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Why do so many non-Americans have such a blind gap about America's horrors yet can recite their emotional revulsion, with all the standard expressions, about Nazi Germany? They claim to be "non-racial" unlike those Americans, but ignore the same lives, whitewash the same historical evils.

Have you ever considered why so many Americans can point to Germany's horrors but minimize and deny what happened in the U.S.? It is not just their patriotic mythology, it is because the horrors were inflicted as norms by their families, communities. Their churches, honored town leaders, etc.

Yes, those weren't simply place where racist people may yell slurs, they were death traps for African Americans. With the traps known and participated in by the majority of those white town's people. Maintained by police, judiciary, elected officials officially and personally.

What America Taught the Nazis In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in legal racism—the United States.

What America Taught the Nazis
In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in codified racism—the United States. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Through Nazi Eyes - Dissent Magazine The most radical Nazis were the most aggressive champions of U.S. law. Where they found the U.S. example lacking, it was because they thought it was too harsh.

America Through Nazi Eyes
The most radical Nazis were the most aggressive champions of U.S. law. Where they found the U.S. example lacking, it was because they thought it was too harsh. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/amer...

What Uncle Sam and Jim Crow Taught Hitler When Nazi lawyers went looking for racial legislation to emulate, they turned to the United States.

What Uncle Sam and Jim Crow Taught Hitler. When Nazi lawyers went looking for racial legislation to emulate, they turned to the United States. reason.com/2017/04/15/w...

Racialization of citizenship = segregation.

Before the civil rights movement era, there was John Brown, considered crazy for seeing the denial of humanity and basic civil rights as an abomination. He wasn't being cool, he was being ethical, decent, courageous.

I find it terrible, which any ethical person should. I don't have an axle, I'm a person.

Did she record that Hitler admired the racialization of citizenship in America, the enforcement and social acceptance (among white people) for segregation laws, and sent Nazi lawyers to study and copy them to make Nazism "better"? She couldn't have.

Are you saying Anne Frank covered the U.S. civil rights movement, slavery. and the genocide of Native people, in her diary? Admittedly, it has been a very long time since I've read it.

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However, I know that the most marginalized people in the line of fire stood up against the horrors they faced, and I believe if more Americans actually resist, not just wring hands and post sad comments, a far more privileged population can shut this down. If they dare to be true opposition.

Black students were banned from schools simply for being Black, and now "international students" are targeted with all of us knowing which ones they mean. I have family members that remember sundown towns, violent threats about segregation laws, harassed by segregationist (ICE) enforcers..

Trumplicans are specifically using "America First" and evoking the "ideal life" of the segregation era, replacing confederate names on public buildings and otherwise acting like the Daughters of Confederacy, don't bode well. Now a broader swath of America gets to see how that era was for Black folk.

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Let me know where I said something to the contrary.

I didn't say that was a new idea, did I?

I said regardless of what desperate people feel driven to do, the burden should be on our laws and their enforcement, and those in position to expose them.

The stories of "every day" horrors in America have been disregarded because those who committed the horrors would be shamed, exposed by them. Many Americans can talk about Hitler/Holocaust but not details of segregation, slavery, trail of tears, residential schools, genocide on this land.

That makes sense but I put the burden on us to stop the employers, for law enforcement/courts to respond efficiently to those who report corrupt employers. Now we have Republicans loosening laws so children can work at night, in bars, in dangerous factories - while defunding public education.

American streets, shelters, motels, are filled with Americans who’d be thrilled to have consistent food and a safe, secured, even if shared with 12, home. Note: All those poor nations those immigrants come from also have rich, “middle class” people.

What if nobody should work for peanuts and instead of relying on desperate immigrants to accept less, the nation instead upholds a legal standard and ethical stance about fair wages for all? That seems much better.

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The real difficulty is to fight Trump means having to fight against the people, cultural values, historical myths, that forms MAGA. And it isn't those scary "Angry Blacks." A first step: Admit that MAGA is less Nazi, than what your g/parents considered normal, good ol' American life for decades.

Yet in 2025, many of the most privileged, well-educated, financially stable by comparison non-minority people are wailing about how America has never faced such terrors. Oddly, while remaining ever so friendly with their family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc. who cheer for this terror.

The most legally and socially marginalized people, descendants of a community legally-ruled as slaves, chattel for centuries, often within miles of the plantations that held their elders captive, faced lynch mobs, cross-burning, body burning klans, violent segregationists to stand for their rights.

in the 1960s I had relatives in America fighting for their basic rights as citizens - as others were beaten, murdered for doing so. MAGA is explicitly resurrecting the culture they faced and dismantling the laws lives were lost to achieve. This is the weight of centuries for some.

Watch a movie about what some Americans actually endured during segregation. Lots of people learn that Martin Luther King, Jr. existed, but don't actually know what was happening that was so horrible people risked their lives to lynch mobs that hanged/burned people alive. Those lives can inform you.

The ones who endured segregation have a good idea, especially since the MAGA agenda is explicitly dismantling the civil rights protections they were denied and fought to gain. Our community sees the restoration of confederate naming and monuments, and have a damn good idea about what that means.