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What's the historical context? Like is Nazi Germany copying the restrictions put on after WW1?
Nazis got a lot of their ideas from the US, including lebensraum from Manifest Destiny.
Also the popularity of eugenics began in the US. You even read about it in The Great Gatsby.
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.
Also, unlimited executive power for the top dog
And where did the Romans get it from? Egypt? I guess it couldn’t have been China, because they were also doing their own version of this several thousand miles away.
The Romans were very open to having foreigners become citizens. Especially in the context of their time period.
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.
Israel?
No wait, Russia?
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.
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.