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"There are moments when the mask doesn’t just slip—it shatters, and what spills
out is the raw, unvarnished cruelty that has always been there, hiding beneath
the surface. That moment came this morning on
Fox & Friends. Under the bright
lights of America’s most-watched morning show, Brian Kilmeade leaned into the
camera, with all the casualness of a man ordering coffee, and suggested that
the answer to homelessness and mental illness might be “involuntary lethal
injection.”
“Just kill them.” He said.
And the most chilling part was not merely that he said it—it was the silence
that followed. His co-hosts didn’t gasp. They didn’t stop the conversation.
They didn’t even pause. They simply let it pass, as though exterminating the
most vulnerable people in our society were just another talking point, another
segment to move through before tossing to the weather.
This is not a slip of the tongue. This is not a joke gone awry. This is beyond
horrifying.
Fox News has crossed the threshold from fearmongering to
full-blown fascist rhetoric. Brian Kilmeade’s casual invocation of euthanasia
for the homeless is not just dehumanizing—it is genocidal thinking. Let’s not
soften what he said. Let’s not pretend it was hyperbole. We are talking about
Americans. Veterans. Trauma survivors. Survivors of abuse. Children who aged
out of foster care. Men and women battling schizophrenia, PTSD, bipolar
disorder—people failed again and again by the institutions that were supposed
to protect them. Instead of housing, instead of healthcare, instead of
compassion, Kilmeade’s “solution” was state-sanctioned execution. That isn’t
commentary. That isn’t “pro-life.” That is the language of fascism—broadcast
into living rooms before breakfast.
And this is how atrocities begin. Not with camps. Not with mass graves. But
with words. With “jokes” and “suggestions” that treat human lives as
disposable. With a normalization of cruelty so casual, so unremarkable, that it
barely causes a ripple. The Nazis didn’t begin with gas chambers. They began
with propaganda. They began with rhetoric that painted the vulnerable as
burdens, as drains, as unworthy. They began with media figures who smirked as
they suggested that extermination might be the answer. When someone in 2025 can
sit on a national morning show and casually float the same poison, we should
not treat it as entertainment. We should hear it for what it is: a siren,
screaming warning."
Via Janet Logan.
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
