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Elementary school children in a detention camp for Japanese-Americans, California, USA, WW2, 1942 (upload.wikimedia.org)
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[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's less of a "You as you are today could DEFINITELY become a Nazi!" and more "You, if you were born and grew up in a totally different environment, would be a different you who could definitely become a Nazi."

As General Sherman once observed to later generations who asked how so many people could tolerate so great an evil as slavery, "Man is more a creature of habit than originality."

[โ€“] wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Hmm that makes sense, thanks.