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Well said. I would even go so far as to say that facism is the bones of America.
American colonialism served as inspiration for Hitler, and the history of America is packed solid with violent othering of various groups. To pretend that any of these problems are new or came from elsewhere is an incredibly naive and whitewashed point of view.
No, Jim crow was the inspiration for Hitler, he wrote about it explicitly in mein kampf as the model that must be followed.
The Nuremberg Laws are actually, I shit you not, Jim crow but watered down as Germans wouldn't tolerate the 1 drop rule.
The south was so impossibly evil even the nazis blanched, and we never did anything to solve their unimaginable inhumanity.
It's not wrong, although I would stress, that fascism is not just that, and there is a reason why we only call those systems starting in the 20th century fascist.
It is also class collaborationism, and trying to somehow have the advantages of capitalism without its utter destruction of social norms and traditions. It is intertwining state and capital with the ideological aim to create a "strong nation" in the fight against other nations. It is imagining society as a body with people being its organs, who should serve their allotted place in society, and not rebel against it. America also had non-fascist tendencies woven within into history, and the settler-colonial era was still too early to be called "fascist", lacking the kind of developed industrial capitalism and violent reaction to socialist class struggle 20th century fascism was born in.
Yeah, we've rarely been the good guys in history.