Originally posted by: Minionite
No what she did was tell it how it was. Germans (Nazis) did not see it as a holocaust. They saw it as nationalism. They saw it is if they were getting rid of "traitors". Only after WWII did Germans realize what it really was.
Forget Germany. What do you think happened with the Aboriginals/First Nations in Western countries? Residential schools? The Church and Western countries (mine included) saw it is necessary to teach the "barbaric" First Nations the way of the West. They didn't see it as anything wrong. It's only years later (in fact in the past 20ish years) that they've begun to realize how wrong it was and are doing things to fix it. This is happening now. Literally happening now.
Look at any time in history and I'm sure you'll find such examples. Rwanda genocide. The apartheid. Slavery. Colonialism. So many examples. The countries or people behind these heinous crimes never thought they were wrong. They thought they were doing the right thing. They believed in the cause. The common man part of these heinous crimes was brainwashed, propagated, and politicized until they believed in the cause.
Those are big issues. Forget those and let's look at something smaller. Stereotypes. Unknown biases. For example, in Canada, US, Europe, when you see a Chinese, the immediate stereotype is that they must be good at math or rich if they are studying in that country. Indians are typically seen as "hardworkers". These are unknown biases that have taken route since a child because of our upbringings and our society. So, if tomorrow, we were told to only hire Indians, we probably wouldn't even blink twice. But years later we might realize our inherent bias and the wrongness of this move.
I'm not saying that the common man is innocent or that these heinous crimes should be forgotten. But everyone needs to understand there is no white and black when it comes to such crimes. There is only grey. Yes those at the very top are definitely criminals, but how do we know that every Muslim who partook in these crimes is 100% black? Is it not possible that their circumstances, their society, their beliefs, and the teachings from above turned them that way? Many Nazi soldiers, after WWII was over, realized their wrong. Heck some even realized it during the Holocaust. How do you think slaves escaped? Because some White people realized how wrong it was. There aren't 2 buckets to group people in. It's more like a trench with flimsy doors that can be opened if people try.
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