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About Slopes

Laws Donald Trump enacted while in office include: Muslim Ban (Jan 27, 2017), "zero tolerance" immigration policy where hundreds of children were kept in chain-link fences (April 6, 2017), and he supported the RAISE Act that would cut legal immigration in half (Aug 2, 2017). 

Fall of 1941 is when a strict ban on Jewish emigration was introduced in Germany by the Nazi regime. This same year is when Jews were gathered en masse and transported to extermination camps; men, women, and children were separated without regard. A German (Nazi) physician named Dr. Robert Ritter had a specialty in criminal biology (read: a concept linking criminal behavior and genetics). These “findings” were the foundation of the Nuremberg Race Laws: two laws enacted by the Nazi Party where only those "of German or related blood" were considered citizens using the now-disproven logic of eugenics.

On October 7, 2024, Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt, "You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”

“During these years, when the Nazi regime was still rather shaky and the Nazis feared opposition from within and resistance from without, they did nothing drastic, and the first measures appeared, in relative terms, rather mild. (Bradsher, 2023)”

De-humanizing minorities is straight from the Adolph Hitler handbook. Jews, people in the gay community, Black people, Romanis, and those with disabilities were considered lesser-than and suffered real repercussions when the Nuremberg Laws were enacted. These are some of the same groups that Donald Trump ridicules and has created barriers for. Like when he mocked a reporter with arthrogryposis on November 25, 2015. September 10, 2024, Donald Trump (falsely) claimed Haitian immigrants abduct pets and eat them. In 1989, Donald Trump took out a full-page advertisement encouraging the state of New York to bring back the death penalty, inspired by a case where a woman was raped in Central Park and five Black and Latino teenagers were charged. The youngest was 14, the oldest 16. They spent at least 5 years in prison before they were exonerated. June 2014, Donald Trump stated Mexican immigrants were “bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and they’re rapists” as well as they bring “tremendous infectious disease” to the country (which is not correct). This is consistent with his ideology. "Denying another’s mind, particularly their capacity for experience, undermines moral concern for them, and has been claimed to facilitate extreme violence. (Landry, et al., 2022)"

"President Donald Trump didn’t condemn white supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this summer. (APNews, 2020)" Yet when Black Lives Matter protests unfolded after a white police officer knelt on George Floyd's neck/back for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, fatally asphyxiating him, Donald Trump called the demonstrators “terrorists” and "anarchists" and "thugs". When it's a terroristic group that boosts his agenda, he will not speak against violence. However, when an unarmed Black is murdered in broad daylight at the hands of an institution that is historically and consistently harming Black people, he suddenly has the voice to criticize and denounce a 200-year plight.

"During the Holocaust, Nazis referred to Jews as rats. Hutus involved in the Rwanda genocide called Tutsis cockroaches. Slave owners throughout history considered slaves subhuman animals. In Less Than Human, David Livingstone Smith argues that it's important to define and describe dehumanization, because it's what opens the door for cruelty and genocide. (NPR, 2011)" In his speech on April 2, 2024, he said, "Democrats said please don’t call [immigrants] 'animals'. I said, no, they’re not humans, they’re animals." When we deny a person’s ability to feel – what researchers call “mind denial” – we justify abuse and violence. "The consequence, whether intentional or not, was to overcome the moral barriers to their mass elimination."

The laws, which very much impact everyday citizens, are barbaric and terrifying. What the key point here is not what's implemented as much as what's perpetuated as acceptable. And for Donald Trump, that is discrimination, polarization, discreditation, and a desire for absolute power. His rhetoric is dangerous. How he has cultivated an environment where people can openly speak hate and act on that aggression is the first step to crumbling our mores and long-established ethics. Anyone who is unwilling to immediately disavow a KKK grand wizard as well as give Neo-Nazis comfort to exist is not someone I would ever respect nor someone I think should represent one of the most powerful nations. October 6, 2024, he states, "I only want to be a dictator for one day, and I’m going to close the borders and drill, baby, drill. But after that, I never want to be a dictator." Acting as a unilateral force without the checks and balances of Congress and the Supreme Court is the opposite of how democracy works; he is supposed to be a representative of what his constituents want and need.

His longest-serving chief of staff John Kelly claims Trump repeatedly stated, "I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders. What's astounding about this is Hitler's generals tried to assassinate him on more than one occasion. This would attest to, not Trump's enthusiasm for historical accuracy, but his desire to rule in an autocratic manner.
On November 2, 2020, Trump signed an executive order establishing the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission to “promote patriotic education.” The commission, teased by Trump in remarks on September 17, 2020, was viewed as a political move aimed at censoring the teaching of American history and as an attack on the Pulitzer-Prize winning 1619 Project, which details this nation’s history beginning when the first enslaved Africans were brought to America (https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks-issue/).

In 1940, the Nazi party fabricated a film about a Jewish family of bankers and portrayed them as a family that manipulated the course of wars for financial gain and that they would blackmail politicians to sway them towards their beliefs (https://medium.com/memory-action/the-deadly-power-of-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-f3b4418d333).

In both of these cases, the authoritative ruler tried to alter the integrity of truth. They wanted to omit or re-write history in an attempt to further perpetuate their agenda, which both favor the prosperity of white citizens. (encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda-and-censorship).

Last, January 6, 2021, Donald Trump encouraged supporters to storm the capital under a (false) conviction that the 2020 election was "stolen". It was lead by the far-right, neo-fascist militant organization the Proud Boys. The group has an ideology of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, misogyny, transphobia and anti-immigrant sentiment with the group known to threaten, intimidate or violently assault anti-racism protesters (https://www.isdglobal.org/.../part-ii-the-proud-boys.../). Adolph Hitler tried to overthrow the German government in 1923 and he went to prison. Hitler improved the German economy and he was TIME magazine's man of the year in 1938. These facets will never off-set the atrocious series of events his perilous indoctrination led to. 

Even though I have researched this topic, discussed it with a history teacher, and have over ten credible sources for this response, part of the issue is that – very much like Nazi Germany, where the nation was fed specific propaganda – in America, it has transformed where nothing in the media is to be believed except for information posted in spaces that are authored by Trump supporters or his own platform (Truth Social). Veracity is being challenged from small to large events. If we can't agree on what's true, our society will crumble. This is merely a modern take on Hitler and Goebbels' propaganda strategies and it's so concerning to watch educated, usually logical adults blindly follow these beliefs without question.

It had to start somewhere. I have outlined very literal and exact comparisons to how Adolph Hitler rolled out his regime. This tactic is insidious and strategic. It does not happen overnight but the continuation of harmful ideology and legal actions. If Donald Trump is not contained and the rhetoric is not stopped, it can, as history has shown, lead to these atrocities. 

What are 3 laws that the Trump administration passed that you felt the need to support him to the point you are morally okay with overlooking all the harm he has done to people of color and the long list of women who have accused him (decades-long) of sexual abuse?

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the good fluff

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of [your teacher], and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you're Count Dracula.

Here's an assignment for tonight, and I hope [your teacher] will flunk you if you don't do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can.

But don't tell anybody what you're doing. Don't show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or [your teacher]. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacles. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what's inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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