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> to give in to the allure of dehumanization and extrajudicial punishment is fascism incarnate

It's well known that the US has an extrajudicial assassination program and prison.




Something I realised the other day, is that the campaign of dehumanization and extrajudicial punishment that the USA carried out against African Americans doesn't really have a name, like Fascism or Nazi-ism.

Yeah there's "slavery" and then "Jim Crow" but what do you call the stuff since the 1950s? Mostly it's referred to by the inverse, the Civil Rights Movement, but what did they move against?


"The New Jim Crow", sort of like "neo-Nazi"

http://newjimcrow.com/




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