Category: 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
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Sterilization Mills in 1930s America
Found an excerpt from War Against the Weak by Edwin Black (also put in the intro in my bookmarks): Western State Hospital in Staunton was not Virginia’s only sterilization mill. Others dotted the state’s map, including the Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded near Lynchburg, the nation’s largest facility of its kind and the state’s […]
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Gays Make Great Cannon Fodder
As existing troops have a third or fourth tour overseas and Bush plans to not listen to anybody except his own arrogance, the need for more troops looms large. Former Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff TWO weeks ago, President Bush called for a long-term plan to increase the size of the armed forces. As […]
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FBI Reports ‘Baptizing' at Guantanamo
interrogators wrapped a bearded prisoner’s head in duct tape “because he would not stop quoting the Koran,” … a civilian contractor laughed about the treatment and was eager to show it off. one interrogator bragged to an FBI agent that he had forced a prisoner to listen to “Satanic black metal music for hours,” then […]
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Proto-Fascism Makes Me Horny
To celebrate the new year, I’m adding a collection of 14 new categories to this blog. The fourteen points of fascism first authored by Lauren Britt. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. Disdain for the importance of human rights. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism. Rampant sexism. A […]