It’s the same reason counselors and therapists can still be victims of domestic violence, cops get DUIs, or lawyers pick up a heroin habit. We think “it can’t happen to us”.
andrewjamesvt78 on
I was wondering when they were gonna start banning my favorite movies that depict Nazis and fascists in a bad light :-/
TrickiestToast on
Doesn’t help that the people who own most the media companies want it to happen
pontiacfirebird92 on
“Educating everyone” is the issue here. Once people left their classes they memory-holed all of history they learned. Then they started getting “educated” on the issues by the right-wing propaganda machine. Using the same tactics Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and churches like Jehova’s Witnesses and the Church of Scientology they, over a short period of time, became indoctrinated into the right-wing cult of lies, misinformation, and hatred for “the left”. They 100% honestly believe all Democrat run cities in the nation are burning heaps of fire where people are dying every day to riots and violence. They do not believe that is an exaggeration. Fact checks become tests of faith to the cause (to Republicans and Trump specifically). It’s no longer a political party. It’s a religion. It’s a core personality trait. It’s a culture of hate against “the left” and anything associated with it. They have believed they were at war with “the left” for nearly 20 years now. Since Obama.
People substituted history lessons for Fox News sound bites, Twitter jabs, and Tik Tok videos. That’s how we got here.
olafubbly on
It doesn’t help that the country that gave hitler inspiration(America, with how we’ve treated natives and black ppl) for some of his polices didn’t fix their racism problem would’ve ended up going full fascist because just too many people couldn’t stand the idea that racism/white supremacy wasn’t the default American policy.
I mean for christs sake, we still have people pissed over losing their ‘right’ to keep people in chains as property and putting statues up to honor those who fought to keep ppl in chains and don’t forget the “states rights” excuse they make to skirt around the fact that slavery was the reason the civil war happened
n3rdsm4sh3r on
What is more baffling is the baby boomers clamouring for it – when their parents fought against it. it’s mind numbing to think about.
Forever_learning713 on
Conservatives learned long ago that they can’t win on honest policy. That’s why they’ve used their time to lower the population’s access to knowledge, medical care, etc. Now our population is full of people who don’t know anything, can’t think critically, and won’t stop from propagating their crummy genes because god doesn’t want their nut on the floor. Basically it’s a factory that makes stupid people to vote for stupid people. It’s literally the only way any of the republicans could make money. You know they won’t do honest labor lol
FreeBricks4Nazis on
Because most people *aren’t* educated about the rise of fascism in the early 20th century.
The commonly understood narrative for the Nazis goes something like this:
“Germany’s economy was terrible because of WWI and the Great Depression so they let Hitler take power, he fixed the economy so they went along with his anti-Semitism and followed him to war, he was crazy and tried to take over the world and kill all the Jews, so the ‘good guys’ teamed up to stop him. They lost and it was really cool”
UAreTheHippopotamus on
Has everyone forgotten what school was like already? In history class at least half of the students if not more would whine about why we have to memorize useless stuff like this. I’ve known people who otherwise seemed normal but literally didn’t know that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Ignorance is widespread in our society and it’s not getting better with the deluge of misinformation on social media and the conservative dominated media.
DietInTheRiceFactory on
It’s wild to see all the “moderates” suddenly discovering stoic epicureanism: “I can’t do anything about it, so I just don’t watch the news anymore. For my mental health.”
It’s straight up weaponized and difference. I wonder if there was a similar disengagement among the German population in the 1930s.
sayyyywhat on
It’s why Trump keeps being referred to as hitler and his followers as nazis. Obviously they’re not gassing people (yet) but the rhetoric that led to war and concentration camps is happening almost word for word. Those with a brain, heart and conscience are trying to stop it before it gets worse because we’ve seen it before.
Meb2x on
Children were educated about the Holocaust, but not about Hitler’s actual rise to power. So many people associate fascists and Nazis with the Holocaust that they don’t know what it looks like until it’s far too late
JupiterInTheSky on
Hype up a boogy man enough and even the Mystery Gang has to remember it’s just a croney in a mask.
ProfessionalSolid942 on
We have obviously not been educating them. Literacy rates are embarrassingly abysmal.
Y0___0Y on
The president has now declared war on my city multiple times, posted AI generated imagery of my city burning beneath military helicopters, and the secretary of “war” publicly announced yesterday that the military is done with “stupid rules of engagement” as Trump said the military will be sent into my city. To kill people without rules of engagement.
