(July 26, 2013 at 2:24 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: Great! I raise the date at which it was still seens as socialy acceptable and show the unwillingness to learn:
*grins*
You can't win this. For one, the holocaust was happening in the 1940's. Our grandfather's generation.
Slavery was illegalized in the 1860's in the US. Our Great Great Grandfather's generation.
People we never met. People who died long before we were born.
But the 1940's? Heck, many of those people still walk among us even today.
Two. No foreign country invaded the US to make us stop slavery. We descended into the bloodiest war our country ever had. Internal civil war. More dead than all other wars in our history combined. Brother against brother. American against American.
Nazi Germany had to be taken down from both sides by the Soviet Union on one side and a combined Allied force of the US, England, Free France, and Canada on the other side for your people to stop gassing the jews.
Three. The South sat in ruin for a century after this sin was expunged. Crushing poverty for generations. Your country was built up immediately thereafter by your occupying forces. Crushing poverty? Fuck no. Economic powerhouse even before a shit ton of Nazi party members were even thinking about buying a burial plot. No former slave owners in the US saw anything like that. They just saw eternal poverty until the day they died. As did their children.
We used African Americans to till our crops. You used Jews as kindling for your ovens.
You want compare this?
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.