• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    Last two flags are in the wrong order. Not just chronologically, but with regards to causation too: the Nazis were heavily influenced by American racists.

    An argument could be made for the American traitor flag to be on both sides of the swastika, but that would be pretty messy…

    A Stars & Stripes with 48 stars would probably be too subtle…

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      3 months ago

      Hitler spoke about the American south and Jim Crow with reverence, he thought it should be a model for German racist policies.

      This was something he wrote about in Mein Kampf.

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        Greater than just the South, the eugenics movement in the US in the early 20th century, with forced sterilizations and criminalizing interracial marriage, happened nationally.

        Though you don’t need to be capitalist to be racist as fuck. Racism exists all over the world in many different government and economic systems throughout all of human history

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          Indeed, Chicago, until the 1960’s, was one of the most segregated cities in the USA. Irish, Italians, African Americans, Hispanics, etc…during daylight hours, everything was business, but during sunset, nobody crossed the ethnic and racial lines drawn up by the neighborhoods.

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            I am not sure, but I think Milton Friedman once revealed the depths of his ignorance about racial segregation in the US and that the claim that laws demanding all segregation be dismantled were a violation of the free market principle and that a true free market would dissolve segregation.

            Chicago, as you mentioned, was used as an example to show just how dumb he was. Chicago had no official segregation policy. From a purely legal standpoint if an Irishman wanted to get an apartment in a black neighborhood and invite Italian friends over that would be a huge taboo and suffer reprecussions over it even if he wasn’t doing anything remotely illegal.

            The only way it COULD have dismantled is to make law to strictly forbid that kind of discrimination on any grounds.

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              Australia heavily advertised multiculturalism and anti-racism during the '70s and '80s and then stopped. It seemed effective. We had one not very racist generation.

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                3 months ago

                I appreciate your sarcasm. Chicago is still racist. But it would be even more racist if they didn’t do that stuff during the civil rights era.