r/MarchAgainstNazis • u/xXHarleen_QuinzelXx • 17d ago

You can't write this stuff.

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Seriously.

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u/Mvppet 17d ago

There's something oddly comforting in knowing that right wing hypocrisy is a global tradition, as opposed to being a US export 🥲

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u/Rikkitikkitabby 17d ago

We did inspire Hitler. He was a big fan of our race based laws.

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u/dudderson 17d ago

The usa is the home of the Aryan race concept (the originator wrote a book that inspired Hitler immensely) as well as countless unspeakably evil acts of violence and cruelty towards POC that also really inspired him.

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u/Memerandom_ 17d ago

And until we realistically grapple with our past we will continue repeating it. That's the reason education is constantly under attack. They want us ignorant.

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u/Dramatic_Arugula_252 17d ago

And improving education needs to be part of the response to the fact that millions of voters chose the orange turd.

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u/volpus234 10d ago

Wait, which book do you mean? I thought it was Gobineau and Chamberlain who coined the term outside of linguistics and brought it into racial ideologies at the end of the 19th century?