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… I’m sorry, what?
The Jews in Germany made up a large portion of the 1%. They were often business owners and bankers, and they, often seen as privileged, were targets of the ire of many downtrodden working class people, suffering from the inflation and economic turmoil of post-WWI-Germany.
This made it just as easy for 1930′s Germans to say “Gas the Jews” as it is for people today to say “Eat the Rich” or “Fuck white people” or any number of racially charged hate that isn’t considered hateful based on definitions that people are changing to fit their ideology. It’s dehumanization, and it’s how you get people to sit down and ignore a six-million-man genocide.
Which is why it’s not only dangerous, but evil, to simply assume someone is privileged, or has less worth as a human being, because of the color of their skin or how they were born, especially if you think it’s a righteous and noble thing, or that you’re doing it for the greater good, or to help those less fortunate. Going down that path leads to atrocities.
… well dang ._.
It’s why I, and many people like me, find it unsettling that this exact trend is taking root again, by people like Antifa, who show themselves very willing to take the exact path that the Nazi regime did, calling others Nazis and fascists while they, themselves, exhibit fascist traits and use Nazi tactics, believing with their whole heart that what they’re doing is good, committing violence for their cause because they think it will lead to a better future, and insisting that we give up the greatest true deterrent against evil, an armed population, just as Germany did before six million innocent people were slaughtered.
We all must always remember that the Holocaust was not carried out by evil people – only orchestrated by them. It was carried out by people. Normal people. People who really, truly believed that their violence was for the good of those who were suffering at the hands of the privileged and the greedy and the evil and the heartless. People who were just following orders.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, they say.
I’m in love with this post. Yes. Every single thing they just said, yes.
hey i’m a Jew and this is why generalizations make me uncomfortable
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