This is off topic somewhat, I read "Human Smoke" several years ago, and what jumped out at me was Baker's controversial assertion that is was Churchill who initiated the bombing of civilian targets. I mention this only as another possible motivator to read the book. The book is disturbing for the reason Hamilton Nolan points out, but it also documents how tribalism brings out the worst in us.
After decades now (yes, long before Little Big Orange) of having people I care about admonish me for being alarmist, being proven justified over and over is such cold fucking comfort.
if MAGA actually had a scientific racial theory and a plan for eugenics on the ground, I would take this post more seriously. But they don't and won't and illegal immigration is not a net good. Legal immigration is definitely a net good. Lock up the employers of illegal immigrants and treat the exploited people in the most humane way possible. Stop foreign policy that forces people to leave their homes and families. Now that would be great.
Are you sure they don't have a pseudo-scientific race premise on the back burner? Our country's eugenic past created some dark things for hundreds of thousands of disabled Americans between approximately 1900 and 1946. Some would like to bring that past back.
Good article. I am writing a short story telling a similar tale of the euthanasia of the developmentally disabled and mentally ill people in the years leading up to WWII. Although contemporary examples don't yet exist, I feel terrible things are headed our way. It may start with Trans people and immigrants, but it will not end there. Once the rule of law is lost, it may take decades to get it back.
That article about people paying for subscriptions and not realizing how much they were paying made me laugh. Dummies. I have to pay here because they suck so terribly.
That was a great article…horrifying…but very eye opening. If my eyes could get any wider… 👁️👁️ lol
"History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done." Sydney J. Harris
This is off topic somewhat, I read "Human Smoke" several years ago, and what jumped out at me was Baker's controversial assertion that is was Churchill who initiated the bombing of civilian targets. I mention this only as another possible motivator to read the book. The book is disturbing for the reason Hamilton Nolan points out, but it also documents how tribalism brings out the worst in us.
After decades now (yes, long before Little Big Orange) of having people I care about admonish me for being alarmist, being proven justified over and over is such cold fucking comfort.
if MAGA actually had a scientific racial theory and a plan for eugenics on the ground, I would take this post more seriously. But they don't and won't and illegal immigration is not a net good. Legal immigration is definitely a net good. Lock up the employers of illegal immigrants and treat the exploited people in the most humane way possible. Stop foreign policy that forces people to leave their homes and families. Now that would be great.
Are you sure they don't have a pseudo-scientific race premise on the back burner? Our country's eugenic past created some dark things for hundreds of thousands of disabled Americans between approximately 1900 and 1946. Some would like to bring that past back.
I think I'm gonna skip this one. I'd like to sleep at some point within the next year.
Good article. I am writing a short story telling a similar tale of the euthanasia of the developmentally disabled and mentally ill people in the years leading up to WWII. Although contemporary examples don't yet exist, I feel terrible things are headed our way. It may start with Trans people and immigrants, but it will not end there. Once the rule of law is lost, it may take decades to get it back.
"If we fail to study and learn from history, it is bound to repeat itself", and here we are!
That article about people paying for subscriptions and not realizing how much they were paying made me laugh. Dummies. I have to pay here because they suck so terribly.