Been reading Isabel Wilkerson’s new book, “Caste,” and if you were of the opinion that the United States wasn’t nearly as bad as Nazi Germany, how wrong you are. Can’t encourage you enough to read this masterpiece.
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This is breathtakingly irresponsible. How is anyone supposed to trust your judgment after this horror show of an opinion?
What would you call it when a country that murdered millions of Jews learned their systems of genocide by watching America, and studying our history of racialized slavery, and great knack for racial terrorism?
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Yeah because 19th century racism and segregation following a difficult civil war is literally worse then murdering 6 million people. No one denies segregation/racism was engrained in our country during this time. But to equate the two is intellectually irresponsible.
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Slavery in the US was an abomination, but let’s not confuse it with an attempt to wipe an entire people off the face of the earth with industrial scale murder. The US didnt have a monopoly on slave trading or slavery
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Ummm basically the whole world used slavery back then?????
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The whole world did not use racialized slavery
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The Confederacy harnessed racial hatred toward an economic system using slave labor as its central input. That is undoubtedly one of history's great evils. But ... it is not the same as attempting, and meaningfully working toward, the extermination of an entire people group.
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We’re basically arguing over the desired outcome. The Nazis wanted to wipe Jews out. America needed Africans for the economy and while the goal wasn’t to exterminate, they basically did everything else and if death was the end result, so be it
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They also borrowed significantly from American laws .. which is why some Nazi scholars were in America studying racial terror in the South
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