• Zstom6IP@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    never thought i would see you here, i remember when you still had your reddit account and helped me mod r/ideologypolls.

  • Nataratata@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People use laws to outsource their responsibility to decide whether what they are doing is good.

    It’s common for people to refuse to be taken accountable for their actions, they will just refer to the law. Some go even further and believe everything is good, as long as there is no law against it. Or they blindly follow laws they should know are wrong.

    It has become their “chariot of reason”.

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    1 year ago

    Some things I’ve learned that were once supposedly common knowledge that I can’t find on the internet anymore: Herzl was an atheist, worked with Hitler, allegedly including the final solution, because it lent Zionism more support?

    Has it been scrubbed because that’s true or because it isn’t? I honestly don’t know anymore. Maybe I misinterpreted what I was reading?

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, most evil isn’t supported and done by charicatural evil people out to hurt others for personal enjoyment, it’s supported and done by people who believe themselves to be “good people” and who give themselves and others such excuses.

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    1 year ago

    Yeah, the Holocaust was so legal, they worked very hard to keep all knowledge of it from their people.

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      Holocaust refers to the overall prosecution, murdering and mistreatment of Jewish people, that culminated in mass murder. It does not specifically only mean the mass murder at the end of the war.

      It was not kept a secret from the populace that the Nazi regime was anti-Semitic from the start. There were discrimatory laws enacted openly that obviously people knew about.

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        1 year ago

        I guess they refer to the mass murders in gas chambers and through mass shootings. It was not allowed to print or spread information about the so called “final solution” to the public.

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        The Nazis suppressed all knowledge of the camps from the German people. As the Russians advanced they discovered the camps with the captives still in them. Until the front lines crossed over then the allies had no idea this was happening.