The 'banality of evil' described by political theorist Hannah Arendt is taking hold in the United States.
What she saw in Hitler’s Germany, we can see in Trump’s America.
#Nazis #TrumpMusk #Deportations #Fascism #Coup #Dehumanization #Immigrants #Racism #USPol
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-10/hannah-arendt-germany-hitler
UPDATE: The Danish Club of Ottawa has released a statement re: Bente Nielsen's Islamophobic, racist post.
UPDATE: The Danish Club of Ottawa has released a statement re: Bente Nielsen's Islamophobic, racist post.
It’s begun.
The #SocialSecurity Admin this week entered the names & SSNs of >6,000 mostly Latino immigrants into a database it uses to track #dead people, effectively #erasing their ability to receive #benefits or #work legally in the #UnitedStates….
The move, requested by #DHS Secy [& dog killer] #KristiNoem, is aimed at putting pressure on the #undocumented immigrants to leave the country.
#trump #law #immigration #dehumanization #labor
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/10/self-deportation-immigrants-social-security-dead/
#Islamophobia #Racism #Dehumanization
“Arabs shouldn’t be allowed in any luxury restaurant” - Bente Nielsen is Director of the Danish Club of #Ottawa
You can let the club know what you think of their Islamophobic, racist director at: 
info@danishclubottawa.ca
#Islamophobia #Racism #Dehumanization
“Arabs shouldn’t be allowed in any luxury restaurant” - Bente Nielsen is Director of the Danish Club of #Ottawa
You can let the club know what you think of their Islamophobic, racist director at: info@danishclubottawa.ca
The goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts & credit cards, along w/their access to government benefits.
The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing #SocialSecurity’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the govt believes should be TREATED AS IF THEY ARE DEAD.
"#ICE director says #deportations should be run like ‘#Amazon Prime for human beings’"
Jesus fucking Christ
The #sadism has no bottom. #Dehumanization is the gleeful loudly announced goal
All of the bigots and morons out there will love it or not care
None of this is going to end well, there is some really scary shit coming
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon
#Dehumanization is their goal.
Marina Dunbar: #Ice director says deportations should be run like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’: Todd Lyons said he wanted US #immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
#ToddLyons #deportation #avelo #militaryindustrialcomplex
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon
Dehumanization has become so normal these days I'm starting to wonder what species I'm gonna be this week and whether or not I'm a pest.
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #blockade / #humanitarianaid / #uno / #dehumanization
„United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Tuesday that Gaza had become "a killing field" because Israel has continued to block aid, an accusation an Israeli official quickly denied, saying there was "no shortage" of aid.“
When we learn about the #Holocaust, what is most terrifying and disturbing about it is the #dehumanization, the total #domination & the exercise of arbitrary violence.
We feel the terror in our bones.
And we are now seeing it play out in Palestine every single day.
Norman Finkelstein articulates his deep revulsion towards the genocidal attitudes that permeate Israeli society, noting that these sentiments are not only openly shared but celebrated within #media and public discourse.
He critiques the alarming hierarchy placed on the value of lives in #gaza, highlighting how this #dehumanization justifies violence against its inhabitants.
#palestine #CrimesAgainstHumanity
Video credit (snippet): Muslim Central
Palestine Talks: In Conversation with Josie Guilbeau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJA8zNOjCDg
Former US intelligence officer and anti-war activist, Josie Guilbeau, discusses the connection between her socio-economic circumstances and her joining the US Army. She also discusses the anti-Arab racism, dehumanizing culture of Israel, and how a recent interrogation by Israeli authorities strengthened her outspoken pro-Palestinian activism.
#israel #palestine : #war / #detainee / #dehumanization
„A nurse, a civil servant and a teacher, among thousands of Palestinians detained without charges, were not informed their relatives had died in Israeli attacks.“
See also:
»'He insisted we take him to the graves’: the Palestinian hostages coming home to catastrophe«
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/30/palestinian-hostages-israeli-prison-coming-home-catastrophe
20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend #Democracy from #Authoritarianism, According to Yale #Historian #TimothySnyder
in History | January 20th, 2017
"Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of #totalitarianism during the 1930s and 40s. Among his long list of appointments and publications, he has won multiple awards for his recent international bestsellers '#Bloodlands: Europe between #Hitler and #Stalin' and last year’s 'Black Earth: The #Holocaust as History and Warning.' That book in part makes the argument that #Nazism wasn’t only a #German #nationalist movement but had global #colonialist origins—in #Russia, #Africa, and in the #UnitedStates, the nation that pioneered so many methods of human extermination, #racist #dehumanization, and ideologically-justified #LandGrabs.
