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Post by Obadiah on Mar 9, 2019 6:17:27 GMT -6
Yes, yes it is. Like even with the clear warcrimea against the Nazis we did commit they were more likely to be protected under our command as opposed to our allies. The whole thing is just... Kind of a travesty and we don't talk about it much because history conveniently forgot that until we found out about Death Camps (again different from concentration camps which we did not openly oppose until basically after we invaded) Eugenics was popular here. It was supposed to be a solution for poverty and the unintelligent instead of euthanizing populations though we just sterilized them the records are public on that too. If it wasn't Germany that it did it would've been us I have full confidence in that, I mean you see it with the model for the internment camps basically pulled right out of Nazi Germany and this was a "good solution" and rather than dealing with it the end result of the war just perpetuated the idea of American cultural and technocratic superiority which has manifested now in rampant xenophobia and ethnocentrism on top of systematically masked racism. That was very well said.
Thing is it makes me wonder what exactly has to change to move people in the other direction. The rise of the right is seemingly a worldwide thing and it grows because if feeds of people's fears. Its not so much, the Right, as it is an appeal to tribalism - though it does seem to be happening more on the Right currently. Tribalism, since it seems so common, might just be part of human DNA. Since technology has empowered us to communicate so easily, someone somewhere will always be around that can make a compelling appeal to it, and, even if the percent of people who believe it is small, it works out to a substantial number.
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