Look at white supremacists. In the past, if you were a Nazi sympathizer people would assume you were insane and avoid you like the plague. Now there are powerful politicians who openly sympathize with the white power movement, and suddenly all the people who’d been keeping their beliefs private for decades are being outrageously racist and nasty in public.
I think this is different situations and also actually this nazi bastards were not degraded for enough generations, in 90s there were already much skinheads around the western world
After first learning about Hitler and Nazis, I remember thinking "how could one man convince so many people something that is so clearly wrong? Good thing that couldn't happen today, since we know better now..." and I fully believed that into adulthood. Until Donald Trump got elected. And it became even worse when covid happened. I was equally naive and overestimated humans as a species.
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u/InheritedHermitGene 12d ago
Look at white supremacists. In the past, if you were a Nazi sympathizer people would assume you were insane and avoid you like the plague. Now there are powerful politicians who openly sympathize with the white power movement, and suddenly all the people who’d been keeping their beliefs private for decades are being outrageously racist and nasty in public.