cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/65164
In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…
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I can hate them and not be actively trying to take away their freedoms. I can hate them, and see them as humans. That’s the difference. Republican politicians dehumanize the “other” to make their racism, fascism, and the attack on civil liberties more “palatable”.