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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
1. Because we didn't notice, because nobody was bringing it up. The cat's out of the bag now.

2. Because many of us had a baseline belief that the Obama administration wouldn't enact punitive policies towards undocumented people for sport, and there's clear evidence that the current administration does that. So the calculus isn't the same.

3. There are drastically more caged children now, because the current administration adopted policies specifically intended to increase the caging of children, as a deterrent. So the policies themselves aren't the same.