world" - even ignoring former Communist regimes, our allies Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, etc were dictatorships in living memory!
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Megaweapon
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Any Eastern European immigrant born before the 1980s.
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the feminine urge to 🔪 when wrath arrives
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The wildest thing about this is that i know some elder immigrants who fled authoritarianism who were brainwashed into "communism = bad" that they impulsively vote republican And continue to do so in defiance of everything they see because that training is so deep
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