US Politics on Yik Yak | In the 1930s, many Nazi legal experts studied and admired U.S. race laws, but many criticized specific American legal practices as being “too racist” and “too extreme”. Read that again. The Nazi party of Germany thought the U.S. was too racist.

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In the 1930s, many Nazi legal experts studied and admired U.S. race laws, but many criticized specific American legal practices as being “too racist” and “too extreme”. Read that again. The Nazi party of Germany thought the U.S. was too racist.

US Politics 22h

If you can feel pride in America “defeating” the Nazis, you can feel guilt for the way America has treated black people since before the country was established. Argue with a fucking wall

Anonymous 20h

Specifically, many Nazi officials thought that the U.S. “one drop rule” (which legally classified anyone with even an ounce of African ancestry as Black) to be harsher and and more rigid than the blood classifications than what they had ever envisioned for what would eventually become the Nuremberg laws.

Anonymous 20h

They also noted that Jim Crow laws specifically were aimed to keep an already impoverished group, whereas they viewed European Jews as a powerful adversary, requiring a different level of state action to “quash out”.

Anonymous 18h

They also followed Andrew Jackson’s example of treating native Americans to how they should treat their expansion cause.