I think, therefore, one can draw a lot of parallels to the current climate in the UK – this fear of immigrants (specifically with different skin colours, we’ve not advanced that much) and return to fascist separation that we’re also seeing in the USA. - ThreadSky

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omicronlyrae.bsky.social • 26 days ago

I think, therefore, one can draw a lot of parallels to the current climate in the UK – this fear of immigrants (specifically with different skin colours, we’ve not advanced that much) and return to fascist separation that we’re also seeing in the USA.

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omicronlyrae.bsky.social•26 days ago

Many people have drawn parallels to Germany in the 1920s and 30s but I would also consider South Africa in the late 1940s. By that point, a number of laws were in place to restrict Black people from ownership and equal rights, but under the British this had gone to a certain point and no further.

omicronlyrae.bsky.social•26 days ago

After independence, when the NP were able to gain power in the election, and then change a tonne of things very quickly to solidify their power and prevent ever losing it again. Even then, there was hope.

omicronlyrae.bsky.social•26 days ago

One has only to read my favourite South African book 'Cry, The Beloved Country' to see that people still thought it would be ok. And it wasn’t immediate. It took years.

omicronlyrae.bsky.social•26 days ago

The difference between then, and now, is the Internet. People can talk, unify, organise, and protest on a much larger scale, and now the weight of recent history is with them.

omicronlyrae.bsky.social•26 days ago

In 1962, when many Black citizens were massacred for daring to approach a police station in defiance of the Pass Laws, this was only known when and if media reported on it.

omicronlyrae.bsky.social•26 days ago

There was no BlueSky, no Instragram, no video recordings or photos. And the fact is, despite the right wing fascists attempting to pull the ‘What you think you saw, you did not see’ now there is simply too much evidence.

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