American Holocaust

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55. First, the idea that murdering for land is less evil than murdering for theory is lost on me.

But that is sideways to the point.

To say that Hitler genuinely believed that the Jews had to go for racial reasons completely misses the point. A lot of people think a lot of crazy things but they tend not to happen as national policy until it becomes a matter of property.

Hitler had a much, much lower view of people of African descent yet made no move to depopulate Africa.

The expansion of Germany into Poland was as much a part of Mein Kampf as the racial theorizing. It was called "Breathing space." Eastward expansion.

The native American was highly admired by most signers of the constitution. Yet when we expanded west in a big way the native american suddenly became sub-human.

When people hold land you want they magically become subhuman. The racial threories pre-exist, of course. They are a handy tool when the time comes to develop concensus to make an (economically sel-interested) move. It is much the same as how crackpot conspiracy books about Saddam Hussein became required reading in the WH after they decided they wanted to invade Iraq.

The history of anti-semiticism is one of the cyclical theft of whatever assets Jews acumulated. When spain threw out the Jews they had to leave their land. A lot of Jews prefered to convert rather than leave. This was not appreciated. The primary mission of the Spanish Inquisition was to expose Jewish converts as secretly still observant jews so that their assets would be forfeit.

Racism is always out there but it becomes a program for economic reasons. Jim Crow laws were primarily to keep black workers from competing with white workers, not to keep black people down in a vague abstract way. Blacks were not allowed to be educated to maintain a dependent source of inexpensive labor. The general racism provides social support for (or a willingness to overlook) the economic theft. (There was a lot of southern urban vs. rural disagreement on policy because the different economic environments suggested different sets of laws to maximize white gain from black labor.)

And so on.

People tend to have bad attitudes, but the speciffics are often driven by somebody wanting them to have bad attitudes.

Please note that nothing said here makes racism less sinsiter. It makes it even more sinister.