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[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 43 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Sibshops@lemm.ee 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours 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 5 minutes ago

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

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

Also, unlimited executive power for the top dog

[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours 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.

[–] ultrachez@lemmy.world 3 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes 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.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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 2 points 4 hours 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.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 39 minutes ago

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