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This is nothing new. America was A-OK with the Nazis trying to wipe the Jews off of the face of the earth as well.
It’s not a single-president problem. This is who we are as a country.
Also, AmeriKKKa was the direct inspiration for Lebensraum, the “final solution,” and much if not all of the Nazi policies regarding racial “purity” and eugenics.
The Nazi problem was (and still is) an offshoot of the broader AmeriKKKan/settler-colonial problem. It was borne from it, nurtured by it, to this day it thrives because of Anglo-AmeriKKKan support, and frankly- the Nazis could only dream, of doing all the damage the Anglos have done- exterminating almost two continents’ worth of indigenous peoples, terrorizing the entire world for centuries, supporting all the most horrendous examples of (in)humanity across the world (Nazis included) to destabilize the entire globe, and finally, having become such a hegemonic, monstrous beast as th AmeriKKKan empire is now…
Can you expand on the settler-colonial problem? I’ve not heard the phrase before.
Settler colonialism is a form of colonialism where the empire displaces or eradicates the natives in order to offer the natives’ land to settlers. This gives settlers a strong material incentive to migrate there (free land), as well as a common enemy to rally against (the natives).
Classic examples of settler colonies are the British American colonies (later the U.S.) and Israel. Contrast with a colonial project like British India. Nazi Germany undertook a settler colonial project in Eastern Europe (that was directly inspired by the U.S. treatment of natives) that was stopped before it could be completed.
Thank you. I’m well aware of the practice but didn’t know it had a particular name attached to it. I’ll need to look up the contrasting practice utilized in British India.
Gerald Horne’s The Counter-Revolution of 1776 goes into a lot of fascinating detail about the colonial history of the U.S., particularly on the points of how settlers were attracted to the colonies, how the concept of whiteness was created to unite disparate European groups against natives and enslaved Africans, and how the settler-driven desire for more land created friction between the colonies and the metropole. Highly recommend.
Thanks very much, I’ll give it a read.
If a settler colony stops expanding it collapses. Even America now faces this problem because it can’t colonize the Pacific. It bought itself some time through other means but that problem will always be there.
I’m not sure a call would work to stop the genocide anymore. Stopping the weapons would probably induce a military defeat, but I doubt the Israelis, with how they even attack Biden for daring to pretend to care about Palestinians with his “red line”, would simply voluntarily stop anymore. I don’t think any Israeli politician could survive ending the war anymore.
