lol the American west guys were not just like “I’m just following orders” they were like “lets murder all these native people it’s awesome.” Let’s not whitewash that shitty part of our history, fellow whites.
History never repeats itself but it rhymes
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Cruxifux@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
PineRune@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The Nazis and ICE were and are the same way, they just try to paint it in a different picture to not look like a bad guy.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Ok, very fair point.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
yea the whole point is that “just following orders” is an excuse while they know damn well they’re complying to a fascist regime
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I think that’s the point, it’s not “just follow order”, they’re okay with it. It’s the banality of evil.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It’s not just white people who were “just following orders”
juliebean@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
same for the others honestly. ‘i was just following orders’ is just what one says when you get called out for doing heinous shit so you can pass the buck to someone else in your organization.
funkajunk@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
“fellow whites”, as if people alive today had anything to do with it. That’s racism, and I hope you can do better.
Glide@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
And yet we benefit from it every single day all the same, while throwing out hands up and screaming “that isn’t on me!”
We’re not responsible for what happened to them then, but we are responsible in what we do about it now. Turning away that responsibility while continuing to reap the benefits is racism.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Did you even read the rest of that sentence?
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Yes, because inherited benefits make a mockery of meritocracy, which is the mechanism through which we tell people they got what they deserve and that we use as a shield when people tell us we need to share. “No, I merited it”
guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
low effort post, please understand
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Don’t mind the anti-ai police They are just following orders you Lemmy shitpost isn’t for low effort content you see. They’re not against your message of course, where did you get thatidea?
StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
None of them are just following orders. All of them take great enjoyment in what they do.
zymagoras777@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Exactly, even in nazi Germany soldiers could refuse to kill civilians without very harsh consequences. Those who did, enjoyed doing it.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Permission to be bad seduces most people
REDACTED@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Interesting how the AI flop made the first guy hold his hair
Bgugi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is not a shitpost.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No one joins ICE to be a good person.
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
you forgot to add the chinese concentration camps to your AI slop image
mkwt@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In the 1830s they were doing that shit in the southeast: Georgia, Carolinas, Alabama, and so on. They didn’t really get going clearing the “west” until after the war and into the twentieth century. Geronimo surrendered for the last time in the 1880s, and he died in 1909 as a POW at Ft. Sill. Oklahoma had gained statehood only two years before, in 1907.
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Not sure comparing genocides with deportation is adequate. The two first were a lot worse.
NastyNative@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Also where is the poster depicting Israeli soldiers killing Palestinian children?
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Now this is a genocide
Letsdothisok@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, this is ignorant as hell
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
If you don’t recognize that we’re just at the start, sure.
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I don’t think it’s going to happen. The USA is crazy right now, but not this much.
peteyestee@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Why are they all hot?
gencha@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Hmmm that refreshing smell of holocaust trivialization in the morning…
flango@lemmy.eco.br 4 weeks ago
Nop, it just smells like you are wrong.
As Whitman shows, the Nuremberg Laws were crafted in an atmosphere of considerable attention to the precedents American race laws had to offer. German praise for American practices, already found in Hitler’s Mein Kampf, was continuous throughout the early 1930s, and the most radical Nazi lawyers were eager advocates of the use of American models. But while Jim Crow segregation was one aspect of American law that appealed to Nazi radicals, it was not the most consequential one. Rather, both American citizenship and antimiscegenation laws proved directly relevant to the two principal Nuremberg Laws—the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law. Whitman looks at the ultimate, ugly irony that when Nazis rejected American practices, it was sometimes not because they found them too enlightened, but too harsh.
Reference: press.princeton.edu/…/hitlers-american-model
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
leftists being so left they’re right
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Generative AI is the tool of the enemy, we don’t need it.
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I think the message would be stronger without the ai art
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Yeah, like most such memes I stole it from another post, and as I was looking at it after submitting it hit me that it had that look. Sincerely sorry.
Emi@ani.social 4 weeks ago
It’s getting better which is scary. Lately it’s harder for me to tell if it’s ai. There are still things by which you can tell but it’s getting harder to spot.
KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 4 weeks ago
What! How could you tell!?? /s
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