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In reply to the discussion: I have never felt so alone in all my life. [View all]loyalsister
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I like documentaries.
The article I posted was from the NY Times about how the US didn't take him seriously.
The US population was not fully aware, but many in power approved of Hitler's implementation of ideas born here. Beginning with a meeting between Charles Davenport, Harry Laughlin, and the American Breders Association along with a malinterpretation of genetics and the bell curve.
They were mainstream ideas. Sometimes expressed in teaching youth how to select suitable mates (in textbooks) and worse in involuntary sterilization of people with diabilities and people of color. Some was rooted in good intentions (Margaret Sanger, Alexander Graham Bell, and Helen Keller wanted to keep people who may suffer from being born). Some had the disgusting but not necessarily malicious goal to create a stronger work force, and the malicious racist element wanted to eliminate undesireables. They were working together with common goals which are with us today.
The US strived for a "Nordic superior race," - Germany for an "aryan master race" tomato tomahto.
If it hadn't happened in Germany it could easily have happened here. And, here we are and it appears that the hateful underpinnings of what happened in Germany were and are alive and well where it all started.
I'm working with a local activist group intent on dismantling racism. We seem to be making a difference.