While streaming, the rapper performed a Nazi salute and said: ‘Heil Hitler’

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    22 hours ago

    History lessons in the US focus on the Jewish victims of the Holocaust to the exclusion of all others. Plenty of people don’t know that gay, trans, leftist, or non-white people were genocided.

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      21 hours ago

      Even white people. Slavs for instance. Anyone considered crippled. Political enemies.

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        Slavs weren’t really considered white back then. “White” as a social construct goes far beyond skin color.

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          “white” is a US idea. Like Irish not being “white”. Third Reich cared about Aryans, similar but different rules.

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      They were the primary target and most Jews died in the Holocaust. That’s being said I think people of color who are Nazis tend play mental gymnastics to ignore the racism. I think it is the younger crowd who wasn’t hunted by hate groups.

      The real thing to note is that Nazi Germany condemned large groups of people to die. When society is ok with singling out a group of people anything can happen.

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      21 hours ago

      Yeah, but isn’t he Christian? I think “Jesus Walks” was one of his songs. Jesus was absolutely Jewish and Christianity was a sect of Judaism for decades, maybe even hundreds of years. I’ll never understand hating the people that founded your religion.

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      You’re right, but it’s definitely different depending where you live. I went to a high school in the New York suburbs that was largely Jewish. If I had to guess I’d say 30%, with the rest being a mix. We had holocaust survivors come to speak once or twice while I was there. I graduated in 06. Our teachers did not skimp on any of that. The stats were certainly focused on jews, but they also didn’t leave anyone out.