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Zorro

(15,731 posts)
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 03:41 PM Mar 2023

Conservative Historian Claims Diversity Ultimately Doomed Third Reich

NEW YORK—Bemoaning “woke culture” for infecting the empire and ultimately leading to its untimely demise, conservative historian Antony Reed told reporters Thursday that diversity was what ultimately doomed the Third Reich.

“Sadly, had Hitler and his Nazi generals not been so obsessed with the ideals of diversity, equity, and inclusion within their institutions, the Third Reich as we know it would still be around today,” said Reed, adding that Nazi Germany would have easily defeated the Allied forces and conquered all of Europe had it not been so focused on making people of all races, genders, and sexualities feel included, valued, and safe.

“On May 8, 1945, the once-bustling Third Reich collapsed, all because the woke left convinced them they had to be nicer to people who weren’t straight white men. The Nazis insisted on holding white men back and went on to lose the war because they were too scared of offending people or getting ‘cancelled.’”

Reed went on to lament the fact that Hitler’s terrifying legacy as a blue-haired social-justice warrior obsessed with diversity and inclusion still haunts Germany to this day.

https://www.theonion.com/conservative-historian-claims-diversity-ultimately-doom-1850233848

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Conservative Historian Claims Diversity Ultimately Doomed Third Reich (Original Post) Zorro Mar 2023 OP
The war killed it. They would have kept rolling on. onecaliberal Mar 2023 #1
Gotta admit, had me going for a minute there ... Hugh_Lebowski Mar 2023 #2
Me, too wryter2000 Mar 2023 #6
HA! You almost got me! leftieNanner Mar 2023 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author The Unmitigated Gall Mar 2023 #4
I thought, "I guess I should have expected this." Then I looked at the link. Thanks. NT mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 #5
Dammit. Hosed. The Unmitigated Gall Mar 2023 #7
Ever harder to pick out the Onion articles cos dem Mar 2023 #8
Not "The Onion" or "Borowitz" but pretty good. brush Mar 2023 #9
Got me! Going to write a scathing reply until I noticed the link. TreasonousBastard Mar 2023 #10
You had me going man. Nt BootinUp Mar 2023 #11
Actually being "Anti-Woke" Mad_Machine76 Mar 2023 #12
It's a satire site. johnp3907 Mar 2023 #13
The Nazi brass were actually diversified in an embarrassing way Shermann Mar 2023 #14
God I love The Onion. That is all. n/t ms liberty Mar 2023 #15

Response to Zorro (Original post)

brush

(53,759 posts)
9. Not "The Onion" or "Borowitz" but pretty good.
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 03:55 PM
Mar 2023

Hitler actually did cause the defeat by "holding white men back" with several bad decisions. He pulled the German tank corps back when they had the British Army trapped on Dunkirk beach. Also he pulled back his bombers and rockets from the Battle of Britain prematurely so as to have more resources to invade Russia on a second front, his worst decision of all.

Plus he divided his forces on the Russian front into three zones there, ironically one into Ukraine.

What an idiot, he didn't know better than the generals, thank God. I wouldn't be good at learning German.

Mad_Machine76

(24,401 posts)
12. Actually being "Anti-Woke"
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 04:11 PM
Mar 2023

probably hurt them more in the long-term because I believe they did get rid of a lot of decorated gay soldiers and leaders (Night of The Long Knives). The absolute last thing that anybody could call Nazi Germany would be "Woke" Gawd the stupid burns!

Shermann

(7,409 posts)
14. The Nazi brass were actually diversified in an embarrassing way
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 04:58 PM
Mar 2023

Oh, sure they were all white male Caucasians, but few were blonde-haired, blue-eyed athletic superior race German poster boys. Heydrich was really the only one who could pass for that. Hitler was a runty Austrian, Himmler had lifelong poor health, Goring was a pudgy drug addict, and I'm not sure what was up with Goebbels (but he had issues).

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