Hot Type: ‘Holy Fascism’ In my latest column for @BylineTimes, I reflect on how the Trump regime’s cynical use of ‘God’ as cover for its greedy, bloody, and criminal actions mirrors fascist regimes, both past and present 1/ bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-t…

Hot Type: The Moral Strain of Reality While attention is being diverted to AI’s kill threat, the Trump regime is already engaging in mass killings — my latest in @BylineTimes bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-t…

Ignoring Evil Anyone who reads history knows about concentration camps, from Stalin’s Russia to Hitler’s Germany, which ran an elaborate network of death factories in occupied countries. “This reminds me very much of the situation in the early years of the Nazi regime,” philosophy professor and author David Livingstone Smith told Byline Times. “Information about the first concentration camps was quite public, described in the media of the day and they enjoyed a great deal of public support as ways of dealing with criminals and other sorts of social outsiders.” Smith, who has written multiple books on the subject of dehumanization, offered a quote from the book, What We Knew by Eric A Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband, which is based on interviews with Germans who were alive during the Nazi regime. “One respondent said, ‘So people didn’t believe it, or didn’t know about it, or pretended not to know. As long as their lives were not touched by it, fine.’” He said: “In a way it’s like here, with the people who don’t know about discrimination against Blacks and Hispanics. To them it doesn’t exist. They close their eyes to it.” Smith cautioned: “Lots of Americans are behind the camps. Many of them have swallowed the ‘law and order’ propaganda describing undocumented immigrants as monstrous predators. Many others are not behind them, but close their eyes to reality, because reality exacts too great a moral strain. But in doing this, they are complicit.”— @DavidLSmith_Iam 15/