While
America has gone a century and a half without being “war-torn” in
the conventional sense, the damage of war is not limited to that
inflicted by guns and bombs.
by
Whitney Webb
Part
6 - Fascism and racism cloaked in patriotism: an inevitable cycle
Ultimately,
what the past shows us is that, in times of war, the United States
often embodies the very evils it purports to stand against –
fascism and racism chief among them – but does so by wrapping these
troubling acts in a veneer of patriotism that falsely seeks to claim
that such crimes against the Constitution and American democracy are
done out of “necessity” to national security.
Again,
the oft-repeated adage that “those who ignore history are doomed to
repeat it” rings true. Trump’s Muslim ban and the anti-Russian
hysteria of the “Resistance” have raised concern among
Japanese-Americans that another group could again suffer in American
internment camps as they once did.
Homeland
Security’s “See Something, Say Something” program shows that
the APL’s brand of patriotic vigilantism still lives on. The U.S.
government’s continued use of the Espionage Act to target
whistleblowers and journalists further shows that dissenting
narratives are unwelcome here, whether during times of war or times
of peace.
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