• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Yeah, I know when I’m just hanging out and meet a bunch of nazis talking about how jews and blacks need to be exterminated, I feel welcomed and understood.

    They were racist before, they’re comfortable because they finally get to take off their masks, or hoods in this case.

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      It’s natural for you to say “who welcomes me? Who attacks me?” and go with those who welcome you.

      That doesn’t make it effective at making the overall situation better.

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        1 month ago

        Which is how Hitler recruited the brownshirts.

        You’d think people would learn this pattern as it’s repeated constantly through history, but alas.

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          Yep. And it is easily rationalized as doing the right thing, until its too late to do differently.