Seth Cotlar
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Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
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![acquiesce with putting asylum-seeking brown children in prison because their parents supposedly committed a misdemeanor offense?
Again, I hope you will never have to make such a decision, but it's worth preparing now in case you do.
Twenty years ago I would have had zero doubts that most of my Republican friends and fellow citizens would have defended my right to non-violently protest a Republican administration...to be totally honest, I'm not sure I feel so confident about that anymore. The more a leader drains away the bonds of civic solidarity that cross lines of party or ethnicity or race, the more they amplify their power and sow the seeds for authoritarianism. America's long history of racism has already made those bonds of civic solidarity weak and unreliable. Here's hoping we don't let this hate-mongering President break us even further...because, believe me my Republican friends and fellow citizens, I might really hate the fact that you voted for Trump, but I care about and respect you far more than that billionaire celebrity narcissist does.
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Jun 23, 2018 • 6
#politicsmk (fascism) [Posted by Ric Steinberger.
TNX Ric - valuable warning.]... See more
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• aways been so careful to guard.
Thinking about the end of Weimar democracy in this way—as the result of a large protest movement colliding with complex patterns of elite self-interest, in a culture increasingly prone to aggressive mythmak-ing and irrationality-strips away the exotic and foreign look of swastika banners and goose-stepping Stormtroopers. Suddenly, the whole thing looks close and familiar. (Alongside the viciousness of much of German politics in the Weimar years was an e](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:miczfsfixolk42l7343z3bpd/bafkreig7ten25prswvojgusd3tyubsvcrdj3jgoohyfn4ywcvmhf4uilau@jpeg)
![Mich Kabay • Follow Jun 23, 2018 •
#politicsmk (fascism) [Posted by Ric Steinberger.
TNX Ric - valuable warning.]... See more
- Permanently
- aways been so careful to guard.
Thinking about the end of Weimar democracy in this way—as the result of a large protest movement colliding with complex patterns of elite self-interest, in a culture increasingly prone to aggressive mythmak-ing and irrationality-strips away the exotic and foreign look of swastika banners and goose-stepping Stormtroopers. Suddenly, the whole thing looks close and familiar. Alongside the viciousness of much of German politics in the Weimar years was an incongruous innocence: few people could imagine the worst possibilities. A civilized nation could not possibly vote for Hitler, some had thought. When he became chancellor nonetheless, millions expected his time in office to be short and ineffectual. Germany was a notoriously law-abiding as well as cultured land. How could a German government systematically brutalize its own people? German Jews were highly assimilated and patriotic. Many refused to leave their homeland, even as things got worse and worse.
"I am German and am waiting for the Germans to come back; they-have gone to ground somewhere," Victor Klemperer wrote in his diary— he was the son of a rabbi and a veteran of the First World War who chose to stay, and miraculously survived.
Few Germans in 1933 could imagine Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or the death marches of the last months of the Second World War. It is hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them, and they were catastroph-cally wrong about their future. We who come later have one advantage over them: we have their example before us.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:miczfsfixolk42l7343z3bpd/bafkreicbzobl26kj64fyohxeaaqfjeyms5aqbv56sthhvp4bcno7ncufiy@jpeg)
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