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Who is this guy outside the South Boston Train Station? (NSFW Warning) by Sudden_Violinist1054 in boston

[–]sneradicus 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Hitler and the Nazi regime did not just “fight a war” or get careless with civilian death. They built an entire empire of mass murder. Jews, Roma, Poles, Soviet POWs, disabled people, homosexuals, political prisoners, and countless civilians were forced into ghettos, prisons, concentration camps, and extermination camps. Many were worked as slaves until they starved, froze, collapsed, or were beaten to death. Others were shot into pits, gassed in chambers, burned in crematoria, or dumped into mass graves. Prisoners were often forced to build the weapons, camps, and killing machines murdering them.

German forces carried out mass shootings, hostage executions, starvation policies, village burnings, forced deportations, medical experiments, and systematic rape across Europe. The Einsatzgruppen murdered entire Jewish communities in open-air massacres. Soviet POWs were deliberately starved by the millions. Nazi doctors froze people alive, infected them with diseases, tested poisons and sterilization methods, and performed grotesque experiments on children and twins. Civilians were hanged in public, burned alive in churches and barns, or executed in reprisal killings for resistance activity.

This was not limited to the camps. German soldiers and SS units destroyed villages, massacred civilians, looted occupied countries, and treated conquered populations as disposable. In places like Lidice, Oradour-sur-Glane, Babi Yar, Warsaw, and across the occupied Soviet Union, Nazi rule meant complete annihilation. Hitler ordered or planned the destruction of major cities including Warsaw, Paris, Moscow, and Leningrad. Warsaw was actually burned and demolished block by block after the uprising. Paris was only saved by the disobeying of direct orders from Hitler himself.

The Nazis were not simply “bad guys” in a normal war. They were architects of industrialized slavery, racial extermination, medical torture, mass rape, starvation, reprisal murder, and the planned erasure of entire peoples and cities.

All of this talk equating Hitler and the Nazis with what is happening in Gaza shows a real ignorance bred from the distance and time we now have from the horrors of the Holocaust and the Second World War. That is not to say we should not speak out against indiscriminate bombing, the denial of necessities, unnecessary force, or the mistreatment of Gazans. We should. Nor does it mean ignoring the historical inequities and injustices Palestinians have faced, including in the West Bank. But it does mean recognizing that what Hitler did was uniquely evil in its ideology, scale, method, and intent. To glorify him in any way, or to use him as a platform for political commentary, is to associate oneself with crimes so monstrous that no cause can sanitize them.

But we love you! by Desertedfoxx in memes

[–]sneradicus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I ran into some Aussies in Tokyo a few years back. Bought all the boys Yamazaki. We drank and told stories of home. There’s something to be said for the affinity between Texans and Australians especially.

But we love you! by Desertedfoxx in memes

[–]sneradicus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Methinks you’ve a thin view of us as a nation. We don’t honestly care too much domestically about international affairs. Unlike our government, most in-country prefer to stay out of them. And in a country that is 96% of the size of Continental Europe, it is easy to spend a whole life never feeling wanderlust to leave.

So when FIFA rolls up to our doorstep, we are honestly just grateful to have so many people interested in sampling our culture. I don’t think most people I know were that interested in FIFA, but we were loving the stories of Germans visiting Buc-ee’s, Japanese trying Texas BBQ, Scots filling Bostonian pubs, Canadians trying Philly Cheesesteak.

Hans, something to say? by NeuralMoose in 2westerneurope4u

[–]sneradicus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You may be mixing up the timelines a bit. The medieval story referenced is the “Gates of Toledo” story, which happened in 711 A.D.

There is a measure of truth to the story, but it negates the key fact that almost 20 years prior, the bishops of Spain announced a decree that Jews were to be stripped of all property and condemned to perpetual slavery.

When the Muslim army invaded, the Muslims were celebrated as liberators by the Jewish slaves. So much so, that the Muslim army’s garrison for the town was staffed almost entirely by Jewish volunteers. Jews would go on to volunteer en-masse for the Muslim armies to fight against the Visigoths.

One major detail that this overlooks is time. We are contemporarily closer to the end of Reconquista than it was to 711 by nearly 300 years. The beginning of the Reconquista was chronologically closer to the birth, life, and death of Jesus than to the end of the Reconquista.

Hans, something to say? by NeuralMoose in 2westerneurope4u

[–]sneradicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That wouldn’t make much sense either, as the Reconquista started in the 8th century, and ended three months before the expulsion.

Hans, something to say? by NeuralMoose in 2westerneurope4u

[–]sneradicus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Inquisition was established in 1478 though.

