• SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    When people were sterilised and killed they were called subhuman

    Yeah like this really highlights the projection though because isn’t it really rich to go around killing and sterilizing people so you can destroy their society for your own gain, and then use the excuse that they are the “subhumans” for being different and/or suffering from the adverse effects of the colonization campaign you run? (“you” as in a western power like not implying you agree with that at all)

    • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      I have spoken to people called subhuman and sterilised actually, many people have. They’re still around you know. The last official governmentally sanctioned eugenics campaign named explicitly as such in Europe (Of which I am aware) ended in the 70s, unofficially later. This isn’t ancient history man, and it isn’t history that spared people “in the west”. My dad tells stories of how they were told how to behave around potential escapees from the eugenics facility.

      The words you want for what the nazis were is inhumane, cruel, evil, and a variety of other things. Not subhuman. No one is subhuman. We are all human, and allowing the possibility of removing humanity from others is how you get fascism.