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[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I originally joined Lemmy with a lemmy.ml account by mistake. I was arguing with a brainlet who told me the Soviets could not possibly have been bad because they fought the Nazis. When I asked what that meant regarding apartheid USA I got banned from .ml.

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You see what makes a Nazi isn't actually killing millions of people. It's only killing millions of Russians. The reason why the Nazis are evil is not actually because they are evil but because they went against the Russians.

That's how many of the Russians see it anyway, and by extension many tankies. The only difference is tankies have to try and sound reasonable to a Western leftist audience.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am an idiot, I should have written "segregated."

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

If you want the really specific term, it's Jim Crow, after the Jim Crow laws passed in the south after reconstruction. The effects of Jim Crow reach us today and will for a long time