My favorite thing to say to piss off rightwingers and make libs go 😨 is “The only difference between lebensraum and manifest destiny is the latter was completed successfully”

[–] TillieNeuen@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It is wild to me that I was an adult when I finally found out that Hitler was actually inspired by the US's attempted genocide of Native Americans. That's something everyone should know.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

successful genocide, not attempted

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And that the Holocaust gas chambers were directly inspired by chemical showers that American border patrol forced on immigrants entering the southern border, including the actual chemicals used

[–] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Attempt" doesn't even feel strong enough. We succeeded, far more so than the Nazis ever did. Not to "umm aktually" it is just something of a sobering thought I had when reading that

[–] TillieNeuen@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the reason why I worded it like that is that the old trope of "the disappearing indian" still gets used these days to be like "well that was bad, but they're all gone now, so whatcha gonna do????" As if there aren't indigenous people still living here, and tribes that reparations could be made to. So I'm careful to not give the impression that I'm in agreement with that.

But you do have a valid point. The US put A LOT of effort to genociding as many Native Americans as they could, and sadly they were very successful in killing an astounding number of people.