Comment on From the outside looking in
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoWhat you see online/in news now is a caricature of the worst of America. Normal people here aren’t chronically online, or worse, professional influencers.
That being said, I’m from the U.S. south, and I have seen some shit. And the shit is certainly out in the open now.
DNS@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Germans were normal people who turned a blind eye to concentration camps as they continued on with their lives.
Just like how the majority of Americans turn a blind eye to the modern Gestapo rounding up anyone who is brown, and sending them off without due process.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, Americans have turned blind eyes for decades.
What feels different is the curtain is pulled back now, at least for the rest of the world and many folks here, because everything turned into Idiocracy.
Americans may not be doing anything about it, but I also have a lot of family that’s sorta realizing “Oh… Reconstruction failed really hard, didn’t it?” And are looking back on lives and seeing some nasty shit (like bigoted aunts/uncles and worse) for what it was.