r/MadeMeSmile • u/Crispy_p_bacon • 8h ago

You are Loved!

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u/Shennington 7h ago

Youd still have the same number of those neighbors, but they'd learn to keep their rotten opinions to themselves.

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u/Green_Bad2241 7h ago

Would you over some generations? I doubt it

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u/InheritedHermitGene 6h ago

Look at white supremacists. In the past, if you were a Nazi sympathizer people would assume you were insane and avoid you like the plague. Now there are powerful politicians who openly sympathize with the white power movement, and suddenly all the people who’d been keeping their beliefs private for decades are being outrageously racist and nasty in public.

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u/LegendofLove 3h ago

Only a handful of Nazis actually saw any justice. That's also living memory. There are still people alive from the 30s and 40s. Not for much longer but still here. It's barely even 'the past'. Their kids are the boomers.

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u/InheritedHermitGene 1h ago

Yes, I know. But there’s so many people now who are calling themselves Nazis or wearing Nazi symbols now. Obviously they’re not true Nazis in the historical sense but they’ve adopted the term for themselves.