@pargran3 wrote:
this is a hornet's nest.
It is an interesting question as to just what exactly can be listed in that category.
I have no solution. Black Americana has reached an absurd cancel history roadblock. Discrimination and stereotypes existed. Trying to sweep it under the rug like it never happened does nobody any good. We have lost perspective. Then is not now. Germans and Japanese during WWII know what happened to them in this country. Pretending it never happened is a denial of history.
No one is sweeping anything under the rug.
Imagine for a moment that once the allies liberated the concentration camps, they told the survivors “Hey, you’re free, good luck!”
But then they kept Jewish people segregated. Instigated a set of laws that made Jewish people equal BUT separated. They better not trying to sit in the front of the bus! And if they complain, we’ll get the hoses and the dogs.
Made up a whole type of entertainment that consisted of dressing up as Jewish people and making fun using the worst stereotypes.
Starting naming streets and buildings after SS commanders, cause it’s not hate, it’s heritage!
Let the Nazi flags fly, it’s not hate, it’s heritage!
Use hurtful, stereotypical caricature for centuries, and and call it Jewish Germanicana so white people won’t feel bad about collecting racist things.
Then have a bunch of towns decide that it’s okay if Jewish people want to come in during daylight, but as soon as the sun is gone, it’s open season. If Jewish people disappear without a trace, the police won’t even look for them cause they probably helped them disappear in the first place.
Have a bunch of whiny white dudes marching on Nuremberg with tiki torches yelling “Jews will no replace us!” and the chancellor saying “Awww, that’s harmless, there are good people on both sides!”
And when the schools want to teach about the rise of the National Socialist party, how they robbed the Jewish people of everything they had to finance their war machine, from their homes to their gold teeth, say ooooh no, we can’t teach that, that’s critical race theory, we can’t teach people about the darkest moment in our history! We’ll say that we locked people up, a lot died, but hey, not everyone in the camps were treated badly! Have you heard about the kapos? They voluntarily worked for their jailers! They liked it there!
All the while non Jewish people trade and profit off items from those eras. Jewish people may want to collect and preserve those artifacts as a way of dealing with their generational trauma but what can a white person want with an anti Jewish piece of Nazi propaganda? If not to educate, the alternatives are appalling.
And through all that, if Jewish people are hurt, they choose to be offended, that’s on them.
Germany did NONE of that. Yet no one has forgotten about the Holocaust. Makes you wonder.
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