Black and cream graphic: A continuous line drawing of Toni Morrisson on yellowed paper serves as the background. The main focus is on the text overlaid on the image. They are the opening lines of Morrison's essay "Racism and Fascism":
Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another. Something, perhaps, like this:
(1) Construct an internal enemy, as both focus and diversion.
(2) Isolate and demonize that enemy by unleashing and protecting the utterance of overt and coded name-calling and verbal abuse. Employ ad hominem attacks as legitimate charges against that enemy.
(3) Enlist and create sources and distributors of information who are willing to reinforce the demonizing process because it is profitable, because it grants power, and because it works.
(4) Palisade all art forms; monitor, discredit or expel those...
Feels like an appropriate time to re-up these powerful essays from one of America's great wordsmiths:
๐ง๐ผ๐ป๐ถ ๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐บ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ | ๐๐ป ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐ง๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐
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๐ธ: GVS (text formatting via In These Times)
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