Showing posts with label nationalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nationalism. Show all posts

Sunday, September 27, 2020

Scapegoats for their own misdeeds



We've been seeing this crop up in right wing circles for a spell. Obviously it's being shared in a piss poor attempt to to align the Nazis with the modern day abolitionist movements.

SO LET'S FACT CHECK.

Prior to the 1930's Germany, the police forces were very decentralised and municipal in nature. The nazis in their rise to power instituted reforms to create a police state. The first of these was The Enabling Act 1933 which pretty much gave political power across a very diverse Germany, to the singular state authority. Part of this process was the creation of a unified central command for the police.


They were then placed under the control of the SS, who in turn placed members of the Gestapo and security services within the ranks of the local police forces. Subsequently the focus changed and they began to treat crime as a matter of race. 

All police forces act on the mandate of the state.

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

"America First" is a Theological Heresy

Look, we are supposed to love our neighbors. There isn't anything intrinsically wrong with loving your home. And that may be extended to include your community, city, and even state and country. 

But to consider yourself better than others by the shear chance upon which you were born, and others somehow less by virtue of their not sharing that chance in common with you is not only wrong, it's a sin!

And it's nationalism bordering on fascism. If you take a kind of hyper pride in where you are from, and consider yourself a Christian, you should probably read this article:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/freelancechristianity/america-first-is-a-theological-heresy/