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[–] [email protected] 175 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They were always here.

I escaped from the south to the coasts, but I always tried to warn people how vile the worst of us were.

Nobody coukd believe it, but remember, Hitler wrote about the south as the model for Germany in mein kampf, and the nazis copied the Nuremberg Laws from Jim crow almost verbatim.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

They also took inspiration from the Catholic Church and the inquisition. The Church did ethnic cleansing long before the Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The also took inspiration from the Catholic Church

Not just inspiration but also direct material support.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The pope at that time looked the other way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Depends on which pope you are talking about. One of them got allied planes in his sights to get shot down.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nazi legal theorists saw the U.S. as a “pioneer” in racist legislation.

James Q. Whitman, in his book "Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law",

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I believe they got some of their ideas from American eugenicists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Wherever there is a state, there is fascism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've lived in much of the country, and I'm not white.

There is racism everywhere.

But the South is like going from Lebanon to the deepest reaches of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

They're monsters, and proud of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

That's not Islamophobic, the Taliban literally are misogynist, homophobic monsters.

To PHR's knowledge, no other régime in the world has methodically and violently forced half of its population into virtual house arrest, prohibiting them on pain of physical punishment.[238] — Physicians for Human Rights, 1998

The Taliban have committed a cultural genocide against the Afghan people by destroying their historical and cultural texts, artifacts and sculptures.[89]

The Taliban are about as Islamic as the Nazis are Christian.

Monsters are just monsters.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Imagine equivocating the Taliban and Muslims in general.