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> The US is at the point where 30-40% of the country would drink bleach and shoot their neighbor at the presidents command

It sounds like you may have succumbed to some of that disinformation yourself

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Then talk me down from my lofty vantage because looking at ICE internment camps and seeing women forcibly sterilized en masse is making it awfully hard to not conflate my WW2 history curriculum with the present day.

To be fair, there was only one doctor forcibly sterilizing women, and it appeared to be for personal profit rather than some eugenics directive from above. It's bad, but it's quite as bad as you're making it out to be.

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If we're going to compare it to WW2 where they were doing experiments on humans and running eugenics projects, I think we should acknowledge that this is fundamentally different than that. Someone who didn't read the intercept story [1] might take the WW2 comparison too literally and think we've begun official mass sterilization programs. We haven't. What happened is tragic and awful, but it's not the same thing that Hitler did.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2020/09/17/forced-sterilization-ice...

ICE internment camps are in no way comparable to WW2 events.

Why don't you live somewhere else for 10+ years and then report back how much better it is over there. Until then your opinion is not worth much.

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