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[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 31 points 5 days ago

Didn't the US use to invade countries for much, much less of a reason than that? Sheesh.

These days I'm finding myself agreeing with the Iranian government more and more often because of Israel's crap. I don't like agreeing with the Iranian government.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

I find myself asking "How did I fall for this? How did this seem normal my whole life until now?"

We didn't hear the whole story during the Holocaust. Now we're getting live videos and firsthand accounts of steam rolling crowds.

What the fuck is wrong with a person to be OK with this at all.

[-] FarmTaco@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We didn’t hear the whole story during the Holocaust.

come again?

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Just a bit of history, in WWII the Allies didn't know for certain that the Holocaust had occurred. Remember that it was the 1940s, information could travel quickly but only so much. It wasn't as easy for them back then to pickup the metaphorical 'signal' of the Holocaust happening to the 'noise' the rest of the war was making. So while there were rumors of mass executions of Jewish people as early as the summer of 1941, it's often said that the Allies didn't know about the Holocaust until winter 1945. Now when the Allies went from ignorant, to suspicious, to all but certain but with doubts and finally to certain without a doubt has been debated for decades and will probably be debated until the sun expands and swallows the earth whole. There was definitely a lot of hateful rhetoric being spouted about Jewish people in the 1930s that maybe should have been stopped before it nearly took over Europe, but looking back at history we have the advantage of hindsight.

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