The fascist Sudeten German Party was in fact *far more* popular with Sudeten Germans than the regular Nazis were back in the Fatherland - the SdP won a full 88% of Sudeten German votes in the last elections before the German occupation So no I don't feel that bad for them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis and
The intentional dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian empire was a huge problem. The 1920s was a time of enormous chaos in the East. It isn't surprising that people who lived in this world retreated back into ethnic identity.
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @TrueMetis and
It doesn't have to be surprising to have deserved consequences
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis and
So voting for the wrong party is grounds for being removed from your home? Do I read you rightly? I'm just curious, does this apply in our own time? Would you support doing the same thing to Trump voters, for instance?
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @TrueMetis and
The shooting war hasn't started yet but in our last civil war, much future harm could've been avoided had former Confederates been disenfranchised and expropriated, yes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis and
That's what a war is Losing a war has to have consequences Otherwise, you didn't actually win the war, and that means, in fact, that the war didn't actually end
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis and
This argument, prior to 1918 and really 1945 would have been considered unconscionable. Peace almost always came with amnesty in order to ensure that you actually got peace! This moderate view makes war less savage.
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @arthur_affect and
That “moderate” view is the reason reconstruction came to an end, slavery was reinstated in all but name, and a hundred years of Jim Crow was codified. That “moderate” view is also not a historically accurate account of how wars were concluded lol
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Replying to @sophisticaden @arthur_affect and
The end of the Civil War did not resolve every political crisis resulting from hundreds of years of chattel slavery, no. But the war actually ended! The armies left the field. They laid down their arms.
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @sophisticaden and
In a world where every enemy (and his family) is an ideological enemy you end up with permanent conflict and violence. I do not want to live in such a world.
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The world we live in is already a world of permanent conflict and violence, it just mostly happens to people you don't think matter The political violence you so deplore is just moving that conflict into a battlefield where people like you see it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophisticaden and
What was European antisemitism and the cycle of pogrom but one long, undeclared war? What was American slavery but one big endless war fought in little unseen battles every single day?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jlippincott_ and
The idea that Reconstruction's collapse followed by Redemption was a necessary evil because it gave us "peace" is a disgusting lie THERE WAS NO PEACE Ask the Black populations of the South how peaceful the 1880s were, how free of bullets and flames and fear the air was
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