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That doesn’t make it any better. They also had significant opposition.

• danans 1y ago
  Indeed, they had opposition. However, the way we have been taught history has been laundered to make us think that Nazi ideology never had a significant base of support outside of Germany, when the truth was that it was not only significant, but segregated American society under Jim Crow was in several ways a model for the Nazis.
  • aspenmayer 1y ago
    US treatment of migrant workers under the Bracero program and US usage of Zyklon B on migrant workers as a delousing agent directly inspired Nazis. This came to a head at the so-called bath riots in 1917: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_Bath_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_Bath_riots This has come up a couple times before on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38552760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38552760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40381708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40381708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40382627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40382627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646876
    • mjcohen 1y ago
      TIL