Oscar Shindler: pure cope.
Pure copium, sorry. The US invasion of Iraq should never be used as a template for anything. The US itself is a fascist nation and has been since it’s inception.
“I’m fighting the system from the inside” is 100% pure cope, too. There was plenty of german resistance to the Nazi regime from outside the system.
testfactor@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
bearboiblake@pawb.social 15 hours ago
To be clear, I’m not saying that it never happens, I’m saying that for most people who feel that they can do more good fighting the system from inside, that’s pure cope. The story of Oskar Schindler is interesting because it is exceptional.
CainTheLongshot@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I never said Iraq should be the template, I implicitly said Post-WW2 recovery should be. I was referring to Iraq as an example of what not to do, because it was specifically called out for a purge of Nazi officials at every level, which is exactly what happened in Iraq.
As for German resistance, yes of course there were forces outside of government, and they used insiders for information. To believe anything otherwise is just being willfully ignorant, and a waste of time.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Eh, 100% pure cope is a bit hyperbolic.
There are at least tens of thousands of accounts of Jews who lived, in part, because of the intercession of people who existed within the Nazi infrastructure. We just don’t most of the names because people couldn’t actually use their names when operating within resistance networks, but there are some famous accounts, like Schindler and The Pianist.
It is not always possible for people to work outside of a fascist system, and to pretend that it is is absurdly idealistic.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 15 hours ago
Yeah, you’re right, I’ve amended my original comment.