> I think you'll agree that a systematic genocide like the ones you mention where you go into a city and round people up cannot happen.
Oh, but we already have a small precursor to that, the ICE raids on immigrants. There will always be people willing to ride the trains and to man the guard towers, good Christians too.
Let's hope it does not go further than it has already done.
> So we are left with small scale attacks, the kind terrorists do.
I'm not sure of that. The whole 'unite the right' movement is about connecting all the little dots into a wave large enough that it would be hard to put down without the national guard or the army stepping in, who could very well have sympathizers in their own ranks.
> We need to fight and guard against those, infiltrate the cells and arrest anyone actually planning such thing, but they are not in the category of genocide.
Yes, that is exactly what they said in 1933 about Hitler and his merry band of followers.
And then in 1934 the tables were turned and suddenly there was no way back, from that point forward WWII was inevitable.
Edit: I've taken some time to find this article in Der Spiegel, I read it long ago and I found it to be quite informative about Hitlers rise to power:
That's not fair. Humanity is not yet at the stage where it can allow anybody to live wherever they want. I also can't move to the US without a visa, not legally at least. And if I do it illegally, I can't complain if I get raided one day. It's not a human right yet to live in the US.
BTW, those kind of raids also happen in Europe. Yes, they make be feel bad, but unless we go for radical taxation and basic income (including for immigrants), I don't see how we could not have them.
Also, what would be the unifying sentiment that the white supremacists would unite the whole country around, like this:
> For the vast majority of Germans, the restoration of
national pride and military strength, the overthrowing of the Versailles Treaty and the expansion of the Reich to incorporate ethnic Germans from Austria and the Sudetenland were goals in themselves
> It says he had total control over the media, and that he had huge approval. Neither is true today.
This was not the case when Hitler first became Chancellor or, even moreso, when his faction first took undisputed control of the Nazi Party.
It was true sometime after he'd done both, and used the propaganda power (and coercive power) of both the state and party to secure his hold on the public. (One clear difference, whatever parallels there might be, is that Trump only really started the fight for undisputed control of the GOP after becoming President; that makes the internal fight much more visible to outsiders, but also wants if he wins it, he won't have as many other barriers to cross to implement his plans as Hitler did after taking over the Nazis.)
Oh, but we already have a small precursor to that, the ICE raids on immigrants. There will always be people willing to ride the trains and to man the guard towers, good Christians too.
Let's hope it does not go further than it has already done.
> So we are left with small scale attacks, the kind terrorists do.
I'm not sure of that. The whole 'unite the right' movement is about connecting all the little dots into a wave large enough that it would be hard to put down without the national guard or the army stepping in, who could very well have sympathizers in their own ranks.
> We need to fight and guard against those, infiltrate the cells and arrest anyone actually planning such thing, but they are not in the category of genocide.
Yes, that is exactly what they said in 1933 about Hitler and his merry band of followers.
And then in 1934 the tables were turned and suddenly there was no way back, from that point forward WWII was inevitable.
Edit: I've taken some time to find this article in Der Spiegel, I read it long ago and I found it to be quite informative about Hitlers rise to power:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-fuehrer-myth...
edit2: On another note, please note that Germany at the time was the superpower in Europe.