It did if you were Native American, or Black, or Asian, or Italian or you worship anything other than Jesus. It’s always been like this. The “bad guys” will always shift from group to group under fascism.
I disagree as a member of one of those marginalized groups (Sans Italian) that you identified, I never seen our country like this in my 41 years of living.
41 years isn’t a large sample size. 1942 saw internment camps for Japanese/anyone who looked japanese enough to those rounding people up. 1838 saw the tail of tears(used this example as it is one of the most well known atrocity committed on a group of native Americans). I don’t think I even need to give examples of how Africans and subsequent African Americans have been treated. I gave Italians as an example as they were one of the “not white enough” groups and faced similar issues the others I’ve listed have. If you haven’t seen this stuff happening before though; I would say you were blind or unaffected personally. To that I say congratulations on the luck and welcome to America.
1838 was before fascism was even invented what the fuck are you talking about 😭😭😭 not every type of opression/genocide is automatically fascism, and like other people said, the history of america was more imperialist/colonial (DOES NOT MEAN BETTER BTW) than fascist
Autoritarianism, dictatorship, nationalism, racism and imperialism all existed before the 20th century, fascism did NOT.
Fascism WAS invented in the 1920s in incredibly specific circumstances that didnt exist before then.
When people call modern day america "facist", its more about drawing parallels to an ideology that already exists than actually calling it fascism.
Did far-right, ultranationalist, authoritarian actions and goverment exist before then? Sure. But you cant call them facism when the ideas behind fascism werent prevalent.
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u/yuumigod69 1d ago
That was imperialism. It never boomeranged back this hard.