It’s come full circle. I wondered why some people supported Trump the first time, given his Nazi-adjacent vibes. Now that his ties are not even Nazi -adjacent but full Nazi, I have stopped wondering and assume anyone can be a Nazi. At least for now.
Yes, many times. You know in your guts that it is true. Now we really understand them, which is horrible. Yes, I always was perplexed by how it happens to people but it was much better than understanding it first hand.
Between her, Stephen Miller, and Netanyahu, there’s a woeful bumper crop of folks apparently either taking all the wrong lessons from history, or not bothering to learn it at all.
I think these ecosystems they're in work as big psychological shock absorbers. The longer they have time to deal with a vile affront, they can put their brains to work on rationalizing it away. Thinking about the mood shift of the Republican Congress members between Jan. 6 to a few weeks later.
Maybe it’s my upbringing, and I certainly didn’t know about conditional whiteness as a kid or young adult, but my parents grew up in the 40s and 50s in upstate New York, and they made it clear that while we were safe…it was always provisional. My father is 85. He’s so livid about history repeating.
Bari seemingly grew up with such privilege that despite the likelihood in the kind of regime she’s fostering the realization of, she has no belief whatsoever that she’s putting herself and her wife at risk (much less 100 million or more other Americans).
But also if you read her work when she was younger, and the writing of her sister who didn't get into an ivy the power thing is evident in how she was raised. She was raised to want MORE power and privilege (I'm not saying that was a community thing but her family specifically)
Ugh. I remember learning that Kate MacKinnon had dated her in college (no sin) but then was still friends with her and was at her book release several years ago (oh no).
but like ... her marriage could be rendered illegal. More likely, future marriages like hers could be rendered illegal. Somehow that ought to matter. I get it doesn't.
I wish I understood. It was like the ADL initially being “chill, Musk isn’t hitler saluting!” A good fraction of these people, and clearly Musk with the mask off, want to stuff us into ovens if they had the chance. Why is Weiss providing the gas?
anyway, it is what it is. she's raking in the rightwing billionaire cash and all the good people are sending invoices for $200 a piece that will be paid months late if at all.
It's bad enough that she's anti-trans but if she's now running an article justifying a Nazi salute, that's downright mind-boggling. (I won't give them clicks and Substack partnering with her is why I fully deleted my Substack newsletters)
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https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
She's also queer.
And a woman.
She doesn't care about anything about power.