Are you even tangentially familiar with US history? US citizens have historically been right up there with Nazi level hate. Racism didn’t just go away. It just became illegal to own slaves.
Nazis admired a lot of things from the US: eugenics, the genocide of the Native Americans, anti-semitic oligarchs like Ford.
The way WWII went made the US pump out anti-nazi propaganda to support its fight against the horrible regime. Let’s not forget that before, and after WWII the US Government supported many fascist groups as long as they were anti-communist. It was just convenient to foster anti-nazi sentiment during the war, especially with strange bedfellows like the USSR after they were betrayed by Hitler.
I wasn’t pretending racism just ‘went away’, but I had met so many bystanders (pretending racism wasn’t that big of a problem because they didn’t get to experience first hand) arguing it would eventually go away with the dinosaurs, until Charlottesville happened right in front of their eyes. That made even bystanders realize how serious it was.
Are you even tangentially familiar with US history? US citizens have historically been right up there with Nazi level hate. Racism didn’t just go away. It just became illegal to own slaves.
Nazis admired a lot of things from the US: eugenics, the genocide of the Native Americans, anti-semitic oligarchs like Ford.
The way WWII went made the US pump out anti-nazi propaganda to support its fight against the horrible regime. Let’s not forget that before, and after WWII the US Government supported many fascist groups as long as they were anti-communist. It was just convenient to foster anti-nazi sentiment during the war, especially with strange bedfellows like the USSR after they were betrayed by Hitler.
You think I don’t?
I wasn’t pretending racism just ‘went away’, but I had met so many bystanders (pretending racism wasn’t that big of a problem because they didn’t get to experience first hand) arguing it would eventually go away with the dinosaurs, until Charlottesville happened right in front of their eyes. That made even bystanders realize how serious it was.
“Tangentially familiar”? What is this? Reddit?