The cover of the next Stern, a German news magazine.
The title Sein Kampf (transl. his struggle) is a play on the title of Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf (transl. my struggle).
The full translation of the cover would be
HIS STRUGGLE
Neonazis, Ku-Klux-Klan, Racism:
How Donald Trump is stirring up hatred in America
When Germans call you a Nazi….
I see so much commentary in the tags about how Trump can’t be a Nazi because he’s pro-Israel, and I’m sitting here like, guys. Children. Nazi doesn’t mean “kills Jews.” That was the horrible outcome. The ideology itself was putting one’s own nation above all else (ring a bell?) while undermining democratic values (RING A BELL?) and being blatantly racist (RING A… you know what, forget it, you’re not listening to me anyway).
Instead of anti-communism you now have fierce pro-capitalism and instead of Jewish people being called animals you now have immigrants facing the same hatred. You already have the denunciations and people walking from door to door trying to root out “illegals.”
Current US politics may not involve any gas chambers, but Hitler didn’t burst on the political scene with “Let’s kill all the Jews!” either. If you honestly think US policies won’t escalate further, especially if Trump gets a second term, you’re standing chin-deep in denial.
This addendum from @lavvyan makes me want to gouge my fucking eyes out with a spoon, I don’t even know where to begin with debunking this mess.
1. Nazi doesn’t mean “kills Jews.” That was the horrible outcome. The ideology itself was putting one’s own nation above all else while undermining democratic values.
“At its core, the Nazi world view was racist and biological, positing that the so-called “Aryan” race – primarily the North Europeans – was the superior race of human beings. Their superiority granted the Aryans the right and obligation to rule over other races and peoples, for the benefit of humankind. The Jews, in complete contrast, were seen as a kind of “anti-race”, dangerous inhuman beings in seemingly human form. They were viewed alternatively as microbes and parasites, or as devils, that is, inhuman creatures with superhuman power.”
Nazism is an expression of fascism and nationalism, but one that is inherently based on a vision of racial purity that cannot be realised without removal of Roma and Jews. That’s literally the cornerstone of the Nazi ideology. To say that The Shoah was just a byproduct of Nazism is inaccurate, dangerous, and thoroughly insulting to the people victimised by Hitler’s reign.
2. Instead of Jewish people being called animals you now have immigrants facing the same hatred.
There is no “instead” here. Jewish people are still being called animals. It’s just that non-Jewish immigrants are too. This is not over for us, it’s still going on.
3. Hitler didn’t burst on the political scene with “Let’s kill all the Jews!”
Um…yes he did? He wrote an entire goddamn book about how the Jews were responsible for the world’s evils, which was published in 1925, a good 8 years before he was ever elected chancellor. Have you honestly not heard of Mein Kampf? If not, allow me to highlight some gems from this bestselling text for your reading pleasure:
“Without the clearest knowledge of the racial problem and hence of the Jewish problem there will never be a resurrection of the German nation.”
“The nationalisation of our masses will succeed only when, aside from all the positive struggle for the soul of our people, their international poisoners [the Jews] are exterminated”
“If at the beginning of the war and during the war twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the nation had been subjected to poison gas, such as had to be endured in the field by hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers of all classes and professions, then the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain.”
Like, that’s a pretty resounding “Hey, let’s kill all the Jews” if I ever heard one.
Like honestly, how fucking dare you stand here and try to downplay how absolutely integral antisemitism and anti-Romani racism was to the Nazi ideology. How fucking dare you try to pass it off as just a generic form of nationalism that wasn’t specifically designed from its inception to wipe our peoples off the face of the earth. You owe all Jewish and Romani people a fucking apology for this horrible, ill-informed take of yours, and for the record to everyone else: This is why I’m fucking sick of Holocaust comparisons. Because y’all cannot be trusted not to erase Jewish and Romani people from our own goddamn genocide. Either learn our history or keep our tragedies out of your fucking mouths.
And you know what else? You can be both antisemitic and pro-Israel. Remember Robert Jeffress and John C. Hagee, the evangelical pastors who led the prayers at the dedication of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem? Here’s what the New York Times reported about them:
“A Dallas evangelical pastor who once said that Jewish people are going to hell and a megachurch televangelist who claimed that Hitler was part of God’s plan to return Jews to Israel both played prominent roles on Monday in the opening ceremony of the new American Embassy in Jerusalem. …
Despite their comments about Jewish people, the two pastors are among the leading pro-Israel voices in the evangelical Christian world. Some evangelicals believe that American foreign policy should support Israel to help fulfill biblical prophecies about the second coming of Christ.”
All right, you might say, but that’s religious anti-Judaism, not the kind of racial antisemitism that characterized Nazism. Can you be racially antisemitic and pro-Israel? Well… yes, because you might want all the Jews to leave your country and Go Somewhere Else, even if you stop short of literal genocide. This was an attitude quite a few 19th-century Americans took toward Black people in America. Even some abolitionists who recognized that slavery was an evil thought it would be best for everyone if the emancipated slaves went back to Africa; Liberia was founded as a colony for freed American slaves. For most of his career, Lincoln favored colonization (either in Africa or the Caribbean) for freedmen because he thought Black people were inherently inferior and could never achieve social equality. Some of the people who supported colonization wanted free Blacks to be forcibly deported.
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