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i love the way so many people want to hold up the Third Reich as the standard for fascist evil that must be perfectly matched or else it’s just not bad enough. jk i don't love it.
the Nazis took inspiration from U.S. treatment of Natives and Black ppl. in fact, some high ranking Nazis thought the U.S. took it a bit too far.
there are mass forced sterilizations going on in the U.S. all the time - i say “all the time” because it’s safe to assume that a very small percentage of these ops are ever brought to public attention, yet there are still a lot of them. in 2020, a whistleblower reported mass sterilizations at an ICE detention facility (concentration camp). in 2013 (i think), the California prison system was caught doing it to incarcerated women. in many states, it’s perfectly legal to sterilize disabled women and girls against their will. and while it’s definitely NOT legal, poor women are sterilized against their will by their doctors pretty much daily - eugenics is the basis of our healthcare system and our doctors lean heavily fash, just like they did in Nazi Germany. that’s because they are cut from the same cloth.
in the U.S., the repression of disabled people, homeless people, people who use drugs, and incarcerated people has long since reached the extermination phase. but somehow even that is not bad enough for y’all. most Americans either don’t see it or they think it’s good.