The next morning the “scrubbing parties” began. Members of the Austrian SA, working from lists, from personal knowledge, and from the knowledge of passersby, identified Jews and forced them to kneel and clean the streets with brushes. This was a ritual humiliation. Jews, often doctors and lawyers or other professionals, were suddenly on their knees performing menial labor in front of jeering crowds. Ernest P. remembered the spectacle of the “scrubbing parties” as “amusement for the Austrian population.” A journalist described “the fluffy Viennese blondes, fighting one another to get closer to the elevating spectacle of the ashen-faced Jewish surgeon on hands and knees before a half-dozen young hooligans with Swastika armlets and dog-whips.” Meanwhile, Jewish girls were sexually abused, and older Jewish men were forced to perform public physical exercise.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
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New Yorker: The Root of All Cruelty? Perpetrators of violence, we’re told, dehumanize their victims. The truth is worse. By Paul Bloom
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We aren't too far from these kinds of spectacles. Here it was public lynchings just a generation ago and White race riots. Armed with huge amounts of military-style weaponry the denizens of TrumPutin Land are poised to do it all over again and this time it will be against a wide array of despised minorities that will be "dealt" with. Charlotteville was not an aberration it was just an opening SHOT. The mass shootings are also NOT an aberration they are the furious venting of the surging hatred and rage of millions in the RED Zone and elsewhere in Amerikkka directed at these folks. Fox et al. has been stoking this fire for decades and now Trumpf and his minions are using it against his enemies and theirs. This is why THEY ( his base) loves him he allows them to feel justified and righteous in their feelings. You can see it in the continuing scapegoating of defeated yet still despised Hillary who has NEVER yet been arrested or convicted of any crime. Trump's threats to prosecute her and Obama are this same rage that has been building for decades and is now murderously bursting forth. It's getting worse by the day.
It's unfortunate that election day is not tomorrow or soon. I think the Dems will clobber the Trumpists. Don't forget, a lot of good people are resisting Trump, and that includes the media who have done a damn good job of exposing a lot of his madness.
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