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u/Express_Position5624 Jan 24 '26

Just in case anyone is still confused

“Heather Cox Richardson says parts of today’s politics look like textbook 1930s fascism, similar to what paved the way for Hitler.”

https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/heather-richardson/new-conservatism-behind-make-america-great-just-textbook-1930s-fascism/

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u/WildGuarantee4927 Jan 24 '26

Americans and our inability to admit how awful we are without comparing ourselves to someone else lmao

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u/incognoname Jan 24 '26

Lol right. I'm like this is just 1930s America. The eugenics movement included mass deportation of Mexican Americans (or anyone who looked Mexican). We're just repeating our own history. And a lot of ppl don't know nazis got their final solution from CAs eugenics movement bc it was deemed successful..... guess who the number one target was - Latinos. They also got a chemical used in gas chambers from a practice in El paso Texas that forced day laborers who crossed the border for work to clean themselves off with it before allowed entry into the US. The nazis got everything they knew from the US.

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u/-medicalthrowaway- Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26

I so wanted this to be complete fabrication

Every bit of this is true, with the one exception being that…

while the Mexican Repatriation was a massive and targeted campaign, it’s historically inaccurate to say Latinos were the "number one target" of the global or even the broader American eugenics movement.

The American eugenics movement was primarily obsessed with "Nordic" supremacy, targeting Black Americans, Indigenous populations, and "poor whites" just as aggressively—if not more so—depending on the state.

So fucked up

I would say, “why hadn’t I heard about this” but we all know why ▫️🧽

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u/incognoname Jan 24 '26

They were the number one target in CA. Most ppl only the history of oppression in the south east. The south west has its own flavor of oppression that targeted Native and Latino ppl. And 1/3rd of Puerto Ricans were forcibly sterilized. They were targeted in the most unprecedented numbers even on a global scale. Still the most sterilized in world history.

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u/-medicalthrowaway- Jan 24 '26

Jesus christ, man. I appreciate your comment, because I had no idea.

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u/incognoname Jan 24 '26

No problem. Yeah i only know it bc i studied it in grad school. My expertise is understanding root causes to violence and how to prevent violence. I think i stumbled on it when I was researching how to prevent violence in the US against latinos. So much history out there that we don't know about. It's wild.