silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoDon’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.www.msnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1882arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1874arrow-down1external-linkDon’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.www.msnbc.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square92fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up37arrow-down5·15 days agoI don’t actually want to say this but the USA was founded on genocide. It literally killed the native americans to take their land, same as hitler attempted to do with the polish people.
minus-squarePalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·15 days agoHitler’s whole plan was modeled after American genocide, Manifest Destiny, and eugenics.
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·15 days agoEugenics in America predates the third Reich.
minus-squareJakeroxs@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·15 days agoGenerally something would need to exist for it to be used as a model in another thing, yes
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·15 days agoIt was also modeled on our auto industry and car culture.
minus-squareDoomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·15 days agoWe are the big brother to Nazism. The USA been playing that good fascist bad fascist game for a long time now.
minus-squaremodus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·15 days ago“That wasn’t genocide, it was an upgrade. They had no civilization. We rehabbed those savages.” –my grandfather, probably.
minus-squarethrobbing_banjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·15 days agoIf you sell them guns as you’re killing them, you get to call it a war and not genocide.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·15 days agoAnd…? Oh that was your whole point? Oh. Yeah dude, we fucking know.
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·15 days agoThat doesn’t mean we should keep doing it.
minus-squareburgerpocalyse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·15 days agoi see this sentiment a lot, and i just wonder if there are some people unaware that America was colonized by europeans
minus-squareripcord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·15 days agoOK so we should just let them keep doing it then
I don’t actually want to say this but the USA was founded on genocide. It literally killed the native americans to take their land, same as hitler attempted to do with the polish people.
Hitler’s whole plan was modeled after American genocide, Manifest Destiny, and eugenics.
Eugenics in America predates the third Reich.
Generally something would need to exist for it to be used as a model in another thing, yes
It was also modeled on our auto industry and car culture.
Also Jim Crow laws
We are the big brother to Nazism. The USA been playing that good fascist bad fascist game for a long time now.
“That wasn’t genocide, it was an upgrade. They had no civilization. We rehabbed those savages.” –my grandfather, probably.
If you sell them guns as you’re killing them, you get to call it a war and not genocide.
And…? Oh that was your whole point? Oh.
Yeah dude, we fucking know.
That doesn’t mean we should keep doing it.
i see this sentiment a lot, and i just wonder if there are some people unaware that America was colonized by europeans
OK so we should just let them keep doing it then