• BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip
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    24 hours ago

    Here’s an ethical question:

    If the distinction is minor, but saying that we should look at our own evil history instead of somewhere else’s; however, doing so would like reduce some people’s opposition support, should you do it?

    I think calling them the gestapo, a tool of what many Americans would identify as the most evil regime, is more likely to get support from people than saying literally anything negative about America. Americans are dumb.

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      21 hours ago

      But the problem is that this reinforces their denial, which leads to them continuing to support other organizations that do the exact same things.

      This isn’t a *minor distinction", this is the very thinking that let ICE grow and expand for two decades.

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      20 hours ago

      The gestapo were a cheap knock off of the American things.

      The Nazis were inspired by the American lunacy of old times, if you remember well.

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        19 hours ago

        Indeed, does that matter? The average American doesn’t know shit about history, especially not the darker parts of American history.

        They definitely know about the nazis.