• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    The mental gymnastics needed to justify using the freaking House of the United States to punish a single person who they likely have never met, for an immutable personal trait?

    One of the big downsides to pretending 100% of Holocaust victims were Jewish is that the 50% who weren’t were sent to the camps for other reasons.

    Like being Trans, or any other kids and of LGBT. The problem was even “the good guys” were anti-lgbt back then, just look at how they treated their war heroes:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Homosexuality_and_indecency_conviction

    And then America, who had taken in all types of Nazis scientists, denied Turing entry just to fucking take a vacation.

    I think this is why so many people are shocked by trump winning, people actually believed Americans were inherently good, and they believed it.

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      4 hours ago

      One of the big downsides to pretending 100% of Holocaust victims were Jewish is that the 50% who weren’t were sent to the camps for other reasons.

      Keep in mind that the incoming administration and it’s cultists done seem to be interested in distancing themselves from Hitlwr and his Nazis.

      • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        They’ve distanced themselves from the optics, but not the principles. They think that by not flying swastikas everywhere that somehow that’s different enough to pass.