It began in England. Out of Darwinism. Once people had to accept that the Ancient Greek philosophies of “the ideal form” couldn’t exist. (Because of evolution, everything is always evolving) But you could use Darwin and Mendel and genetics to engineer the biology you preferred.
And where did the Romans get it from? Egypt? I guess it couldn’t have been China, because they were also doing their own version of this several thousand miles away.
The Nazis praised the US's "scientific" approach to racism and eugenics.
Measuring people's heads; IQ tests served in a person's non-native language and relied on specific knowledge of American culture; Plain old racist rhetoric like calling people "dangerous", "criminals" with no evidence. (Sound familiar?)
Anything to prove that black and foreign people were inferior and should be exploited, in a classic "we know the answer and we must cherry pick the data to reach that conclusion".
A lot of these tools were taken up by the Nazis for their persecution of Jews, and now they're coming right back around.
Nazi Germany's inspiration was seeing the 'liberal democratic' world's response to this.
The only reason they didn't get away with it even though according to western 'liberal' world it is okay to do that to your own citizens is because Germany tried to implement the model in other countries.
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The British
Yup - off the top of my head
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in_India_during_British_rule
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899_famine_in_central_Kenya
And also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus
and Smallpox blankets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Society_and_culture
What's the historical context? Like is Nazi Germany copying the restrictions put on after WW1?
Nazis got a lot of their ideas from the US, including lebensraum from Manifest Destiny.
Also the popularity of eugenics began in the US. You even read about it in The Great Gatsby.
It began in England. Out of Darwinism. Once people had to accept that the Ancient Greek philosophies of “the ideal form” couldn’t exist. (Because of evolution, everything is always evolving) But you could use Darwin and Mendel and genetics to engineer the biology you preferred.
That doesn't seem right. Expansionism started way before that.
Hitler explicitly referred to US expansionism when discussing lebensraum.
And where did the Romans get it from? Egypt? I guess it couldn’t have been China, because they were also doing their own version of this several thousand miles away.
The Romans were very open to having foreigners become citizens. Especially in the context of their time period.
And enslaving a significant chunk of those foreigners, too.
And enslaving a significant chunk of their own folks too.
The Nazis praised the US's "scientific" approach to racism and eugenics.
Measuring people's heads; IQ tests served in a person's non-native language and relied on specific knowledge of American culture; Plain old racist rhetoric like calling people "dangerous", "criminals" with no evidence. (Sound familiar?)
Anything to prove that black and foreign people were inferior and should be exploited, in a classic "we know the answer and we must cherry pick the data to reach that conclusion".
A lot of these tools were taken up by the Nazis for their persecution of Jews, and now they're coming right back around.
This is an educated meme.
Hitler sent a certain Dr Mengele to study at the Carnegie Institution to learn about the 'Nordic Race'.
Why is it always the philanthropists?
they become philanthropists to assuage their guilt?
That is giving them too much credit.
It is no more than a cover for doing more horrible things.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
Nazi Germany's inspiration was seeing the 'liberal democratic' world's response to this.
The only reason they didn't get away with it even though according to western 'liberal' world it is okay to do that to your own citizens is because Germany tried to implement the model in other countries.
No one... The paradox is about to collapse upon itself.
Israel?
No wait, Russia?
No no no. We are currently blaming China, or was it Ukraine? Idk I can't keep up who America is blaming for its own faults.
Trump is blaming our own citizens (the ones that didn't vote for him). Is everyone not aware we are his number one target?
It's not a secret.
I wish