🧵 one thing you notice when you study history a lot is that, at least in US history, there are often mirrors of same major historic processes about a hundred years apart.

for ex:

so when white colonizers in south africa have to return their stolen land to Indigenous Black ppl, trump gives the white ppl special refugee status and says they're victims of "ethnicity-based property confiscation" and DEI rollbacks against them as an "ethnic minority"... [1/2]

the reason we talk about "the Palestine exception" is bc every person who thinks of themselves as politically liberal/left—EXCEPT when it comes to Palestinian liberation—inevitably moves further right on lots of issues.

why? bc defending this view requires the use of deeply right-wing logic 🧵

fascists overwhelm the masses by constantly escalating the scale and frequency with which they deploy tactics that were previously unimaginable.

those who wish to effectively resist fascism must escalate the variety and scale of anti-fascist tactics with a similar intensity and speed... [1/?]

sorry, i've moved on 💕

reading bad takes on why actually the dems' failures are the fault of poor ppl who didn't have the right opinions, and just tapping the sign over and over and over and over and over and over and over and...

wow it's almost like history is like... dialectical and material... or smt... 🤔

this app need more dogshit memes. put me in coach! 🫡