#nativism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nativism, aggregated by home.social.
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‘The things that connect us are fraying’: James Graham short film explores what it means to be English.
This feels important.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/01/the-things-that-connect-us-are-fraying-james-graham-short-film-explores-what-it-means-to-be-english?CMP=share_btn_url -
“In the eyes of the world, the US is no longer “the cause of all mankind”, but its scourge. Reanimating stalled pretensions to racial progress, or other such bargain basement promises, will not absolve the empire this time.”
Quite the essay.
#USA #Nativism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/28/america-250-origin-myth-narrative-power?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1 -
https://thewalrus.ca/albertas-separatists-are-chasing-a-total-cowboy-fantasy/
More on Alberta separatism. This article gives a plausible account of the movement as being fuelled by hostility to immigrants.
#Alberta #Separatism #Canada #Politics #Immigration #Nativism #Xenophobia #RightWing #ExtremeRight
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"But if current polls are to be believed, the administration seems to be underestimating the everyday decency and patriotism of the American public."
#Republicans #MAGA #edgelordism #nativism #MaleEntitlement #ICE #immigrants
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"Edgelordism has become the currency du jour in the GOP, from the Ivy League through the streets of Minnesota. The MAGA new right seems to be betting that the American polity has a deep reserve of untapped nativist rage—which can be harnessed in the service of their culture war against the liberal status quo, or of ICE’s more tangible goals."
~ Laura K. Field
#Republicans #MAGA #edgelordism #nativism #MaleEntitlement #ICE #immigrants
/1https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/ice-trump-new-right/685854/
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Currently enjoying Concierto on KMFA, rebroadcast from WDAV 89.9.
https://wdav.org/program/concierto/
Always remember that Trump, Miller, et al. are disgusting nativist philistines.
#ClassicalMusic #LatinAmerica #Concierto #WDAV #KMFA #Radio #DonaldTrump #StephenMiller #Nativism #Xenophobia
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“So Tuesday showed that the #Hispanic #vote has re-realigned. And my prediction is that this won’t be a pendulum. #Republicans had their chance to win over a new bloc of voters; but by indulging Trump’s violent #racism and #nativism, they have lost them ...” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Are Hispanics America’s New Je... -
"Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler. Farage told us the flag-raisers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the system. A few months worth of local journalism later, that now looks like a shaky claim."
The men who raised the flags
https://manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-raised-the-flags/
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I, too, am worried about where this is heading. And I'm a white Englishman from multiple generations of white English heritage.
The government needs to get a grip.
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https://bbc.com/news/articles/cgjyqnndvwjo
Ugly nativism.
The only upside is that it might cost the Republicans some Chinese American votes.
#USPolitics #Texas #Sinophobia #Nativism #Racism #Xenophobia #China #ChineseAmericans
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#discrimination, a subset is #racism / #nativism and all the other bolloxy 'isms and #phobes #justsaying ✊
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**Flag: American Party, 1844-1860**
#History #Flag #KnowNothingParty #AmericanParty #USPol #Politics #Nationalism #Nativism #Populism
#Image attribution: American Party (1844-1860), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Digital_Reproduction_of_the_Know-Nothing_Party_Flag.jpg.
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"The Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship. …
In a 2019 report co-authored by [Cassandra] Robertson, Un(Civil) Denaturalization, she writes that denaturalization was wielded frequently as a political tool in the McCarthy era."
~ Jaclyn Diaz and Juliana Kim
#Trump #SupremeCourt #immigrants #BirthrightCitizenship #denaturalization #nativism
/11https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement
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"Discussing [proposals to denaturalize targeted groups] is a way of scaring people and whipping up anti-immigrant sentiment while also making a point: American citizenship is contingent, rooted in a nativist vision that’s largely been out of fashion for the better part of a century."
#Trump #SupremeCourt #immigrants #BirthrightCitizenship #denaturalization #nativism
/10~ Josh Kovensky
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"The words used to describe Dan Stein vary depending on whom you ask.
For someone who agrees with his super-restrictive immigration policy ideas, Stein is a kind of prophet whose decades of advocacy as president of the right-wing Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) are finally bearing fruit in president Trump's second term.
For others, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights nonprofit, Stein is closer to an extremist, spreading nativist ideas in a country freshly open to what were previously fringe ideas about mass deportations and eliminating birthright citizenship.
