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In reply to the discussion: I'm sorry, I just don't get it. Why protest someone else's rally? [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)the resistance to the rise of the Third Reich, which incidentally looked like this.
Ok, replace Communist Party, Socialists and labor for BLM, Muslim students, and Hispanic Students. (We had a wider coalition). But people were resisting in the 1920s.
You might not accept the comparison, but anybody schooled in the rise of the Third Reich, or a series of other fascist governments, including Italy for example, this looks oddly familiar.
Look, I am running pieces that if Trump decides to go after media... we might be in trouble ok. But quite frankly, staying quiet is not a choice. As to the victim comment... well, not all goes exactly as it did in Nazi Germany. But the echoes are there. Oh and the Nazis did not have the SS protecting Adolph, they had the SA, and the SA did take Der Fuehrer out.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nsdap.html
This is not the best of sources, but this is so basic. I recommend getting a copy of the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and cuddling up to it. It still is a solid introduction.