America and the world have seen MAGA before

Dear Editor,

Western civilization has seen the MAGA movement before, with its systematic discrimination based on financial power, illegitimate political power, faulty science, religious chauvinism, racism, and sexism.

In the Middle East today, Israel uses biblical “chosen people” ideology to discriminate against and make perpetual war against Palestinians.

Some decades ago in South Africa, MAGA was known as apartheid, which was based on white supremacy. MAGA is taking the same approach against brown-skinned Hispanics today.

During World War II, MAGA was manifest in Japanese internment camps in America and ethnic cleansing of Jews in Germany.

At the turn of the twentieth century in America, MAGA sexist discriminatory thinking was responsible for spawning the Women’s Voting Rights movement.

In the late 1800s, MAGA was defined by “Robber Baron” monopolism and anti-unionism.
In the post-Civil War south, MAGA law knew a complementary system called Jim Crow law limiting black civil rights relating to property and education.

In early American history, MAGA was called Manifest Destiny, which was used to isolate Native Americans on the reservation.

Today, MAGA is trashing scientific evidence and due process in public affairs based on racist, sexist, and force-based impulses like these earlier ones in history.

Kimball Shinkoskey