But the thing is, I already said that they educate their kids about what happened. You go to Germany and ask, they'll recoil for sure... but only because they already know exactly how horrible the ideas were.
These ideas get plenty of sunlight.
Here's the difference. Your run-of-the-mill white supremacist is selling these ideas.
Think about what that means.
He's a salesman. He's selling the idea. He's making it look as attractive as possible. "All of your woes can be cured if we get rid of Ethnicity X." And in the absence of an educational program specifically designed to discredit such harmful ideas? Educational programs that have not only been woefully lacking in states that were originally party to the Confederates, but have even subtly glorifying these ideas in some cases? Yyeeeeeaaaahhhhh..... You're gonna have issues, just as he have been for the last hundred years or so.
Whereas in Germany? "NO! THIS IS BAD! AND THIS IS WHY IT'S BAD! DON'T BE BAD!" They don't just say it's "bad". They also teach why. And its worked pretty well for them so far. While they do have neonazis, they are a very, VERY small minority, and one with very few teeth because people recognize their rhetoric for what it is.
The same, unfortunately, can't be said for the USA. Oh, it's still a minority here, but it's a minority that has a far, FAR greater per capita than it does in all of Europe.
And that's not a good thing.
These ideas get plenty of sunlight.
Here's the difference. Your run-of-the-mill white supremacist is selling these ideas.
Think about what that means.
He's a salesman. He's selling the idea. He's making it look as attractive as possible. "All of your woes can be cured if we get rid of Ethnicity X." And in the absence of an educational program specifically designed to discredit such harmful ideas? Educational programs that have not only been woefully lacking in states that were originally party to the Confederates, but have even subtly glorifying these ideas in some cases? Yyeeeeeaaaahhhhh..... You're gonna have issues, just as he have been for the last hundred years or so.
Whereas in Germany? "NO! THIS IS BAD! AND THIS IS WHY IT'S BAD! DON'T BE BAD!" They don't just say it's "bad". They also teach why. And its worked pretty well for them so far. While they do have neonazis, they are a very, VERY small minority, and one with very few teeth because people recognize their rhetoric for what it is.
The same, unfortunately, can't be said for the USA. Oh, it's still a minority here, but it's a minority that has a far, FAR greater per capita than it does in all of Europe.
And that's not a good thing.