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German-American farmer tarred and feathered at the height of anti-German bigotry in the USA, WW1, 1918 (media.kbin.social)
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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

I sometimes feel that when we as humanity try to learn some lessons from the past we act like a jinn taking wishes too literally. Like okay, now if that's a German citizen, in the USA, we're going to treat them okay. We will not if that's not the USA (like the UK did), or not German ¯\_(ツ)_/¯