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[โ€“] modeler@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's funny that 80 years ago, the Americans got the Nazi's out of Germany, but now it's the Germans trying to punish the Nazis in America.

[โ€“] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Conversely, when I read about the Holocaust as a kid, the last thing I would have expected future Jewish people to support was killing neighbors and taking their property. How are we making the same mistakes?

[โ€“] modeler@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

It's horrific, isn't it. I think the reason is education and media.

I grew up in the 70s and 80s and we were taught about the Nazis and their horrific legacy. A lot of movies were about WWII and the heroes were the ones shooting Nazis. My generation generally doesn't like Nazis.

However the millennials and Gen Z have grown up in an environment where the bad guys are mainly communists, muslim terrorists and scientists building world-destroying technical weapons. And in school little is said about the Nazi Germany period.

Trump, PP, Nigel Farage, Peterson and all the other right wing talking heads say are our enemies are the same as the above - communists, brown people (who may or may not be muslim) and science. And, guess what, who is supporting the genocide in Gaza? The idiotic anti-China tariffs? Who is denying global climate change and decimating science spending? Who labels their enemies 'radical socialists' or 'communists'?