The racism wasn't some excuse used to build the war machine, the war machine was a tool to realize the dreams of racism
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When they were losing the war the Nazis diverted resources FROM the front lines TO the camps
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Racism is not some side effect caused by war. Racism is the cause of war and a beast that all participants in war must appease
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Here's the ugly truth, typical Americans didn't give a shit abt the abstract "freedom" vs "fascism" debate
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Just a few years before Pearl Harbor a ton of Americans thought Hitler seemed like a cool guy
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Pearl Harbor was a chance to harness American racism to the cause of beating Hitler and boy did they
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Grotesque caricatures of the German "Hun", sure, but also tons and tons of hideous cartoons of the evil animal "Jap"
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Just check out any media from the period, they were stoking hatred of Japanese as subhuman monsters like their lives depended on it
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Bc they really believed that winning the war, or at least getting Americans to keep voting for war, did depend on it
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One of the grotesque little tidbits of the war is there was tons of work for Chinese- and Korean-American actors
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They were churning out propaganda films about evil Japanese soldiers every day and all the real Japanese-American actors were unavailable
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