I hate this kind of "reporting" even when the target probably deserves it:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-rufo-known-for-dei-and-crt-panics-tries-to-make-the-indian-question-a-thing wrote:That Keeperman, like Rufo, is so steeped in far-right and white nationalist spaces online, makes it all the more disturbing and odious that they named Episode 86 of “Rufo & Lomez” the “Indian Question.” The possible reference is striking.
Over 80 years ago, on January 20, 1942, SS General Reinhard Heydrich convened a gathering of 15 high-ranking Nazi officials at a villa in Wannsee, Germany to discuss “Endlösung der Judenfrage,” or “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question.”
“The Jewish Question” — or “The JQ,” as modern white nationalists frequently call it — is the antisemitic worldview framing the very existence of Jewish people as a problem in need of solving. It’s one of history’s most infamous rhetorical devices; three words that instantly dehumanized an entire subgroup of people, helping provide the permission structure for genocide. Heydrich’s 1942 conference, after all, was where Nazi leadership discussed the nuts-and-bolts of implementing their answer to the “question”: extermination.
That Keeperman and Rufo chose the phrase “the Indian Question” for this discussion reads as a deliberate, trollish nod to the “JQ” — a kind of shitpost meant to “trigger” the left, including reporters at places like Talking Points Memo, into hysterically comparing them to Nazis. The duo does not go as far to call for the extermination or genocide of people with Indian heritage in America, even if they do advocate policies of exclusion and expulsion that scholars have long noted can be precursors to even greater atrocities.
Except if you actually were knowledgeable about history you would know that "the Jewish question" was a debate for centuries in Europe after Britain allowed Jews to become citizens. And it was in this context that Marx used it nearly a century before Heydrich:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jewish_Question
In the context of the conversation as reported by TPM, it's actually the same exact context that Rufo and the weirdo are using it about Indians. That's not great, but these are anti-immigrant conservatives and they aren't going to take the other side, but that doesn't make it Nazism. You introduced the Nazis and claimed it was a reference to the Nazis because
you're the ignorant one about the historical context of the
very famous phrase.
And additionally it's not even specifically something used regarding Jews and only Jews, there have been countless "questions" of this type, especially in that same era:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_question
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