"The hyper-#capitalism portrayed in the U.S.—even during the Depression—Snyder writes, fueled Hitler’s imagination, such that he promised Germans 'a life comparable to that of the American people,' whose 'racially pure and uncorrupted' German population he described as 'world class.' Snyder describes Hitler’s ideology as a myth of racialist struggle in which 'there are really no values in the world except for the stark reality that we are born in order to take things from other people.' Or as we often hear these days, that acting in accordance with this principle is the 'smart' thing to do. Like many far right figures before and after, Hitler aimed to restore a state of nature that for him was a perpetual state of race war for imperial dominance."
https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/20-lessons-from-the-20th-century-about-how-to-defend-democracies-from-authoritarianism.html
#History #Histodon #Hitler #Fascism #Authoritarianism #HyperCapitalism #CorporateFascism #CorporateColonialism
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #psychology / #trauma / #dehumanization / #interview
„The Israeli writer has published a new book reflecting on the power of fiction in a country at war with Hamas. In an interview with Le Monde, he bemoans the fact that Palestinians are no longer considered human beings, but 'faceless enemies.‘“
So as I mentioned yesterday, I'd like to share this Majority Report interview with trans actress Laverne Cox about the fascist assault on trans rights, the dehumanization of trans people, and how what I've come to define as the anti-trans pogrom fits in to the larger capitalist, patriarchal, white supremacist, and ultimately fascist project. While Cox is a well informed, focused, and insightful guest that's worth listening to in any setting, as a trans woman one of the things I liked best about this interview is how the two cisgender hosts of the show allowed her to control the discussion and ultimately create a conversation that I think is equally valuable for trans people, other members of the LGBTQ community, and cis-het folks who want to serve as accomplices, not just allies, for a trans community in the fascist crosshairs as we speak.
Cox and the hosts discuss the recent history of anti-trans legislation, the larger fascist quest to eras trans people in public life, and how dehumanizing language and anti-trans propaganda serve as a permission structure for both eliminating trans people's civil rights and further dehumanization. They also talk about the reality that this project to justify and create the anti-trans pogrom is a well-funded, highly coordinated endeavor with architects across the entire American right, as demonstrated by the fact that almost everything to demonize, oppress, and erase trans people that GOP fascists have accomplished since Trump took office, was laid out in advance in Project 2025. Cox even articulates what most trans people already know in their hearts but many cis liberals treating us like a political football don't seem to understand; that the path the fascists are adopting here may lead to the genocide of trans people.
The group then shifts focus to talk about the relationship between the anti-trans pogrom, white supremacist patriarchal Christian Nationalism, and a larger fascist project that ultimately serves to enrich and empower predatory capital. Cox notes that what folks who aren't on the firing lines call a "culture war" is really about civil rights for those who are. The gang points out that policing of trans people in public life, is really just an extension of an ideology that views women as property, and that opens up a pathway to gendered power dynamics and enforced policies that harm *all* women, not just trans women. As both Cox and Vigland note, the fact that dehumanizing anti-trans propaganda ultimately serves as the thin end of the wedge for this larger fascist project and touches on other forms of targeted oppression towards non-white people, women, migrants, and young people, means that taking about the anti-trans pogrom is not a distraction, but rather a vital step towards defending us all from fascism.
Finally Cox talks about the importance of folks who support trans people actually rehumanizing trans folks in the broader culture, why allowing the right to force the discussion into a lens of medicalization is an unworkable strategy, and why nobody who isn't trying to get trans people murdered should be "consorting with the likes of Charlie Kirk." In a moment that may come as a surprise to cis people, she points out that even conceding to the idea that trans identities, trans rights, or trans existence are topics to debate, is an unacceptable level of dehumanization and helps the fascist cause. As Cox poignantly notes, "there is no middle ground when someone wants you extinguished."
The Majority Report: Humanizing Trans People with Laverne Cox.
