This is a very romanticized version of American intervention in WW2.
The bitter truth is that we had guys with Nazis war trophies back home who were waving Confederate flags the year after their deployment ended. Hell, we had guys like Mark Fuhrman, who were decorated detectives in the LAPD back in the early 90s with a naked well-established fetish for European fascism. And that’s before you get into the Ratlines that imported thousands of Nazis into Latin America under cover of the CIA and Opus Dei.
This isn’t something that got lost in translation or distorted through history. It’s a direct consequence of American fascism reproducing itself in America as an outcropping of American tendencies.
The Stars and Stripes is as much a symbol of fascist oppression in Vietnam and Indonesia and the DRC and the Oklahoma Reservation system as any German flag.
The Stars and Stripes is as much a symbol of fascist oppression in Vietnam and Indonesia and the DRC and the Oklahoma Reservation system as any German flag.
Don’t forget the Philippines, Laos, Hawai’i, Samoa, Venezuela, Cuba, Iraq, and last but not least Palestine!
And not just the Oklahoma Reservation system, everywhere in all so called US land saw the equivalent of a holocaust to its completion. There’s a reason Indigenous peoples account for a whopping 1-2% of the population of the US (and Canada, we did pretty much the same thing) when they were the majority just a generation ago.
This is a very romanticized version of American intervention in WW2.
The bitter truth is that we had guys with Nazis war trophies back home who were waving Confederate flags the year after their deployment ended. Hell, we had guys like Mark Fuhrman, who were decorated detectives in the LAPD back in the early 90s with a naked well-established fetish for European fascism. And that’s before you get into the Ratlines that imported thousands of Nazis into Latin America under cover of the CIA and Opus Dei.
This isn’t something that got lost in translation or distorted through history. It’s a direct consequence of American fascism reproducing itself in America as an outcropping of American tendencies.
The Stars and Stripes is as much a symbol of fascist oppression in Vietnam and Indonesia and the DRC and the Oklahoma Reservation system as any German flag.
Don’t forget the Philippines, Laos, Hawai’i, Samoa, Venezuela, Cuba, Iraq, and last but not least Palestine!
And not just the Oklahoma Reservation system, everywhere in all so called US land saw the equivalent of a holocaust to its completion. There’s a reason Indigenous peoples account for a whopping 1-2% of the population of the US (and Canada, we did pretty much the same thing) when they were the majority just a generation ago.