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by drzaiusapelord 4413 days ago
>But that truth was not fully revealed until 1945 with the liberation of various concentration camps.

This is harmful revisionism. What was going on in Germany in the 1930s and the laws and actions against Jews were well known at the time around the world.

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Are you saying that what was going on at the camps was well known across the world in the 1930s, even though it wasn't even happening yet? Hitler was practicing on the mentally disabled, handicapped, and the poor at the time.

If you're saying that racial laws and discrimination against Jews were well known, that's clearly true. Eugenics has nothing to do with fair treatment, though, it has to do with sterilization and extermination. Discrimination against Jews by law in Europe is older than Christianity.

Just like what is going on with the Australian aborigines and the laws governing their 'management as a species' until the 80's are widely known around the world too, right?

(Hint: Australia was practicing real race-based eugenics programs until the 80's. Australian aborigines' weren't even considered human beings until the late 60's.. the point is that atrocities can occur right in front of our eyes, and if we're not willing to see them, they can just stay there ..)