Liberalism, Genocides & Holocausts 🧵
The Holocaust in the 1930s was not something that emerged out of nowhere, disrupting the happy, peaceful, rational Liberal world. In fact, the Jewish holocaust was preceded by a number of previous holocaust against other non-whites whose..
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The Holocaust in the 1930s was not something that emerged out of nowhere, disrupting the happy, peaceful, rational Liberal world. In fact, the Jewish holocaust was preceded by a number of previous holocaust against other non-whites whose..
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perpetrators were the Liberal powers. Let's take a few examples:
1) the mass deportation of Indians by President Jackson, known as 'The Indian Removal Act' recounted the similarities with the concentration camps.
2) black people were tortured, lynched, and burnt alive,...
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1) the mass deportation of Indians by President Jackson, known as 'The Indian Removal Act' recounted the similarities with the concentration camps.
2) black people were tortured, lynched, and burnt alive,...
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...beaten to death, and much more in public. In fact, schoolchildren were also obligated to see this as spectators.
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3) there were prisons in the South that were strikingly similar to the Nazi camps.
4) Eugenics, which was born in Liberal England, died in Germany after the WW2, but in the US, it continued as far as 1952, where in about 30 states interracial marriages was still a crime.
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4) Eugenics, which was born in Liberal England, died in Germany after the WW2, but in the US, it continued as far as 1952, where in about 30 states interracial marriages was still a crime.
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5) Before the Jewish Holocaust, there was the American Holocaust, Australian Holocaust, African Holaucast, coupled with countless other genocides (Irish), persecution and so on.
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"It is banally ideological to characterise the catastrophes of the 20th century as a kind of new barbarian invasion that unexpected attacked and overwhelmed a happy, healthy society." (p. 429)
—Liberalism: A counter History, ch 10
—Liberalism: A counter History, ch 10
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