seeing "MAGA NIGHT" trending just fills my chest with fear and makes me think of all the violence and terror that my ancestors went through on Kristallnacht, which is essentially what the president is calling for

make no mistake, he is intentionally inciting violence and asking for radicalized far-right people and Nazis to kill black people, people of color, Jews, queer people, and anyone who dares to speak up or protest the violence of this country, police, and the government

if you are neutral in situations of injustice, if you call the cops on people protesting or choose against defending black people, choose against donating to funds, choose to stay silent, choose not to speak with white people about this, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

during the Nazi regime, things got bad because the government was taken over, yes, but the truth is that things got bad because people who could have chosen to fight back and stand up against the Nazis, who were told by Jews that something was going on, chose not to.

I will never forget one of the quotes at the Museum of Jewish Heritage that essentially says that yes the Nazis were responsible for the violence they wrought, but so were the people who were complicit and built the trains to take Jews to their deaths. I think about it every day.