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Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX

Arrest Stephen Miller for his role in the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Goode (and others in ICE custody)! 😡

Erratic behavior? From someone like Mr miller? Unprecedented

What is "soft" ethnic cleansing? Is it some sort of kinder, gentler fascism? From here in Minneapolis, at least, nothing looks very "soft" about any part of their agenda.

Deporting is 'soft ethnic cleansing'. A Holocaust is 'hard ethnic cleansing', and also what you get when you try the soft way and decide it costs too much and/or takes too much time. It always starts out 'soft'.

bsky.app/profile/mhar... There were 7 years between the Nuremberg Laws and the Wannsee Conference; you don't go from 0 to Holocaust overnight, even at the Trump admin's breakneck pace.

My point being that I don't think there's anything to gain by calling this "soft" ethnic cleansing except to avoid calling what's going on what it really is. Historically, ethnic cleansing always starts "soft" - see how far you can push the lines, do a little test run in a handful of locations.

Things rarely go from 0 to Holocaust immediately; even the Nazis took almost 10 years to go from persecution to Final Solution. And that's why being clear-eyed about what's happening now, and refusing to mince words, is so important.