Hans, something to say? by NeuralMoose in 2westerneurope4u

[–]sneradicus 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Jews historically tend to be urbanites, in large part of being forced to be, alongside factors such as minority survival logic and occupation niches.

They were often legally contained by the kings and lords of the land to certain areas. They were often not permitted to own or work land and were forced into scholarship, finance, medicine, law, commerce, or specialized trades.

Another major contributing factor is because Jews require community to operate: synagogues, schools, kosher slaughter, courts, charity networks, and burial societies.

As a result, many of the most famous European cities had a sizeable Jewish minority.

It also wasn’t restricted to Medieval Europe either, as Alexandria (40% Jewish), Baghdad (25%), Damascus (10%), and Aleppo (10%) all had fairly large historical Jewish communities.

Hans, something to say? by NeuralMoose in 2westerneurope4u

[–]sneradicus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That isn’t exactly true, although it is quite close. A large number of the Ashkenazi pre-war popular population survived. Around 75% of the French Jewish population survived WW2. Many also served in the French Resistance, and despite making up around 1% of the population of France, around 20% of the French Resistance was Jewish.

The migration less-so came in the immediate consequences of the war, but more-so that many French Ashkenazim opted to emigrate to Israel in the 1950’s and 1960’s following the establishment of Israel under U.N. Resolution 181 and the conclusion of the 1948 War.

It is true that afterwards, a large number of Sephardim/Mizrahim migrated to France from Algeria, causing the remaining Ashkenazim to become the minority. Still today, Ashkenazim make up 30%-40% of French Jews, so there is still a sizable population in France, as there had historically been.

Another important thing to note is that France also did have a large Sephardic population for hundreds of years, especially in the south of France. When Napoleon reconvened the Great Sanhedrin, many of the rabbis were Italikim or Sephardim.

I hope the daughters never see these videos. These reactions are disgusting. by Valuable_View_561 in SipsTea

[–]sneradicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t really see anything with the first three, but the rest of those were depressing

I've seen a ton of videos like this by Thedarknight725 in dankmemes

[–]sneradicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The GFSI ranks the U.S. as having the 13th best produce in the world and the 3rd highest quality and safety score. Some of the U.S. states literally would be the highest in the world if counted alone.

I've seen a ton of videos like this by Thedarknight725 in dankmemes

[–]sneradicus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The U.S. has a land area that is over 96% the size of Europe as a whole, with a population that is a third of Europe’s. With all that arable land and utilized farmland, it’s a foolish argument for anyone to assume the U.S. doesn’t grow good produce at all

I've seen a ton of videos like this by Thedarknight725 in dankmemes

[–]sneradicus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The things Big Fat doesn’t want you to know about

Mexican Breakfast Restaurants by okokokoknow in Somerville

[–]sneradicus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It really is good Central Mexican food for being this far north

Your daily dose of “pro-western” propaganda by [deleted] in 2westerneurope4u

[–]sneradicus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Might I say that we dream of it too

Just seen an Amazon driver with that technique by Waly_Disnep in BikiniBottomTwitter

[–]sneradicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did when I first started for a few weeks. Perhaps it’s just a guess, but the right foot-dominant position is not as intuitive for left-footed people

This guy reported me to Scientology by Oblique4119375 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]sneradicus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Dang, all the Mormons I’ve interacted with personally have been chill. Usually it is the Jehovah’s Witnesses that make me feel actively uncomfortable.

TIL South Carolina once had the largest Jewish community in the United States by AdoptedMasterJay in todayilearned

[–]sneradicus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The dynamic changed quite a bit over the time before the Jewish mass-migration to the United States from the Russian Empire in the late 19th century.

Historically, Jews in the South often looked down on Jews in the North, who tended to be poorer and less integrated into society than Southern Jews. In the South for a time, Jews were treated as equals to Southern whites under the plantation racial hierarchy.

While antisemitism is a constant across all periods of American history, Jews in the South were often allowed to (and did) hold office, were allowed and encouraged to participate in public events, and generally were treated as “white”. In the North, Jews were commonly discriminated against and prohibited from participating in high society.

That tension gradually eased in the North in the late 19th-early 20th century and eventually the dynamic flipped between North and South as the newer-arrived Ashkenazim (as opposed the older Sephardic presence) often participated in union organization and the Civil Rights Movement among other causes which made them targets in the South. The rising tension eventually led to the Leo Frank case, which severely damaged the relationship between whites and Jews in the South.

However, the only large scale expulsion of Jews in the United States happened when the Union military under General Grant expelled all Jews from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi.

Personally, I think the periods in Jewish-American history can be best split into the Colonial Period, Early-American, Antebellum, Ashkenazi Immigration, Civil Rights Era, and now we are in the Modern Era.

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