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Igel

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13. Any ideology mixed with nationalism can become very bad very quick.
Sat Oct 26, 2013, 11:35 AM
Oct 2013

Whether it's North Korea, Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, or even the "Islamofascists" for whom the umma is the "natio", the "best nation," and the ideology is Islam.

No point arguing that it's only when something's "taken out of context", because many of the things others do that we decry similarly just "take something out of context".

Problem was that in the 1930s much of the world had no antidote for Hitler's poison any more than it had for Stalin's: Much of the "civilized" world agreed with eugenics, and those who proudly disagreed with it and declared it false had usually been firm adherents just a decade or two earlier, and many "Progressives" turned a blind eye to reports of Stalin's USSR because of their own ideology.

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