They’re publicly broadcasting that they’re going to wage war against my home and kill my friends and family. And I’m still a mentally ill blue haired communist antifa if I point out the fact that this is fascist authoritarianism…
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It’s the same reason counselors and therapists can still be victims of domestic violence, cops get DUIs, or lawyers pick up a heroin habit. We think “it can’t happen to us”.
I was wondering when they were gonna start banning my favorite movies that depict Nazis and fascists in a bad light :-/
Doesn’t help that the people who own most the media companies want it to happen
“Educating everyone” is the issue here. Once people left their classes they memory-holed all of history they learned. Then they started getting “educated” on the issues by the right-wing propaganda machine. Using the same tactics Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and churches like Jehova’s Witnesses and the Church of Scientology they, over a short period of time, became indoctrinated into the right-wing cult of lies, misinformation, and hatred for “the left”. They 100% honestly believe all Democrat run cities in the nation are burning heaps of fire where people are dying every day to riots and violence. They do not believe that is an exaggeration. Fact checks become tests of faith to the cause (to Republicans and Trump specifically). It’s no longer a political party. It’s a religion. It’s a core personality trait. It’s a culture of hate against “the left” and anything associated with it. They have believed they were at war with “the left” for nearly 20 years now. Since Obama.
People substituted history lessons for Fox News sound bites, Twitter jabs, and Tik Tok videos. That’s how we got here.
It doesn’t help that the country that gave hitler inspiration(America, with how we’ve treated natives and black ppl) for some of his polices didn’t fix their racism problem would’ve ended up going full fascist because just too many people couldn’t stand the idea that racism/white supremacy wasn’t the default American policy.
I mean for christs sake, we still have people pissed over losing their ‘right’ to keep people in chains as property and putting statues up to honor those who fought to keep ppl in chains and don’t forget the “states rights” excuse they make to skirt around the fact that slavery was the reason the civil war happened
What is more baffling is the baby boomers clamouring for it – when their parents fought against it. it’s mind numbing to think about.
Conservatives learned long ago that they can’t win on honest policy. That’s why they’ve used their time to lower the population’s access to knowledge, medical care, etc. Now our population is full of people who don’t know anything, can’t think critically, and won’t stop from propagating their crummy genes because god doesn’t want their nut on the floor. Basically it’s a factory that makes stupid people to vote for stupid people. It’s literally the only way any of the republicans could make money. You know they won’t do honest labor lol
Because most people *aren’t* educated about the rise of fascism in the early 20th century.
The commonly understood narrative for the Nazis goes something like this:
“Germany’s economy was terrible because of WWI and the Great Depression so they let Hitler take power, he fixed the economy so they went along with his anti-Semitism and followed him to war, he was crazy and tried to take over the world and kill all the Jews, so the ‘good guys’ teamed up to stop him. They lost and it was really cool”
Has everyone forgotten what school was like already? In history class at least half of the students if not more would whine about why we have to memorize useless stuff like this. I’ve known people who otherwise seemed normal but literally didn’t know that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Ignorance is widespread in our society and it’s not getting better with the deluge of misinformation on social media and the conservative dominated media.
It’s wild to see all the “moderates” suddenly discovering stoic epicureanism: “I can’t do anything about it, so I just don’t watch the news anymore. For my mental health.”
It’s straight up weaponized and difference. I wonder if there was a similar disengagement among the German population in the 1930s.
It’s why Trump keeps being referred to as hitler and his followers as nazis. Obviously they’re not gassing people (yet) but the rhetoric that led to war and concentration camps is happening almost word for word. Those with a brain, heart and conscience are trying to stop it before it gets worse because we’ve seen it before.
Children were educated about the Holocaust, but not about Hitler’s actual rise to power. So many people associate fascists and Nazis with the Holocaust that they don’t know what it looks like until it’s far too late
Hype up a boogy man enough and even the Mystery Gang has to remember it’s just a croney in a mask.
We have obviously not been educating them. Literacy rates are embarrassingly abysmal.
The president has now declared war on my city multiple times, posted AI generated imagery of my city burning beneath military helicopters, and the secretary of “war” publicly announced yesterday that the military is done with “stupid rules of engagement” as Trump said the military will be sent into my city. To kill people without rules of engagement.
They’re publicly broadcasting that they’re going to wage war against my home and kill my friends and family. And I’m still a mentally ill blue haired communist antifa if I point out the fact that this is fascist authoritarianism…