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Visiting libs: not so friendly reminder that double genocide theory is nazi propaganda according to Jewish holocaust scholars (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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I've seen too much of this. No, the nazis and the Soviets were not equivalent.

Do. Better.

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[-] TillieNeuen@hexbear.net 94 points 2 years ago

One man's manifest destiny is another man's lebensraum.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 69 points 2 years ago

My favorite thing to say to piss off rightwingers and make libs go 😨 is “The only difference between lebensraum and manifest destiny is the latter was completed successfully”

[-] TillieNeuen@hexbear.net 64 points 2 years ago

It is wild to me that I was an adult when I finally found out that Hitler was actually inspired by the US's attempted genocide of Native Americans. That's something everyone should know.

[-] Jobasha@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

I live in one of the deeply unserious European countries where double genocide is essentially our mainstream WW2 narrative. I was an adult when I found out that I've been literally taught a nazi distortion of the Holocaust in middle school and high school. I had to do my own research to realize the scope of my country's participation in the Holocaust, which was relegated to footnotes in history textbooks and glossed over by my teachers. You can bet that the Ribbentop-Molotov pact was repeatedly hammered into us as this vile alliance between equally evil empires, though.

I beg any liberals who might be reading this thread in genuine good faith: read the article linked further up and do your best to at least consider the perspective it presents.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

You can bet that the Ribbentop-Molotov pact was repeatedly hammered into us as this vile alliance between equally evil empires, though.

Same here in the US. WW2 started when Hitler and Stalin made an evil alliance to take over and partition Poland. Pay no attention to the very similar non-aggression pacts the UK, France, etc. had made with Nazi Germany.