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We are just days away from the general elections in the United States, and with it has increased the anti-immigrant rhetoric by the Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump, who has classified this entire population in the American Union as despicable people, even dehumanizing them, actions that evoke fascism, a totalitarian doctrine that exalts nationalism and classifies what is not admitted as the enemy.
This was stated by sociologists and hosts of the radio program Por la Libre this Saturday, October 26, Anna Lee Mraz, Manuel Ortiz and Hans Leguízamo, who agreed that Trump's accusations against the immigrant community in the United States have reached limits that border on even fascism like that imposed in nationalist Germany led by Adolfo Hitler.
"We are seeing calls, not only from the United States, but from other parts of the world, a call to warn about fascism, which is nothing more than an act of persecuting and pointing out others who make them uncomfortable for reasons of ethnicity, religion or political thought," said Manuel Ortiz.
Ultimately, he stressed, it refers to a powerful sector that has the ability to target a particular group and point them out as the enemy.
And the fact is that these types of accusations are nothing new, as they date back to the Holy Inquisition, when men were accused of being heretics and women of being witches, who were tortured, many of them to death, and it was only necessary to point them out, obtain a forced confession or label them as carrying out "demonic" work.
"In the construction of the enemy, a whole typology is made of what he is like, and he is described just as witches were described," he pointed out while explaining that those who apply it put themselves in the role of the "anointed one," a powerful god who considers that he represents the entire voice of a people, and those who are not with him are against him.
In this regard, she said that there are voices warning about the return of fascism, particularly from candidate Donald Trump, who never misses an opportunity to repeatedly say that immigrants are criminals, "that is, he paints us like witches were painted, as enemies, he brands us so that wherever we are recognized, we are persecuted."
This rhetoric has gone so far as to say that migrants have a DNA problem and that their genetic makeup makes them prone to crime, along with a host of other negative adjectives.
"That is precisely fascism, that is how Hitler started, and sometimes we forget it. One might wonder how far Hitler is from Trump, that we should not compare things that have nothing to do with each other, but that is how he started, saying that Jews were genetically inferior beings, dehumanizing them, and what we have seen in this campaign period by candidate Donald Trump is an attempt to dehumanize us who are in this country as immigrants," he stressed.
In response, sociologist Anna Lee Mraz recalled the importance of voting, as well as the importance of not voting, since everything has consequences, and in Trump's case, even going so far as to attack women if he comes to power, since he has already made clear his intentions with this sector of the population, as well as with immigrants, minorities and groups such as the LGBTQ+.
?Much of what we have heard is that voting for one or the other is the same, that the product is almost always the same, when in reality there are many. The danger of putting someone in the running, and I say putting, because if we use the vote or not voting, and in that sense allowing others to vote for him or voting for him directly is dangerous, because of the type of person he is, someone who uses the other in the construction of the enemy, as a scapegoat; in Nazi propaganda it was the Jews and with Trump it is immigrants, but it is also women, there is a hunt to subjugate women as it was done 100 years ago in the world?, Mraz specified.
To hear more about this topic, listen to the full Por la Libre program from this Saturday, October 26, 2024.
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