So his dad comes from Germany. That doesn't make him not American af, or his brand of fascism any less homegrown and authentic
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People trying to make this stuff feel foreign, as though Hitler wasn't inspired by Henry Ford and hadn't studied US Jim Crow laws for ideas
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Trump is no more and no less American than the people he attacks and if we can't admit that we can't move forward
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I mean lets not forget that anti-fascist anger in the US was directly harnessed to enact fascist policies vs Japanese-Americans
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The worst thing abt how incoherent our WWII Discourse is is how condemning Unit 731 and EO 9066 at once gets read as somehow a contradiction
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The irony that a fairly high percentage of Issei came to the US *because* Imperial Japan was monstrous and they were fleeing fascism
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That we imprisoned people whose families were here in the first place because they heard and believed the hype about liberal Western values
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I guess I wish more people took the step and a half back to see how cyclical this shit is
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Like how obvious and predictable it honestly is that the fascist fire is spreading fastest in the former Allies
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Look as someone with Chinese heritage this is a big issue for me
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In China it never fails to get people's blood flowing to repeat the - justified and true - talking points abt Nanking and Unit 731
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And not talk about how after the Japanese left the very next order of business was a massive civil war
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Installing a regime that killed more Chinese, enslaved more Chinese and - fuck - burned more Chinese culture and history than Japan ever did
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