Racist Historical Cartoons Supported US Invasion of Philippines
The cartoons portrayed Filipinos as uncivilized people who needed to be educated by the invading United States army.
The New Hip Fascist State | Bobby London Wordpress
[…] As the state continues to build it’s arsenal against the resistance and create more authoritarian agencies to stalk us. I wonder how long it is going to take for us to move away from a position of defense towards a more proactive stance against an increasingly more powerful fascistic state.
I find my self debating with people often on whether or not what we’re living under is even really Fascism, “we still have a free press” they say, “you’re not locked up in jail or murdered for your political ideas” they say, “how can this be fascism?” they ask. Now insert some WWI or WWII historical fact here and if one cannot prove that America is doing that exact thing, in this exact way, then we are not of course living under a fascist regime. Despite however the fact that in this country we are more surveilled than the populace in Nazi Germany, that America, after the war, recruited and adopted many of the Nazi’s all-star players, many of them top scientists and researchers.
And sure, I haven’t been imprisoned for the things I write or say – yet, but the state is carefully collecting and storing everything from phone calls to emails for later use. We’ve already seen cases of people being arrested for their Facebook or Twitter statuses – free speech ain’t so free after all. Let’s be clear though, the media is owned by a rich minority that is used as a complete propaganda tool for the state. The function of the state at this point is to serve corporate white supremacist interests both here and abroad. To do this they need Fascism and the force of the police state.
This however does not constitute as Fascism according to them. I guess we’ll have to wait for a more obvious form of ethnic cleansing, (enter statistic that is consistently increasing here) of black people being killed every day by police officers, but I guess this isn’t systematic enough.
Does it matter what we call it anyways? In this time of highly propagated media you could probably market Fascism as something fashionable and chic. The public would eat it up. Have it run a candidate that’s a TV show host they love to hate just to draw them in, or wrap it up in Feminism, ‘cause it’s time to smash some glass ceilings (for some of us), or better yet throw some Socialism on it for others ‘cause you know you can’t be a socialist and a fascist.
At this point is Fascism more dangerous than White Supremacy? Can you really have institutional White Supremacy without Fascism? and if so, then doesn’t that mean that America has always been a fascist state? Sure Mussolini may have coined the phrase but America has been utilizing the very same tactics before the idea was even given its fancy name, so give credit where credit is due.
America has always been fascist depending on what America you are talking to. If you’re a black and in America from the time of slavery this country has been fascist to you. From genocide, to a vast prison industry, the introduction of crack cocaine by the CIA , AIDS, segregation, and let’s not forget slavery. The Edward Snowden era anti-surveillance advocates only come at a time where now the tentacles of Fascism are effecting white America.
I’m sure depending on who you’re talking to and what part of the world they are living in Fascism will look and sound different too. Fascism for someone who survived the Holocaust may have looked much different than for someone who survived the reign of Pinochet. I think the major difference between now and the 1930’s are that governments are no longer openly fascist in name. Which is a great PR trick, but it does not change the fact that they behave as fascists. Take for instance Occupied Palestine also known as Israel by other fellow fascists. Israel resembles and inflicts a lot of the same persecution and terrible techniques used by Nazi Germany on the Palestinian people. They are also currently one of the major weapons and surveillance capitals of the world. They have imposed heavily militarized checkpoints and test chemical weapons on the Palestinian people, used forced sterilization on Ethiopian Jews, and what is Gaza other than a large scale concentration camp at this point?
So back to a question I asked earlier, does it matter whether or not we call it Fascism? The answer is yes. From the time we attend grade school we are taught that Fascism is wrong, that Democracy is key, and that WWII was a victory of good against evil and freedom against fascistic enslavement. The Nazis were good, but the Americans were even better when it came down to propaganda. Propaganda was repurposed and rebranded as Public Relations (PR), and Americans along with the existing international community, including the wealthy elite, knew they needed rebranding as much as they needed Fascism. So instead of calling it Fascism, they would call it Neo-Liberalism, or Democracy (their interpretation of it anyway), or however they decide to spin it, in the end Fascism is Fascism.
Evan Osnos tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross how white nationalist groups found their candidate in Donald Trump —
“Because of the shooting in Charleston, there was a successful effort to have the Confederate flag removed from the State House in South Carolina and a number of retailers, for instance Walmart and Amazon, dropped it from their inventory, and for people on this very far right fringe, the people in this white nationalist community, they regarded this as an assault and they felt that this was a sign of what was to come in a future in which they would no longer have this demographic influence, they just would no longer have the numbers in America that they might have had in the past. And in that sense of vulnerability, they also found purpose….They were feeling organized and galvanized in a way that they hadn’t been before and then into that moment dropped Donald Trump.”
How White Nationalist Groups Found Their Candidate In Donald Trump
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“Take up the White Man’s burden, Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your sons to exile, to serve your captives’ need;
To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.”Excerpt from “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands”
This is why I won’t call myself Filipinx-American.
The North is not off the hook. Not by a long shot.
“There is no difference between the North and South. The difference is in the way they castrate you. But the castration itself is the American fact.”
- James Baldwin (1963)
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro showed his solidarity with the Mexican people and lashed back at Donald Trump for his racist remarks made during a speech earlier this week.
“I totally reject the statements of Donald Trump. Crook. Thief. How can you attack our brothers from Mexico, who have already been persecuted and exploited enough by your people,” Maduro said in a speech on national radio and television.
Trump slandered Mexicans in a public speech Tuesday while announcing his bid for presidential candidate. He accused them of “bringing drugs, crime and rapists” to the U.S. and promised future voters that he would build a “great wall” along the border with Mexico and force the Mexican government to pay for it.
Trump’s comments come in response to the what has been called a “migration crisis” in the U.S, which the United Nations has called a “humanitarian situation.”
In recent years, tens of thousands of people from Central America and Mexico have tried to enter the U.S. in search of better opportunities and, above all, safety. Most of the migrants, including children, have been forced to flee situations of daily violence, gang wars and perpetual poverty.
Editors Note: I don’t think ALL nationalism is inherently bad (see ethnic nationalism), but when connected to the State, it propagates an irrational sense of superiority over other peoples and ways of life insofar that it is willing to use war — and all the dehumanization therein — to gain hegemony. The same “identity creating” force of nationalism is the same force that erases the identities of millions of peoples, creating instead a pseudo-monolithic whole by dismembering or compressing a thousand narratives into one. In short, it fosters a false sense of unity in a multitude of ethnic diversity, eventually acting to erase that diversity. This is what the State does when it can use nationalism, even when repelling colonization, it functions the same.
It takes a lot of patience to talk to a condescending Fox host about race in America. Kudos to these Baltimore community leaders for a job well done.
