• Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    One problem facing America is that the generation that fought and defeated the Nazis is dying out by the day. Those with firsthand knowledge of the atrocities are being lost.

    The same thing is happening with the holocaust. Americans in particular have very short memories and a poor knowledge of history

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      2 months ago

      I mean, the real problem is that we gladly welcomed Nazis into the U.S. as soon as the war was over, and that our country as a whole never fully disagreed with their ideology or their methods. The U.S. loves to claim that they got involved in WW2 due to ideological reasons, but it’s pretty clearly untrue considering our treatment of black soldiers and Japanese-Americans of the time.

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        2 months ago

        I mean…we hosted nazi rallys in CHICAGO in the 1930s. How are we going to claim we’re the answer to the problem, even in the 1930s, when the problem was right there among us?

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          I’m pretty sure they got their ideas from us with the treatment of all folk who weren’t their temperament of white.