I just cant think of the ‘greatest’ generation as anything other than white racists who weren’t as evil as the guy in germany. Never think of any of them as heroes but just pieces of shit in America at the right time to stop hating black people long enough to maybe reduce their sentence in hell because they blew the brains out of some nazis.
I wouldn’t say they were as bad as Nazis… They were a product of their time. We’ve come a long day since then, but that doesn’t discredit the good things they did.
By that argument Nazism was a product of its time too. A lot of Western Europeans did not see nonwhite people as fully human then. Some went as far as seeing them as animals or soulless. Western Europeans were already committing genocide against non whites via the colonial enterprise, man-made famines etc.
Entire fields of science (race science, “phrenology”) were created and religious philosophies were adjusted to accomodate this inhumane worldview.
I wouldn’t see Nazism as the antithesis of Western thought at the time. If anything it was the natural progression of some of the darkest aspects of the Western worldview. Hitler is largely vilified for engaging in imperialism against other Western nations. If he had quietly committed genocide in a colony located in the “global south”… I don’t see how other Western nations take issue with that since that is what they were doing at the time.
National Socialidm very much was a product if it’s time. Imperialism hadn’t yet been globally condemed, racism was rampant globally, and genocides and man made famine were happening all over the world. Germany was going through an economic collapse when along comes Mr. Hitler who was able to convince Germany that they should hate certain people and love others.
They were only able to thrive because of the certain set of circumstances that existed at that time. If someone attacked a NATO country today what do you think would happen?
Imperialism was being condemned. The people condemning it didn’t count as people at the time.
Germany was going through an economic collapse partly due to punishing terms introduced by other Western countries after losing WW1.
“National socialism” was never actually socialist. It masqueraded as socialism to gain support but was always fascist.
I’d argue fascism only concerns itself with hatred, not love. Had Hitler successfullt genocided the initial groups he blamed for everything, he would have found a new outgroup to target. This would have continued until black haired men with toothbrush moustaches were labelled the problem in need of a “final solution”.
Since it is a single dude I think depicting them as a white dude is alright
I just cant think of the ‘greatest’ generation as anything other than white racists who weren’t as evil as the guy in germany. Never think of any of them as heroes but just pieces of shit in America at the right time to stop hating black people long enough to maybe reduce their sentence in hell because they blew the brains out of some nazis.
I wouldn’t say they were as bad as Nazis… They were a product of their time. We’ve come a long day since then, but that doesn’t discredit the good things they did.
By that argument Nazism was a product of its time too. A lot of Western Europeans did not see nonwhite people as fully human then. Some went as far as seeing them as animals or soulless. Western Europeans were already committing genocide against non whites via the colonial enterprise, man-made famines etc.
Entire fields of science (race science, “phrenology”) were created and religious philosophies were adjusted to accomodate this inhumane worldview.
I wouldn’t see Nazism as the antithesis of Western thought at the time. If anything it was the natural progression of some of the darkest aspects of the Western worldview. Hitler is largely vilified for engaging in imperialism against other Western nations. If he had quietly committed genocide in a colony located in the “global south”… I don’t see how other Western nations take issue with that since that is what they were doing at the time.
National Socialidm very much was a product if it’s time. Imperialism hadn’t yet been globally condemed, racism was rampant globally, and genocides and man made famine were happening all over the world. Germany was going through an economic collapse when along comes Mr. Hitler who was able to convince Germany that they should hate certain people and love others.
They were only able to thrive because of the certain set of circumstances that existed at that time. If someone attacked a NATO country today what do you think would happen?
Imperialism was being condemned. The people condemning it didn’t count as people at the time.
Germany was going through an economic collapse partly due to punishing terms introduced by other Western countries after losing WW1.
“National socialism” was never actually socialist. It masqueraded as socialism to gain support but was always fascist.
I’d argue fascism only concerns itself with hatred, not love. Had Hitler successfullt genocided the initial groups he blamed for everything, he would have found a new outgroup to target. This would have continued until black haired men with toothbrush moustaches were labelled the problem in need of a “final solution”.