As white supremacists from as far as Canada revel in intimidating Sunshine State residents, critics blast DeSantis for his silence

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    Are these american nazis aware their grandads killed nazis? I’ve always found it bizarre they fell down that rabbit hole.

    • Eezyville@sh.itjust.works
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      There was a Nazi party here in the US and a lot of people admired Hitler when he was rebuilding Germany. There were even some members of the press that expressed admiration when they covered the reforms he did.

      Privilege can let you get away with a lot of things. There were concentration camps for Japanese-American citizens but none for German or Italian. For the Italians they were asked to persuade their extended families in Italy to stop fighting against us. I’m not sure what was asked for the Germans. My source is from documentaries I’ve seen (I really like this one).

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        From what I learned talking to many WWII vets of German descent, they pretty much all said, “welp our cousins are starting shit again, time to go give them a spanking,” and signed up for service in droves even before Pearl Harbor. Lots of Teddy R. fans in that group.

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        People have studied the Holocaust and the Nazi rise to power in great detail.

        The problem is the media diet of these bigots doesn’t include the typical educational information someone like me got growing up.

        This is the results Sinclair media and Fox News.