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>>dredmo+(OP)
What can we do, as a community, to limit the spread of fascism? It seems that it's quite a problem.

>>Kednic+q5
What exactly is the “fascism” that we’re worried about spreading?

>>rayine+L6
Have you not been paying attention this past three years? Rampant nationalism, children in cages (still happening), police brutality and murder without repercussions, teargassing and beating peaceful protesters, the attorney general asserting that the president cannot break the law. I could go on, but if those don't make you worried about the threat of fascism, I'm not sure what would...

>>kennyw+k9
"Children in cages" happened during the Obama administration. No uproar then?

>>colleg+V9
Oh, sorry, so the nation has been listing towards fascism for decades? That is not a refuting of any of my points.

Bush started the use of drones in war, but Obama bears the blame for them in my opinion, because he could have backed away from it but instead he doubled down. I would say the same for the treatment of refugees at the border. Obama built the cages, but Trump uses them with a sickening joy and enthusiasm.

>>kennyw+Zb
You seem to be misremembering. It was separating children from their family, not caging them, that people were complaining about last election season, because of perfectly ordinary border enforcement arresting illegal aliens.

The exception was some misaligned activists that accidentally posted Obama-era photos of "caged" children (behind a fence) a couple weeks early, which happened before some lawsuit forced the feds to release the children instead of housing them with their parents.

>>SamRei+Dc
"because of perfectly ordinary border enforcement arresting illegal aliens."

Sorry, no I am actually super upset about the ongoing detention and inhumane treatment of people at the border. ALSO about family separation, but the cages are immoral to me as well. Many of these people are not "illegal aliens" but people seeking asylum which is NOT illegal.

>>kennyw+xd
Illegal border crossing is still illegal. We have a system in place for asylum seekers at a port of entry.

Nonetheless, the point of my comment is that children are not being caged, they're now being separated, as happens when suspects get arrested.