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Aella
@Aella_Girl
bruh do you people think every widespread historical culture with horrific norms was exclusively populated with sociopaths? I grew up in a culture with many kind, wonderful people who also believed women were mentally inferior and should be stay at home housewives.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
You'd rather marry: A) someone who is extremely kind, empathetic, honest, and loyal, but believes that Germany and Japan were the good guys of WW2, their misdeeds greatly exaggerated B) someone average on personal morality, but who has conventional political views (h/t anon)
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Mark Waterson
@Pertplus1
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@Aella_Girl
You now reference “historical culture”, but the original question (I think) implied a present-day person who believes Nazis were good. To come to that belief in the present day you’d really have to seek it out, it’s not a common upbringing (unlike eg misogyny)
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Pertplus1
sure, but the person who submitted the og question referenced China as an example of a place where they met wonderful people who also held beliefs he found horrific. Historical is an easy way to say other, but there's absolutely other cultures on earth today who fit this.
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Nick Brown
@nwbvt
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@Pertplus1
If we were talking about someone from, say, Eastern Europe, where Nazi atrocities have to be put in comparison to Soviet atrocities, I would be more sympathetic. But if we are talking about a typical American who thinks "You know, Hitler wasn't that bad", that's a bit different.
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E. Wall
@ewall1498
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@Pertplus1
I imagine if you were one of the minority groups actively effected by their horrific beliefs, you’d see through the facade of “niceness” more easily. The Uyghurs aren’t saying, “Other than tolerating and perpetrating my family’s genocide, they’re wonderful people.”
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