Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin...
by KozmoNau7 on Saturday February 01, 2020 @11:29AM
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The US has been struggling with it since the very start. KKK, segregation, McCarthyism, the list goes on.
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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin...
by ping_pong on Saturday February 01, 2020 @10:43PM
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Europe has been categorically worse, considering the scale of antisemitism, ie. the Holocaust.
Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin...
by KozmoNau7 on Sunday February 02, 2020 @10:03AM
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Someone else being just as bad/worse is not a valid excuse.
My point is that racism and right-wing nationalism isn't something that somehow started in Europe in the last couple of decades and then came to the US. It's been there since the beginning on both sides of the Atlantic, and systematic racism in the US has been a thing since before the founding fathers put ink to paper.
In addition, you can't just say "Europe" as one unit. There are vast cultural differences between even neighboring countries. Europe does not act as one united country, it's a patchwork of localized opinions and cultures.