The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum wants to make sure that fascism doesn’t make a comeback.
A Twitter user snapped a shot of a poster from somewhere inside the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Judging by dollar sign symbol in the lower right hand corner, the sign looks to be a poster for sale.
The poster is derived from a 2003 article detailing the potential warning signs of an incoming fascist regime. Read more.
I would venture that Trump’s abuse of his political platform to discredit valid independent news outlets counts some way towards ‘control of the mass media’. He doesn’t have to gag anyone, he just has invalidate agencies with dissenting voices.
Also Trump understand better than most of his contemporaries what mass media actually IS these days. His use of Social Media doesn’t exactly resemble the things we think of re. dictators controlling TV stations etc. But media works differently now, and Trump is subverting these new rules too to his own end.
No no no no no. I wholeheartedly endorse punching, kicking and otherwise bringing the punishment to nazis. I live in a place that is full of plaques, statues and other
landmarks
that remind us all of exactly how important it is to do these things. Nazis were here. People were deported from here. I have no time for ideological waffling about whether it is ~right~ to punch a nazi
But
If you can’t punch a nazi. Because you’re puny and they’re big, or because you’re disabled and can’t run away, or because the risk of being arrested is too great/would potentially ruin you, or for whatever reason that is stopping you from standing up to nazis?
This is something you cando. You can stop them from being heard, and in the process really ruin their day. You can make your environment hostile to them. And you can send a message to everybody around you that nazi speech will get no voice, and that they do not have to stand there and be subjected to it. Who knows, next time you might have a bunch of people joining in.
And if you think blowing a vuvuzela is ‘tooting’ then you’ve clearly never had one blown at you.
In light of recent events, here is a picture of Spock nerve pinching the SHIT out of some nazi scum.
There is more to this than ‘Spock takes out a Nazi’. Shatner and Nimoy are Jewish. They specifically reqired that Spock and Kirk had to defeat the Nazis. This was just about 25 years after the Holocaust. It was still fresh in everyone’s memory. This episode was a condemnation of the Nazi party and sympathizers. It wasn’t some half assed Nazi AU shows like to so much. This was a dialog.
I don’t think people in the US got this as much as we did over here in Europe and the rest of the football (as opposed to hand-egg) loving world. But this:
is a vuvuzela. The football loving (or just tolerating, or culturally affected by) world met these things en masse during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. They were mass produced, they were fucking everywhere. They sound like this:
Over wide open terrain, perfect to summon your people for say, village council, which was what the original instrument was apparently used for. The plastic mass produced thing, in close terrain, is perfect to make it impossible for anybody to hear themselves think, let alone speak. Could it be perfect to disrupt a nazi, for instance if you are not able, for whatever reason, to punch him in the face? My friends, it just might be. Because these things were so heavily mass produced, at one point they couldn’t give them away. There is almost certainly still bunches of them sitting around waiting for the opportune moment, and the opportune moment is now.
If you’re someplace where nazis come to hate speechify (campus etc) get one. You don’t have to be super close for these things to be super effective, which is helpful if you’re not willing/able to get close up in somebody’s face – the damn things are just as disruptive from ten metres away.
It’s Vuvuzela revival time.
(Alternatively, I’ve seen collapsible ones on ebay and aliexpress for $2.50 and free shipping. Just saying)
Do you want to be this cool? Only with minimal investment and musical talent?
Vuvuzela Uprising 2017
What about shofars? Obnoxiously loud, sounds like an elephant, and Jewish as fuck. To offend the Nazis even more
….yes. Excellent. If you have one you feel comfortable bringing into such a situation, blast those things with all the air you’ve got in you.
As a side note, since my proposal for the Vuvuzela Revival seems to have taken off a little, please wear earplugs when you do this sort of thing, and please bring a load of those simple yellow foam earplugs for the people around you too. Vuvuzelas are somewhat directional, but you should still be careful of your fellow protesters and their ears.
Nazis though, fuck those guys in the earholes. They can go deaf.
In May 1939, as the Nazis were tightening their chokehold on Europe, the United States government rejected the SS St. Louis, a German passenger vessel carrying 937 refugees who were trying to dock at the Port of Miami.
Almost all of those refugees were Jews fleeing violence in Germany and Eastern Europe, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The ship was eventually forced to return to Europe, where 254 of its passengers were killed.
On Friday, to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a pair of Jewish scholars — Russel Neiss and Charlie Schwartz — started tweeting the names of the people who were aboard the SS St. Louis, under the handle @Stl_Manifest. Read more
this years holocaust remembrance day is very important, given the current political climate. take today to remember the horrifying acts committed against jewish and romani people. take today to recognize the beginning of those same acts forming against PoC in america today. take today to resist those in power however you see fit, and after today, dont stop resisting. i am a jew still personally affected by the holocaust even 2 generations later. every jew is affected by the shoah, but there is a special pain to know what happened to your own family. or worse, not knowing what happened to the unknown people you see in old family photographs. we as a people will never be the same. remember the holocaust today. dont let this happen again.
non-jews are absolutely allowed/encouraged to reblog this
Since there are no date stamps on tumblr I wanted to add that Holocaust Remembrance Day is today. Jan 27th.
Forceful resistance works. Going after them and revealing their ugly faces to the public works. Punching them in the jaw works. Showing them no mercy works. Make.Them.Tremble.
My mother told me that violence was never the answer.
My mother told me I was handsome; you can’t always listen to your mother.
What happened to letting the other guy throw the first punch?
Nazis don’t throw the first punch. Nazis burn the first Reichstag.
Aren’t the Left supposed to be the tolerant ones?
Supposed to be the smart ones, too, but they keep falling for that “I
thought you were supposed to be the tolerant ones” horseshit.
What about dialogue?
Dialogue is for reasonable people acting in good faith. Dialogue is
between two acceptable positions. “Taxes need to be raised” vs. “taxes
need to be lowered” is grounds for dialogue. “Taxes need to be raised”
vs. “Jews should be thrown in ovens” is grounds for a beating.
But isn’t this sinking to their level?
That depends. After you punch the Nazi, do you espouse the tenets of National Socialism?
No.
Then you’re better than a Nazi.
But doesn’t this just give the other side ammunition?
The other side in this argument are lying fucks who can twist any
piece of information into a swastika-shaped balloon animal if you engage
them in good faith; lacking a piece of information, they’ll just make
shit up. Might as well punch a Nazi.
What about peace, love, and understanding?
Great goals, and once we get rid of the Nazis we can get to work on
them. All three are completely impossible when Nazis are about.
When should you punch a Nazi?
Whenever you get a chance. Preferably when they’re not looking.
What if they’re smaller than you?
Hit them with your fist.
What if they’re bigger?
Hit them with a bat.
Isn’t this a slippery slope?
After we defeated the Nazis in World War II, did we keep shooting people or did the troops come home and start having babies?
The second thing.
There you go. The slippery slope argument is nine times out of ten
bullshit. Human beings are good with slippery slopes: we build stairs.
What if you think you’re punching a Nazi, but you just hit a white guy with a shitty haircut?
Run.
What should you do if you hit a Nazi?
You should run then, too. Don’t get me wrong: punching Nazis is still illegal. We’re discussing morality.
But I don’t want to punch anyone.
Then get off your duff, mister, and give aid and support to the boys on the front lines. We’re all in this together. Again.
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