Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”
Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.
I’m sick of “American” just being a stand in for white for folks like this. Someone mentioned “Americans” were going to be lynched en masse today because “we” didn’t understand the oncoming danger… like Jesus Christ. Surely that’s never happened before or continues to here!
