One of the main reasons that I posted this is because if this isn’t malicious compliance, there are people in the government who want to actively bury the past of this country, and you can’t exactly separate race from the rest of the country’s history because a massive part of the US’ history was influenced by it. The history of sports in America pretty much comes down to the history of race in America as well, and so pretending these things don’t exist just really irks me.
Like I said in the post about the DoD article, pretending the past doesn’t exist does nothing but harm for everyone involved, but you can also recognize the past without becoming self-hating like Germany. I think that people absolutely recognize that Germany at some point became self-hating because of de-Nazification, but the same shouldn’t happen to the US. I hope that the end result of all this going over the DEI stuff is instead finding ways to recognize the history of the nation without flagellating white people.
Germany didn't become self-hating by accident. They discarded the nationalism and tried to blame all the crimes of WW2 on it, to cover for the socialism, which they kept.
The near century of propaganda claiming nazis were right wing, ignoring the reality that they were yet another homicidal leftist government, and that WW2 was entirely leftist authoritarians causing problems for everyone, was deliberate.
While your broader point is accurate: Germany was never denazified, except in the East. Adenauer brought in many Nazis / Nazi party members because like the Baath Party, they were essential to running the state.
But at one point, the German state realized that it could silence the German people by citing crimes committed by the German state, which of course meant that you could never criticize the German state later on. The politicians certainly don't hate themselves, in fact, they love themselves too much... to the exclusion of any love for country, family (insofar as they have any) or any principle beside the will to power.
One of the main reasons that I posted this is because if this isn’t malicious compliance, there are people in the government who want to actively bury the past of this country, and you can’t exactly separate race from the rest of the country’s history because a massive part of the US’ history was influenced by it. The history of sports in America pretty much comes down to the history of race in America as well, and so pretending these things don’t exist just really irks me.
Like I said in the post about the DoD article, pretending the past doesn’t exist does nothing but harm for everyone involved, but you can also recognize the past without becoming self-hating like Germany. I think that people absolutely recognize that Germany at some point became self-hating because of de-Nazification, but the same shouldn’t happen to the US. I hope that the end result of all this going over the DEI stuff is instead finding ways to recognize the history of the nation without flagellating white people.
While I understand that Reddit is incredibly left-wing, the comments make me wonder who exactly is working in the various departments going over all the DEI stuff. Is it people who just want to stop the hatred of white people, or what exactly? I’m probably worrying way too much about this, but this just feels super fucking off.
Germany didn't become self-hating by accident. They discarded the nationalism and tried to blame all the crimes of WW2 on it, to cover for the socialism, which they kept.
The near century of propaganda claiming nazis were right wing, ignoring the reality that they were yet another homicidal leftist government, and that WW2 was entirely leftist authoritarians causing problems for everyone, was deliberate.
While your broader point is accurate: Germany was never denazified, except in the East. Adenauer brought in many Nazis / Nazi party members because like the Baath Party, they were essential to running the state.
But at one point, the German state realized that it could silence the German people by citing crimes committed by the German state, which of course meant that you could never criticize the German state later on. The politicians certainly don't hate themselves, in fact, they love themselves too much... to the exclusion of any love for country, family (insofar as they have any) or any principle beside the will to power.