Pretending real people don’t change or grow is itself an ideological lie. During the Civil War there were white Confederates whose beliefs changed after seeing that the story they had been told about how slavery was beneficial for and enjoyed by enslaved black people was a lie. And they didn’t just change their beliefs, but defected to the Union. There were Confederates who joined in on Sherman’s march when the opportunity to defect presented itself. Considering that Naziism is literally founded on the same principles as America’s chattel slavery system, the idea that anyone ‘tainted’ by such ideology is incapable of changing is ahistorical.
Whether or not they were the majority (they weren’t) is irrelevant when the claim being made is that people with monstrous ideological beliefs are incapable of changing. Racism isn’t a magic spell that creates a zombie you can treat as an NPC, it’s a belief system that can be dismantled like any other.
neat. movies are movies.
Pretending real people don’t change or grow is itself an ideological lie. During the Civil War there were white Confederates whose beliefs changed after seeing that the story they had been told about how slavery was beneficial for and enjoyed by enslaved black people was a lie. And they didn’t just change their beliefs, but defected to the Union. There were Confederates who joined in on Sherman’s march when the opportunity to defect presented itself. Considering that Naziism is literally founded on the same principles as America’s chattel slavery system, the idea that anyone ‘tainted’ by such ideology is incapable of changing is ahistorical.
Whether or not they were the majority (they weren’t) is irrelevant when the claim being made is that people with monstrous ideological beliefs are incapable of changing. Racism isn’t a magic spell that creates a zombie you can treat as an NPC, it’s a belief system that can be dismantled like any other.