it's like some sort of bizarre extended apologia for one's racist relatives...https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/862388149888135170 …
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It's straight up attempting to do the whole "There were good people fighting for the Nazis" thing
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"Fascism was popular in the 30s for valid reasons, don't criticize if you weren't there", etc etc
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I'm reminded of the op-ed abt the author's ex-Nazi grandma who just kind of effortlessly let questions abt the Holocaust bounce off her
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"Oh no one we knew cared about the whole, the whole Jewish thing, that was just unfortunate"
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"You have to understand how bad the economy was because of weak government"
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Important to remember the # of "respectable" Germans who joined the Nazi party then after the war said they weren't THAT kind of Nazi v high
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Also reminded of a review of Bridge of the River Kwai talking abt the theme of the film - being a "good soldier" as somehow its own virtue
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And the point being no, being a "good soldier" or a "good engineer" FOR THE BAD GUYS is BAD and it's worse the better you are
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Wars are ABOUT THINGS and vacuous "support the troops" rhetoric that valorizes wartime virtues in isolation deliberately obscures this
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(Cf Nazi "war heroes", the Yasukuni shrine, Confederate war memorials, etc)
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