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Hey guys it’s late at night and I just watched another stellar @yacobg42 video, and I thought about having a talk about the roots of Nazism and how White America has long been the seeds of racial supremacy and fascism. To some, especially history buffs or people who can read the-
Writing on the wall, this makes sense. To others, this thread’s for you.
America has long had the idea of white superiority and supremacy. Since colonials first landed here, there was an expressed disgust and distaste towards the Native Americans who lived here, and even-
America has long had the idea of white superiority and supremacy. Since colonials first landed here, there was an expressed disgust and distaste towards the Native Americans who lived here, and even-
During the penning of the Declaration and Consitution, black people were treated as lesser and like property by most of the men making up the Continental Congress. Hell, even Abraham Lincoln believed that the white man would always be superior to the black man.
But that’s not why I’m here. Let’s talk about the Nazi Nuremberg Laws and their relation to the Jim Crow laws all throughout America during that very same era, and other discriminatory American laws at the time. During that period in history, the US has designated many POC-
As non-citizens, such as Native Americans and Filipinos (of which I am a part of) even though they had been living in the US. This shows up almost verbatim in the Nuremberg Laws, where Jewish Germans were stripped of citizenship. Even further than that, Germany at the time-
Took directly from America the idea of illegal mixed race marriages, incorporating it to prevent marriage and even sex between “Aryan” and Jewish people. Of course, when the issue came up as to how to identify if someone was Jewish, the Nazis yet again studied the American way-
Of classifying their oppressed and marginalized people. In America, as some of you may heard, there were many ways to “judge” if a person was black or not. There was the paper bag test, the one drop rule, and there were other classification systems for different POC.
However, Nazi Germany decided to make their law considering the classification of Jewish people more lax than that. Yes, you read that right. The NAZIS made a more lax discriminatory JEWISH CENTERED LAW than America. In Nazi Germany, someone was considered Jewish if they
Had three or more Jewish grandparents. This is much more lax than America, it’s honestly funny to me. And to top it all off, Americans didn’t even fully despise Nazis until the war! Not that that should be surprising, but still. Eugenicists and those in America that
Believed in the growing anti-Semitic movement there actually agreed roundly with Germany at the time until they entered WW2. After the entrance of the US, it changed several things: how Jewish immigrants were classified, how they were viewed as a whole. America shifted-
Their system of abuse the tiniest margin so as to not seem like they were the enemies they were so violently opposing now. Instead of involving Jewish people, the center of WW2 and the most obvious oppressed people that would get them condemned, America instead-
Exercised its system of abuse on other POC, chiefly black people. There was no longer any mention of eugenics, no longer any mention of anti semitism. America saw how the world reacted to Germany, and IMMEDIATELY did a 180 and reversed its stance on Jewish people.
Instead, it only seemed to cling harder and harder to the oppression of other marginalized people. Blacks, Latinos, Asians, LGBT. America kept supporting the very laws that inspired the Nazis and similar laws to them until the civil rights movement pushed the country into
Acquiescing for once not even 60 years ago. And yet, the job’s still not done. Jim Crow is still alive in America. The disproportionate amount of cop funding and their patrol and profiling of POC in the inner cities. The fact that slavery is still alive here, under a prison
System sustained by a majority black population. The fact that white women will scream and call the cops on a man doing his business or pull a gun on a woman trying to stop her from running a child over. The fact that white cops will kneel on an unarmed, nonviolent man’s neck
For nine minutes, or pull up and shoot a child with a toy gun without even giving him a chance to react. The fact that it is apparently a crime punishable by death to go running in a neighborhood for a black man. Nazism is alive here. It started here, and it must end here.
Those of you shocked by this, seeing this for the first time, or surprised: this is for you. A history lesson. And why our country needs to be rebuilt. So please, listen to black people when they say black lives matter, really try to understand it when POC are afraid to be
Stopped by the cops, and finally, let those who have been oppressed and put down throughout history have a voice and a say in their own lives.
Link to video that got my blood boiling by @yacobg42
And an article on history..com that I reference several times through my rant if you want to check out some more on this: https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow
