The Nazis were bad because they were xenophobic towards people who were peaceful towards them. They made up stories about how terrible their enemies were to justify their behavior. It's on all of us to be careful & make sure we don't fall into the same trap.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @arthur_affect and
There's this particularly annoying thing that you ratcultists keep doing, which is trying to invent facially neutral ways to describe evil behavior. But the thing is, EVIL BEHAVIOR ISN'T FACIALLY NEUTRAL.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
The Nazis were bad because they were violent and xenophobic toward PEOPLE OF OTHER ETHNICITIES and DISABLED PEOPLE and LGBT PEOPLE. They made up stories about how terrible THE JEWS and THE ROMA and DISABLED PEOPLE and TRANS PEOPLE were to justify their behavior.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
Generalizing from the particular here doesn't actually illuminate some greater truth; rather, it elides the entire history of WHY those groups, WHY those stories, WHY that particular exercise of power and violence rather than some other.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
I'm not sure it matters why the Nazis did what they did? It was evil regardless of their reasons, wasn't it?
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @arthur_affect and
Your entire question illustrates an error in your thinking. You can't talk about "what they did" without talking about their reasons, that's the whole point. "What they did" is MURDERED JEWS AND ROMA AND DISABLED PEOPLE AND TRANS PEOPLE.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
Please explain to me why "the entire history of WHY those groups" is relevant to how atrocious Nazis were. Because it sounds to me like you're saying if the history had been different their actions would've been justified.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
Doing the exact same things to the Nazis that the Nazis did to other people would have been extremely justified
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
So you agree that if the history had been different, Nazi actions would have been justified?
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
Yes, obviously The "history" is 100% what makes something justified or unjustified It is what justifies things
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Lol this is why you people are thick as bricks You really do believe in context-free moral judgment, like you can parachute in from your view from nowhere and just declare things are good or evil from your lofty white man objectivity
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
Like the main character in Memento, born again into every situation fresh and new and innocent as the virgin snow Seeing someone fight off a rapist all "But they're HITTING! I was taught in preschool that HITTING IS BAD!"
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