That’s what you’re complaining about? You guys are fucking lucky that people aren’t just walking up to you and shooting you in the head. They aren’t human.
That’s what you’re complaining about? You guys are fucking lucky that people aren’t just walking up to you and shooting you in the head. They aren’t human.
And they can be made normal again
Something I struggle with is the fact most murderous Nazis went on to live normal, productive lives
Nuremberg Trials only prosecuted a relatively small number of top ranking Nazis. Many who weren’t prosecuted were fervent supporters that killed for the party. Then after the war they went on to reintegrate with society
They lived as bakers, teachers, etc., as law-abiding citizens
It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact people could spend a decade willing to commit atrocities. Willing to murder someone simply for their religion/ethnicity. Then they just soend the next couple decades baking bread like a normal person
I’m not saying anything is right or wrong with how that was handled. Just something I’ve been thinking about
Can they, though? How many of them actually changed, and how many simply went into hiding?
One of the biggest issues that led us to this point was the tolerance of the racist uncle, the antisemitic grandfather just because “he’s from a different time” or whatever. Many of these people never changed, we just started accepting it when it was couched in the right social rules.
It’s well known that Trump grew up around former Nazis and active white supremacists. His family’s culture growing up was steeped in it.
One of the things about cults is that followers fall into a sunk cost fallacy that means that the longer they’ve been a member and the deeper in they are, the harder they are to get out until there’s a line beyond which it becomes basically impossible. Because to admit they were wrong is to admit that their beliefs were wrong, that their actions weren’t justified, and that they’re not the good person that they think they are.