It’s estimated that at least 18,000 Rohingya have fled genocide in Arakan state just in the past six days. Estimates are as high as 2,000 but there’s no way to know yet how many have died at the hands of Burmese soldiers, how many assaulted, tortured, raped. We do know that several people, including little kids, have drowned attempting to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh.

Stop the genocide in Arakan state. Full human, democratic, civil, & refugee rights to Rohingya Muslims.

(Photo of Rohingya fleeing from The Stateless @Thestateless1)

Wouldn’t you know the very same people promoting the punch-a-fascist-in-the-face political approach are those who ridiculed all the massive protests against Trump & his policies? Isn’t it a surprise they’re the same ones who mocked the Arab Spring uprisings as orchestrated by the CIA, call the uprising against Assad’s dictatorship all jihadi head-choppers, denounce protesters in Venezuela as all rightwing, & denounced protesters in Hong Kong & Brazil as orchestrated by fascists? To the person, those who mock massive action against injustice promote political thuggery instead because they regard liberals as more dangerous than fascists & white supremacists. Not a new phenomenon at all. But in every new incarnation just as detestable, elitist, & infantile politically. It is political power that will back fascists down, not macho bravado & thuggery.