This is a highly persistent myth, even though arming slaves offended the CSA so much they voted near-unanimously against it when they were about to lose The Union's "colored regiments" were so offensive to them they gave no quarter to ALL Union soldiers in battles they were inhttps://twitter.com/MarkSpatny/status/1274017918339002370 …
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Hence one of the first steps to removing Jewish personhood in Nazi Germany was Hitler banning Jews from the military (Some heavy irony there, since it was a Jewish officer who had recommended Hitler for the Iron Cross in WWI)
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I notice one line in a lot of histories vaguely linking the civil rights movement to WW2 as Black soldiers returning home to "find" racism, like it was new or they'd just decided to want citizenship. Rather than military training/weapons/credentials being empowering.
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That, and having been to countries without the same legal segregation
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Capacity for military service (or "right to kill" as you say) in an arrangement where militants represent nations, is capacity for citizenship. This makes clearer the relevance of (so-called) trans statelessness of gender, Jewish statelessness of place, & Black African ancestry.
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