• Hegar
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    219 hours ago

    I’m Jewish, I’m very aware that the side running brutal racist internment camps was meaningfully less bad than the side running brutal genocidal death camps. Neither qualify as good.

    • @[email protected]
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      09 hours ago

      The Axis existed as a coalition of countries who wanted to expand their lands at the cost of their neighbor’s lives.

      The Allies existed purely as a defensive response to the Axis.

      A person with a gun fighting to defend their families is not “just as evil” as a person with a gun invading the home of others. Before we even get into camps, unethical medical research, and genocide, you really can’t “both sides” this one.

      • Hegar
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        13 hours ago

        I don’t think it’s fair to characterize global colonialist powers like Britain, France, or the US as not violent expansionists.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 hours ago

          Don’t put words in my mouth.

          I characterized the Allies actions as a defensive response. And they provably were not violently expanding during WW2. I didn’t say a word about their actions and behaviors prior to WW2.

          The fuck do you suggest “good people” do facing invasion? Lay down and let the Axis steal, rape, murder, and genocide their way through Europe?

          Good people fight back against bad people. Saying or doing anything less is to be complicit in their actions.