Doug Holland@lemmy.worldM to AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoDon't be afraid to call things what they are.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square77linkfedilinkarrow-up11.45Karrow-down131
arrow-up11.42Karrow-down1imageDon't be afraid to call things what they are.lemmy.worldDoug Holland@lemmy.worldM to AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square77linkfedilink
minus-squareInvertedParallax@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoNo, Jim crow was the inspiration for Hitler, he wrote about it explicitly in mein kampf as the model that must be followed. The Nuremberg Laws are actually, I shit you not, Jim crow but watered down as Germans wouldn’t tolerate the 1 drop rule. The south was so impossibly evil even the nazis blanched, and we never did anything to solve their unimaginable inhumanity.
No, Jim crow was the inspiration for Hitler, he wrote about it explicitly in mein kampf as the model that must be followed.
The Nuremberg Laws are actually, I shit you not, Jim crow but watered down as Germans wouldn’t tolerate the 1 drop rule.
The south was so impossibly evil even the nazis blanched, and we never did anything to solve their unimaginable inhumanity.