“Imagine if people had been going ‘don’t fight hate with hate’ back when Hitler was around.”
Fam…let me tell you bout Poland.
Let me tell you about how the entire rest of Europe sat ack and watched the invasion of Poland because they thought it would be “improper” to send military aid. How they were unwilling to enforce the treaties that Germany was breaking, because that would make them “just as bad.” They sat back and wrote strongly worded letters while fascists grew in power because they didn’t want to dirty their hands. They thought reasonable discussion and politics would be enough to stop a fascist dictator from rising to power.
Spoiler alert: it wasn’t enough.
like yes, people literally did try that argument then too.
Everywhere there’s fascists there are fascist apologists hiding under the guise of pacifism, ready to enable their shit and demonize resistance.
“America First” was their isolationist cover, and then it became the motto of the KKK, and now it’s the slogan of the Orange Nightmare.
“America First” Makes America Worst
Guys, as regards “the entire rest of Europe sat back and watched the invasion of Poland” … you are aware the invasion of Poland is … why the Allies … declared war on Germany and started WWII? And marks the end of Appeasement as policy at least from the French & British governments?
I mean, there certainly were still people in Britain who wanted Appeasement to continue – including the communist party by the way – and the USA took another two years to join in, but the invasion of Poland, September 1939 is literally the starting pistol of WWII. But by all means don’t let the facts get in the way of your argument.
Mate, Utterly aside from “we aren’t complicit in the invasion of Poland just all the other countries prior to that” as a positive being one of the worst arguments I’ve ever heard. (Mostly because yes that complicity is still there).
Britian and France declared war then Poland was given so little actual help during the invasion that this period is called the phoney war, so what actually is your point here?
There were already 6 concentration camps by the time of that declaration of war – no one comes off well in discussions about appeasement and similar post war declaration policies, ‘eventually we actually did something’ is not good enough.
fearlessstateofmind backup 