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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI hear "nationalism" and I picture Hitler, destroying 'others', and the horrors of World War II
The wage of nationalism is death.
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I hear "nationalism" and I picture Hitler, destroying 'others', and the horrors of World War II (Original Post)
ck4829
Apr 2019
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FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)1. What I've gleened from recent events is...
That Americans are fine with Fascism.
WWII was fought entirely to keep out German accents.
Girard442
(6,082 posts)2. Prior to America's entry into WWII, there were Hitler supporters here.
The then president of the Southern Baptist Convention, M. E. Dodd, visited Nazi German before the war and thought it was all just splendid and it was way overexaggerated how they mistreated the Jews and besides they deserved it anyway.
enough
(13,262 posts)3. I think many if not most Americans have very little conception of history. NT
Buzz cook
(2,474 posts)4. Yup, the Nazis messed up a lot of things.
The swastika used to be a peace symbol and the nazis fucked that up.
Nationalism used to mean that it is better to unite as a larger geographical unit, than to exist as a several petty states. The nazis fucked that up too.
Tiki torches used to be kitschy yard ornaments and the nazis fucked them as well.
Nazis, fucking good things up since 1920.