depressing as hell – just moving along like everyone else

roachpatrol:

quietblogoflurk:

The whole Captain-America-is-a-Nazi-now thing reminded me of something, about all the straight white goys who think being a Nazi must have been cool.

The whole thing about the racial community, the Volk, was pretty much bullshit. Nazi leadership orchestrated the brutal mass murder of those they considered outsiders, but that does not mean they actually cared about the well-being or even the survival of insiders. Hitler himself considered the majority of Aryan Germans subhuman, gullible idiots. (His term is Hühnervolk, chicken people.) The average German may have been told he was an Übermensch war hero, but he was still used as cannon fodder, a worthless, disposable human tool. I’ve read mood reports from the last years of the war: the consensus amongst German civilians seems to be that there must be some secret weapon or secret plan that will turn the tide of war, because without one, Germany is losing so obviously that even an idiot could tell there’s no hope for victory. So if the leadership is still not giving up, and still sending men to the front to die, and still telling civilians to sit out the bombing, there must be something, or else we’re all dying for no reason. Nazism pretty much betrayed the people it was supposed to be for.

So the thing I want to tell young people attracted to Nazi ideology isn’t ‘you’re empowering yourself at the cost of the murder of others’, it’s ‘you’re gunning for someone who has no qualms sending you out to die a miserable death for no reason.’ What I want to say is, ‘you should know that just because you’re not amongst the first to be put into the meat grinder doesn’t mean you won’t end up there within the decade.’

hell, we don’t even need to look at germany: you see this over and over again in american history. the 30′s, 50′s, 80′s, this last election. constantly. the white poor are whipped into a racist frenzy over seeing nonwhites doing their best to survive, they’re told other races are enemy combatants come to steal all their shit instead of fellow citizens and natural allies against the upper class, then the poor whites all vote for politicians who promise to keep necessary resources away from the undeserving subhumans. the politicians make good on their word by funneling those resources up to themselves and their friends. the poor, white and black, all fucking suffer for it— but at least the white poor get to feel real fucking special while their kids sicken and die.