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They need people to objectify and hate in order to make themselves feel strong, superior, and elite -- as if everyone else lacks a critical component that makes them human.
Muslims. Women. Trans people. Buddhists. The Chinese. The educated. Thinkers who don't limit their cognitive skills to theologizing & apologetics, making excuses for their exclusionary ideology. Addicts. The poor. The homeless. The disabled. The vulnerable. Those who do good for the sake of good.
I was a conservative evangelical christian for almost 50 years. YES, they struggle with abstract thinking. They need concrete ideology that never wavers. "Blacks are subhuman. Brown immigrants are going to take our jobs and rape our wives. People who think everyone deserves an equal shot have never been robbed/raped/mistreated by someone they see as inferior." Critical thinking -- and, in fact, independent thought of any kind -- is highly discouraged.
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Those of us who were determined to learn did so -- the rest have been too complacent to explore any further. It's sad. We have lost so much knowledge,, and we're suffering as a result.
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When desegregation became law in 1954, conservative white supremacists here started systematically attacking our educational system, which had already been whitewashing our history. It's only become worse. They don't teach the truth because admitting our crimes has never been deemed acceptable.
We have a horrible price to pay for what we've allowed to happen here.
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His mom brought a whole folder of papers with her when they came over. I saw them all. It was appalling and fascinating at the same time. I know the fool here isn't keeping these kinds of records. We may never have the kind of archives the Germans had. People here just disappear. I don't know if that's good or bad. Anyway, I donated the papers to the Florida Holocaust Museum after he died. His family didn't want them.
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I know a lot because 1) I've always been fascinated with history and had a real thing for learning about the Holocaust -- not morbid curiosity, but more wonder about how a group of people could be so convinced so much wrong was right.....
...and 2) my second husband's parents were both Mischling, living in a suburb of Berlin during WWII, allowed to survive because his dad was a master mechanic. They came here in 1952. 1/2
"Let us invade your sovereignty and yank anyone we want out off your land for any reason and we'll give you those three people back. Maybe. Or not. We'll get back to you."
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Before we go splitting hairs, please keep in mind conservatives have been systematically attacking our educational system since the mid-50s, and a lot of people wouldn't know who the Hitlerjungend were. Shit, many of us don't even know our OWN history. They whitewashed the hell out of it. We never learned about the Trail of Tears or Tulsa Massacre, and I was born in 1960.
Department of White Security is a terrorist organization.
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Funny ( = ironic) -- that's the same reason it's rising in the Divided States. We have a few more, though. One is the lack of a living minimum wage.