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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMany people assume the holocaust could never happen again. How do we know it hasn't started already?
How will we know if the people who are violently arrested without due process, separated from their loved ones, chained and shackled, treated as less than human, and deported from America to hellhole concentration camps in El Salvador, and soon in other nations, aren't going to be gassed to death?
Scrivener7
(59,330 posts)Johnny2X2X
(24,067 posts)I know of no cases in history where what is happening in the US right now did not lead to the discovery of mass graves.
We have a secret police rounding people up with absolutely no oversight. They're above the legal system and answer to 1 man, and that man has spent years telling everyone who will listen that immigrants are animals, terrorists, rapists, and basically the cause to all of the country's problems. Furthermore, these people being rounded up are being shipped to secret prison camps with virtually no oversight whatsoever and these prison camps are getting bonuses for throughput.
Doodley
(11,860 posts)kerry-is-my-prez
(10,262 posts)And what happened to the people who were at Alligator Alcatraz??? Its being reported that they dont know where any of them went.
EdmondDantes_
(1,678 posts)I think the biggest reasons to think we haven't taken those steps are the Trump administration's incompetence would suggest they couldn't manage that, and that they leak like a sieve and we haven't gotten reporting on it.
Doodley
(11,860 posts)Jack Valentino
(4,880 posts)starting at the head of the snake, and moving its way down from there....
LostOne4Ever
(9,747 posts)Many did know and tried to pretend it wasnt happening:
raccoon
(32,353 posts)sent to a camp themselves.
mopinko
(73,585 posts)more money for the profiteers.
yep yep.
Kaleva
(40,324 posts)Blue Full Moon
(3,387 posts)In the Epstein files, Hollywood producer Barry Josephson emailed Epstein: "I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"
rampartd
(4,502 posts)well you start with an economy that works for everyone, with equal justice under the law, and with programs to help housing education and health.
what is wrong with rese people?
WarGamer
(18,517 posts)I think your statement is hyperbolic.
The very anti-Trump ADL has come out recently saying comparisons of Trump to the holocaust "denigrates the memory of the 6 million and trivializes the horrific events of the Holocaust".
https://www.adl.org.il/en/news/adl-condemns-president-trumps-remarks/#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20rationalizing%20white,The%20American%20people%20deserve%20better.
These comparisons are ahistorical and somewhat ignorant tbh
Tetrachloride
(9,573 posts)2016-2000 immigrants
and collateral damage in pandemic area
exact terminology I leave to others
TheProle
(3,970 posts)but the "Never Again" bullshit never was...
Bangladesh Genocide up to 3 million
Cambodian Genocide up to 3 million
Blockade of Biafra 1million +
Stat tallying up those from African Civil Wars, and you easily get into the millions there as well.
WarGamer
(18,517 posts)We can open a 4000 year window and see a thousand genocides including the Romans vs the Jews which killed 30% of all Jews alive at the time...
choie
(6,879 posts)I dont believe the OP is being hyperbolic at all.
Doodley
(11,860 posts)Doodley
(11,860 posts)Doodley
(11,860 posts)following the same playbook as Hitler in the 1930s in using nationalism, scapegoating minorities, the cult of personality, undermining norms and laws, and media, grabbing power, trying to silence critics, using violence against perceived enemies? Yes, and we don't know how far that will go. I married a Jew and honestly, to not recognize the similarities means we have not learned from the past.
iemanja
(57,739 posts)Rwanda, Gaza, the Congo, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Cambodia, Armenia. The ADL doesnt take a human rights stand on anything except anti-semitism.
Calling the ADL very anti-Trump is inaccurate. They have supported ICE deportations of Palestinians and, to my knowledge, have been mute on his current human rights abuses in the sense they have not denounced them.
choie
(6,879 posts)talking about the horrors of other genocides trivializes the Holocaust. Theres a similar attitude when its mentioned that there were other victims of the Holocaust such as the homosexual population. I dont understand why there has to be a contest.
purr-rat beauty
(1,201 posts)They would be one if not the loudest voice out there. Prob got ties to Epstein, nothing surprises me now.
Initech
(108,490 posts)That was the final step. We're way past the midway point on this.
Doodley
(11,860 posts)Initech
(108,490 posts)ananda
(34,939 posts)Hmmm?
Tree Lady
(13,231 posts)Are doing in the camps.
Iggo
(49,879 posts)Last edited Fri Feb 6, 2026, 01:18 PM - Edit history (1)
Seems a lot like whats going on in this country.
Ill see if I can find it
Here it is:
Takket
(23,665 posts)We are going to find mass graves behind the concentration camps no one is allowed in, when the camps are liberated. Many reports of deaths already and those are the reports that actually get out. You cant tell me many more arent dying and just being buried out back.
Iggo
(49,879 posts)pnwest
(3,459 posts)That ICE is buying up all over the place? Gotta put all the journalists, dissenters and brown people somewhere
Iggo
(49,879 posts)Just gotta keep the rest of us quiet until they get them on the trains. (Sound familiar?)
pnwest
(3,459 posts)And as has been proven many times over the last 10 years, every time they say we're exaggerating - turns out we're not.
Kaleva
(40,324 posts)Mostly nonwhites are the victims so it doesnt get much attention.
LetMyPeopleVote
(178,623 posts)0rganism
(25,577 posts)Someday maybe, but we've got some growing up to do as a species first.