The one thing on which everyone can agree: Stein has been an undeniable influence on immigration policy in Washington D.C in the recent decade, and a go-to source for media looking for a reliable anti-immigrant perspective in roundtables and debates.
(. . .)
Pushing the idea that illegal immigration creates a burden on American taxpayers, makes the country less safe, depresses wages and undermines employment for native-born Americans, Stein has also claimed large numbers of immigrants are bad for the environment. And he's advocated for ideas that were once obscure, unpopular and on the periphery of policy debates, including ending birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents with temporary or no legal status.
It's an idea Trump has embraced. The president's efforts to end birthright citizenship is being challenged in the courts, but Stein is elated the debate has gone from far right fringe legal theory all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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FAIR's history of inflammatory comments landed it on a list of anti-immigrant hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2008.
'FAIR works to kind of maintain this veneer of legitimacy,' says Caleb Kieffer, a senior research analyst with the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Like Trump, he says, Stein has long vilified immigrants and asylum seekers. 'But then when you really start to kind of peel back their decades-long history, what you find is ugliness, xenophobia, ties to white nationalists, ties to eugenics.'
FAIR's founder, ophthalmologist John Tanton, pushed for white nationalist policies, including encouraging only certain people with specific traits to reproduce — what is called 'passive eugenics.'"
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🇺🇸 **Dr. Boucher: Trump Is Not the Cause, but a Symptom**
“_Dr. Boucher warns that even without Trump, populist forces will endure, backed by media ecosystems, think tanks, and loyalist networks._”
🔗 https://www.populismstudies.org/dr-boucher-trump-is-not-the-cause-but-a-symptom/.
#Trump #Populism #Immigration #SociaMedia #FakeNews #Nativism #PoliticalScience #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates @politicalscience
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Mahmoud Khalil’s case is setting up an epic first amendment battle with Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/mahmoud-khalil-first-amendment-trump
#Palestine #genocide #maga #trump #fascism #authoritarian #democracy #AcademicFreedom #racism #whitesupremacy #xenophobia #nativism -
America’s Forgotten History of #ForcedSterilization
By Sanjana Manjeshwar on November 4, 2020
"In early September, a nurse working at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) detention center in #Georgia came forward with shocking allegations of medical neglect and abuse, claiming that numerous involuntary #hysterectomies (uterus removal surgeries) were performed on detained #ImmigrantWomen. This allegation understandably evoked fury and outrage among the general public, with numerous people denouncing it as a #HumanRights violation and yet another example of the current administration’s cruelty towards women and immigrants. Many people, including prominent liberal politicians and public figures, viewed it as something distinctly un-American and at odds with our country’s values — a common refrain that echoed in response to the allegation was 'This isn’t the America I know.' There were countless comparisons to #NaziGermany and other #totalitarian, human rights-abusing regimes, as well as a pervasive sense that the United States was engaging in a uniquely cruel and unprecedented act. Unfortunately, this is a misleading impression.
"While the allegations against ICE are undoubtedly horrific and must be investigated, they are not at all unprecedented or un-American — in fact, they are very American. The United States has a long, egregious, and largely unknown history of eugenics and forced #sterilization, primarily directed towards #PoorWomen, #DisabledWomen, and #WomenOfColor.
"The American #eugenics movement originated in the late 1800s and has always been undeniably based in #racism and #nativism. The word 'eugenics' originally referred to the biological improvement of human genes, but was used as a pseudoscience to justify discriminatory and destructive acts against supposedly undesirable people, such as extremely restrictive #ImmigrationLaws, #AntiMiscegenationLaws, and forced sterilization. The ultimate goal of the eugenics movement was to 'breed out' undesirable traits in order to create a society with a 'superior' genetic makeup, which essentially meant reducing the population of the #NonWhite and the mentally ill. The eugenics movement was widely accepted in American society well into the 20th century, and was not at all relegated to the fringes of society like one might expect. In fact, most states had federally funded eugenics boards, and state-ordered sterilization was a common occurrence. Sterilization was seen as one of the most effective ways to stem the growth of an 'undesirable' population, since ending a woman’s reproductive capabilities meant that she would no longer be able to contribute to the population.
