This graphic seems to imply that Hindenburg's Conservative Party was some kind of bastion of tolerance in 1931 and the Nazis just kinda snuck in and implemented the Anti-Tolerance Law in 1932.
Set aside the fact that bigotry and the genocidal social impulse ran rampant through European states for centuries and that the country was just emerging from one of the bloodiest periods of European history (ie, WW1 and the various wars surrounding the beginning of the end of European Colonialism). The origination of a great deal of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory came out of the burgeoning corporate industrial base of the United States. Specifically, Henry Ford's "The International Jew" was foisted on Germans as early as the 1920s in a very explicit effort to undermine unionization efforts throughout the Ford Company supply chain.
"Intolerance" isn't just some baseline human impulse. It is an attitude deliberately seeded and inflamed by particular economic interests for financial gain. Whether you're doing Inquisitions in Spain or concentration camps in Germany, there are material motivations that are worth considering. This isn't just a question of "Tolerating Intolerance".
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This graphic seems to imply that Hindenburg's Conservative Party was some kind of bastion of tolerance in 1931 and the Nazis just kinda snuck in and implemented the Anti-Tolerance Law in 1932.
Set aside the fact that bigotry and the genocidal social impulse ran rampant through European states for centuries and that the country was just emerging from one of the bloodiest periods of European history (ie, WW1 and the various wars surrounding the beginning of the end of European Colonialism). The origination of a great deal of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory came out of the burgeoning corporate industrial base of the United States. Specifically, Henry Ford's "The International Jew" was foisted on Germans as early as the 1920s in a very explicit effort to undermine unionization efforts throughout the Ford Company supply chain.
"Intolerance" isn't just some baseline human impulse. It is an attitude deliberately seeded and inflamed by particular economic interests for financial gain. Whether you're doing Inquisitions in Spain or concentration camps in Germany, there are material motivations that are worth considering. This isn't just a question of "Tolerating Intolerance".
Now please say it as a comic so libs get it