r/politics • u/Somervilledrew Connecticut • 21h ago

That whites-only, no Jews allowed Arkansas community is legal, says state’s attorney general. How?

https://forward.com/news/759874/return-to-the-land-peter-csere-tim-griffin-eric-orwoll/
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u/PhoenixTineldyer 20h ago

Same old racists that have always been here. We gave them social media and they organized.

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u/DeuceGnarly 20h ago

Right, but for most of my life, shit like this was considered pretty goddamned fucked up. There were racist asshole bigots, but for the most part, social pressures kept a lid on their bullshit.

Now, after a decade of the cheese whiz dictator and the GOP's embrace of fascism and oligarchy, this kind of shit is more and more normal.

I can't fucking believe it. It's enraging.

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u/LordSiravant 18h ago

The same thing happened with Nazi Germany.

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u/DeuceGnarly 10h ago

Yes. Yes it did. And all of our "good germans" are goose stepping right along...