"The Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell (1927) decided that a Virginia law authorizing the mandatory sterilization of inmates in mental institutions was constitutional. #CarrieBuck, a 'feeble minded woman' whose mental illness had been in her family for the past three generations, was committed to a state mental institution and was set to undergo a sterilization procedure which required a hearing. The Supreme Court found that the Virginia law was valuable and did not violate the Constitution, and would prevent the United States from 'being swamped with incompetence…Three generations of imbeciles is enough.' The Court has never explicitly overturned #BuckVersusBell.
"California’s '#AsexualizationActs' in the 1910s and 1920s led to the sterilization of 20,000 disproportionately #Black and #Mexican people who were deemed to be mentally ill. #Hitler and the #Nazis were reportedly inspired by #California’s laws when formulating their own #genocidal eugenics policies in the 1930s. When discussing the Asexualization Acts of California, Hitler wrote, 'There is today one state in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of citizenship] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the #UnitedStates.'
"Throughout the 20th century, nearly 70,0000 people (overwhelmingly working-class women of color) were sterilized in over 30 states. #Black women, #Latina women, and #NativeAmerican women were specifically targeted. From the 1930s to the 1970s, nearly one-third of the women in #PuertoRico, a U.S. territory, were coerced into sterilization when government officials claimed that Puerto Rico’s economy would benefit from a reduced population. Sterilization was so common that it became known as '#LaOperación (The Operation)' among Puerto Ricans.
"Black women were also disproportionately and forcibly sterilized and subjected to reproductive abuse. In #NorthCarolina in the 1960s, Black women made up 65 percent of all sterilizations of women, although they were only 25 percent of the population. One Black woman who was subjected to a forced hysterectomy during this time was #FannieLouHamer, a renowned #CivilRights activist. Hamer described how nonconsensual sterilizations of working-class Black women in the South were so common that they were colloquially known as a '#MississippiAppendectomy'.
"Additionally, many Native American women were sterilized against their will. According to a report by historian Jane Lawrence, the Indian Health Service was accused of sterilizing nearly 25% of #Indigenous women during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1973, the year that Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Court, supposedly ensuring reproductive rights for all American women, the reproductive rights of thousands of Indigenous women were entirely ignored as they were forcibly sterilized.
"Forced sterilization, especially in exchange for a sentence reduction, occurs often in the criminal #LegalSystem today. Government-sanctioned efforts to prevent incarcerated people from reproducing were widespread in the 20th century, and still continue today. In 2017, a judge in #Tennessee offered to reduce the jail sentences of convicted people who appeared before him in court if they
'volunteered' to undergo sterilization. In 2009, a 21-year-old woman in #WestVirginia convicted of #marijuana possession underwent sterilization as part of her probation. In 2018, an #Oklahoma woman convicted of cashing a counterfeit check received a reduced sentence after undergoing sterilization at the suggestion of the judge. According to a report by the Center for Investigative Reporting, almost 150 women considered likely to return to prison were sterilized in California prisons between 2004 and 2003. Although they had to sign 'consent' forms, the procedure, when posed as an incentive for a reduced sentence, generates an ongoing debate about whether or not consent actually exists in these situations. Proponents of the sterilization of incarcerated individuals often cite a lack of 'personal responsibility,' when in reality, many of these individuals face a lack of support and resources. Even if incarceration was somehow the singular determinant of one’s morals and character, sterilization as part of a prison sentence is still a fundamental violation of the right to #ReproductiveAutonomy — something judges and prison officials choose to ignore."Read more:
https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2020/11/04/americas-forgotten-history-of-forced-sterilization/
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1. [Rolling Stone]: Tragedy and Farce
Cpac 2025: Conservative Elites Celebrate Trump as America Self-Immolates.
The annual MAGA gathering felt like watching the most comfortable, frantically aggrieved parts of Trump’s base yell at the TV. By Asawin Suebsaeng, February 22, 2025 -
What is the AfD? Germany’s far-right party, explained.
In the weeks ahead of the German election tomorrow, the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) consistently polled around 20%.
For the first time, the AfD poses a challenge to mainstream parties’ longstanding strategy of isolating the far right.
#Germany #AfD #Elections #Politics #FarRight #Nativism #Xenophobia #Nationalism #PoliticalScience #Science
