Why do Germans think that having committed the Holocaust gives them special privileges to speak about Jews?
Why do Germans think that having committed the Holocaust gives them special privileges to speak about Jews?
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Germans project and believe an image of themselves as being a self-critical society that acknowledges the evil of their Nazi past and has now moved past it.
At the same time, they barely even understand who the Nazis were and how they came to power and who beat them into submission so they think it's just being racist and having swastikas.
As such, they're still pretty fash even though they don't know it and feel they have special brownie points to lecture everyone else about what counts as racist or Nazi even though they're idiots.
guy who started a grease fire in the kitchen by accident going on to give seminars in fire safety without ever having learned what causes grease fires
it's somehow worse, because there was a victim of that grease fire who gave their own seminars and actually understood why grease fires happen, but the first guy killed them and stole their stuff after shitting on them for decades
also I was being extremely charitable saying by accident
The existence of the current German state was founded on and exists because of that fundamental refusal to understand the Nazis.