We‘re Falling Behind in the Holocaust Race

Frankie G.
Aug 31, 2018 · 5 min read

Over the past two weeks, like many of you, I’ve learned of the terrifying situation in Xinjiang. Uyghurs, a Turkic & largely-Islamic minority group in China, are being rounded up & detained in “reeducation camps.” A handful have died, and the remaining “free” Uyghurs live in constant fear. I couldn’t help but compare this to the ongoing concentration camp situation along our Southern border, where we are stripping passports from citizens & destroying families. And in doing so, I came to one startling conclusion.

CHINA IS BEATING US TO THE NEXT HOLOCAUST

How did we get here? How did a country with centuries of concentration camp experience, a country founded on crimes against humanity, come in second place yet again to China? I’m afraid there’s no one to blame except ourselves.

On September 11th, 2001, terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, killing thousands. On October 26th, 2001, we passed the USA PATRIOT ACT, killing the republic. We laid the foundations for a new Holocaust, restricting freedoms, increasing surveillance, & creating pretexts for detaining or killing both immigrants and citizens. We fetishized authority & violence, even more than we already had, and militarized the police. We even doubled down on torture, & turned Guantanamo Bay into a proto-concentration camp. We were on pace, chugging along nicely! And then…what? 17 years later, and we’re only just now ramping up to the big show? It’s pathetic.

You know what China’s done in the past 17 years? First, they cracked down on Falun Gong practitioners. They’ve killed tens of thousands of them, either through torture & abuse or — and this is really inventive — organ harvesting! Yes, not even the Nazis thought of that, because they were too focused on racial purity. Those goofs! No, this mini-cleansing is smart, because it’s not focused on a religion, which makes it easier to tell who is or isn’t a target. No need to make family trees! Much more efficient.

By the way, if you’ve ever seen one of those “Bodies” exhibits, and wondered why almost all the bodies with faces seem to be Chinese, it’s because they source the bodies from China, which happens to have a surplus of corpses for some reason. Wink, wink! Holocausts are expensive, and you’ve got to make revenue where you can! How do I know that, you ask? I once asked a worker at a “Bodies” exhibit where they got the bodies, and that’s what they told me. Amazing!

Shoulda done that thinking while you were alive, ya silly dissident!

Sure, 17 years is a long time to not finish a Holocaust, I’ll give you that. But they’re not making that mistake with the Uyghurs. Yes, it’s an ethnic group, but one marked by a tendency to speak Uyghur & follow Islam, so they’re still easy to spot. Even better, they mostly tend to live in Xinjiang. No need to go traipsing all over Asia tracking them down! Another lesson learned from the Nazis: don’t go invading other places just to do your Holocaust. Keep it local! It took a few years for them to get the Falun Gong persecution going, but they’re moving along much more quickly this time around. In just two years, they’ve turned Xinjiang into a total surveillance state (with cameras & police watchposts every few hundred feet), built huge beautiful reeducation camps, and detained over a million Uyghurs. Wow! Think about that! When the Nazis opened Dachau in 1933, it only had the capacity for 5000 “people.” The Nuremberg Laws didn’t pass until 1935, and Kristallnacht wasn’t until 1938! The Chinese have accomplished more in two years than the Nazis did in five!

And where are we? Only 3000 children traumatically stripped from their parents. Only 450 parents deported without their kids, unlikely to ever see them again. ICE is only sometimes using illegal methods to bust those fams, and only sometimes executing their duties in a way that just seems like a straight-up kidnapping.

What happened to us?

Personally, I blame Obama. He took the militarized police state that Bush helped create (with assistance from both parties in Congress, the Supreme Court, and most of America), and what did he do with it? Practically nothing! He slowed our persecution of immigrants. He tried to close down our wonderful pre-concentration camp in Cuba. He even said police violence is bad! Come on! Sure, sure, he expanded our wars, created a secretive drone assassination program, and even executed American citizens abroad without a trial, but he honestly felt sorry! That’s just no way for an American President to behave, and it’s certainly no way to run a Holocaust.

Thankfully, Trump got into office, and he’s spent the first two years of his term getting us back on track. Congress has helped him put ministers & policies into place to alienate American citizens, destroy immigrant & refugee families, and craft concentration camps like the one in Brownsville. Government workers are dutifully following orders, & for-profit companies have even gotten in on the action, with their executives & employees playing their parts just like in any good Holocaust. Things are speeding up now, with reports that we’re taking away citizenship & passports from people born in America, just because they’re Hispanic. A crucial part of any Holocaust is making sure that the group you target feels as alien as possible, both in their own minds & the minds of those around them. It’s also essential that you don’t let them travel freely, because otherwise, they might get away before you make them suffer! Another crucial component is a secret police, and ICE is getting there — though they’re sure takin’ their sweet time!

But, hey, with any luck, we’ll match those Chinese numbers in no time. I just hope it’s not too late.


In case you’re not sure about some of this stuff:

Over one million served in Xinjiang

Falun Gong organ harvesting

Passport stripping along our Southern border, including from born citizens

ICE stepping up their secret police tactics

Here’s footage of a particularly disturbing “arrest” that really does just look like a kidnapping. As a bonus, they threaten the other people who aren’t getting arrested!

I really did ask a “Bodies” worker that once, and got that answer, but here’s an article about “Bodies” using Chinese bodies.

Obama iced Americans abroad, more than once. He had the CIA kill Anwar al-Awlaki, a born American. Later, drone strike murdered his son Abdulraman, who was born in Denver. Bonus: never wanting to be outdone by Obama, last year Trump had SEALs off Abdulraman’s 8-year-old sister.

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