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Who is teaching this class? (lemmy.ml)
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[-] ultrachez@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide

Nazi Germany's inspiration was seeing the 'liberal democratic' world's response to this.

The only reason they didn't get away with it even though according to western 'liberal' world it is okay to do that to your own citizens is because Germany tried to implement the model in other countries.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 70 points 1 day ago

The British

[-] Sibshops@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago

What's the historical context? Like is Nazi Germany copying the restrictions put on after WW1?

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

The Nazis praised the US's "scientific" approach to racism and eugenics.

Measuring people's heads; IQ tests served in a person's non-native language and relied on specific knowledge of American culture; Plain old racist rhetoric like calling people "dangerous", "criminals" with no evidence. (Sound familiar?)

Anything to prove that black and foreign people were inferior and should be exploited, in a classic "we know the answer and we must cherry pick the data to reach that conclusion".

A lot of these tools were taken up by the Nazis for their persecution of Jews, and now they're coming right back around.

This is an educated meme.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.ml 9 points 23 hours ago

Hitler sent a certain Dr Mengele to study at the Carnegie Institution to learn about the 'Nordic Race'.
Why is it always the philanthropists?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

they become philanthropists to assuage their guilt?

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago

That is giving them too much credit.
It is no more than a cover for doing more horrible things.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 1 day ago

Nazis got a lot of their ideas from the US, including lebensraum from Manifest Destiny.

[-] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago

Also the popularity of eugenics began in the US. You even read about it in The Great Gatsby.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

It began in England. Out of Darwinism. Once people had to accept that the Ancient Greek philosophies of “the ideal form” couldn’t exist. (Because of evolution, everything is always evolving) But you could use Darwin and Mendel and genetics to engineer the biology you preferred.

[-] Sibshops@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

That doesn't seem right. Expansionism started way before that.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 22 hours ago

Hitler explicitly referred to US expansionism when discussing lebensraum.

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

A U.S. Supreme Court case on sterilization was cited by the defense at the Nuremberg Trials: Buck v. Bell.

[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Also, unlimited executive power for the top dog

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today -2 points 1 day ago

No one... The paradox is about to collapse upon itself.

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Israel?

No wait, Russia?

[-] thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago

No no no. We are currently blaming China, or was it Ukraine? Idk I can't keep up who America is blaming for its own faults.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Trump is blaming our own citizens (the ones that didn't vote for him). Is everyone not aware we are his number one target?

It's not a secret.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

I wish

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