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Doodley

(11,789 posts) Thu Feb 5, 2026, 03:43 PM Feb 5

Many people assume the holocaust could never happen again. How do we know it hasn't started already? [View all]

How will we know if the people who are violently arrested without due process, separated from their loved ones, chained and shackled, treated as less than human, and deported from America to hellhole concentration camps in El Salvador, and soon in other nations, aren't going to be gassed to death?

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Many people assume the holocaust could never happen again. How do we know it hasn't started already? [View all] Doodley Feb 5 OP

Doodley, I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering this. Scrivener7 Feb 5 #1

Been posting this here for a while Johnny2X2X Feb 5 #2

And some people think we can't compare to 1930s Germany. The hate among the far right is a tinderbox ready to ignite. Doodley Feb 5 #19

Thought the same! In Nazi Germany citizens thought Jews were just being deported. kerry-is-my-prez Feb 5 #3

Historians doubt that Germans didn't know EdmondDantes_ Feb 5 #13

Nobody in the Trump regime needs to know or care about what happens when, what they see as vermin, is removed. Doodley Feb 5 #20

I see a lot of 'vermin' in the White House just now, Jack Valentino Feb 5 #25

Some didn't know LostOne4Ever Feb 5 #26

By the time that many of them did know, there wasn't much they could do about it. They would have been just shot or raccoon Friday #30

so much cheaper to bury them. mopinko Feb 5 #4

Cambodia, Rwanda, Sudan, the Kurds, etc., etc Kaleva Feb 5 #5

What have they done with the homeless. Blue Full Moon Feb 5 #6

'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'" rampartd Friday #28

The Nazi's started with 200 murders in 1934 of political opponents WarGamer Feb 5 #7

i think we are in the tens of thousands by including Tetrachloride Feb 5 #8

I agree that the OP is hyperbolic from where we sit now TheProle Feb 5 #11

You're right, of course... WarGamer Feb 5 #12

Why does there have to be a contest? choie Friday #31

With all due respect, I'm asking a question. That isn't hyperbole. Doodley Feb 5 #16

With all due respect, I'm asking a question. That isn't hyperbole. Doodley Feb 5 #17

Who is comparing Trump to the holocaust? I've not seen that. Is he a fascist? Yes. An authoritarian? Yes. Is he Doodley Feb 5 #14

As far as the ADL is concerned, everything trivializes the Holocaust. iemanja Feb 5 #21

I don't understand how choie Friday #32

Yeah you'd think... purr-rat beauty Friday #33

Just remember - the Holocaust didn't start with the gas chambers. Initech Feb 5 #9

Thank you. Yes, we should not keep saying it will never happen, even as it comes closer and closer to that possibility. Doodley Feb 5 #18

Frank Zappa predicted it back in 1966: Initech Feb 5 #23

Umm, how could we not know it hasn't started already? ananda Feb 5 #10

True we have no idea what they Tree Lady Feb 5 #15

I watched a short doc on YouTube over the weekend about Vichy France rounding up Jews for deportation to Germany. Iggo Feb 5 #22

I keep saying on Here... Takket Feb 5 #24

The fact that the camps need to be liberated is a huge clue as to what's going on. Iggo Friday #34

What do you think the empty warehouses are for pnwest Friday #27

Warehousing. That's what. Iggo Friday #37

Unfortunately, all TOO familiar. pnwest Friday #38

It's been happening all over the world ever since the end of WWII Kaleva Friday #29

History can repeat itself LetMyPeopleVote Friday #35

I'm not sure it ever stopped, seems like it just went on a world tour 0rganism Friday #36