bilby said:
Nothing odd about it really; Hate is much the same regardless of which groups you choose to despise.
The problem with Hitler was his division of humans into arbitrary sub-groups; his hatred of some of those sub-groups; and his desire to stimulate such hatred in others.
Until the Nazis decided that they were not German or 'Aryan' enough.
Yup, your position is basically that of the Nazis; Your arbitrary choices about who to hate are different, but that's not really important - if Hitler had decided to hate Muslims instead of Jews, the only difference would have been that, at the time, he would have found fewer people to attack in his sphere of influence.
Like Hitler, I also share a love of dogs, neoclassical architecture, and pretty German and Nordic women. That does not mean I am a Nazi, does it?
Nor is there anything unique about liking or disliking certain cultures or categories of persons. Since the birth of man we have divided humanity into categories - by gender, race, national origin, religion, level of economic development, geography, climate, class, color, education, criminals, occupation, tribe, and now genetic pools. Its what sociologists and anthropologists, as well as ordinary lay persons, do. You can pretend there are no categories or distinctions between various groups or communities, but reality will always intrude on your la-de-dah fantasy.
Some of those differences inspire admiration, others sympathy, others fear, and yet others revulsion. Some people don't like Christians, others don't like the hyper-religious, and others don't like country red necks. Nothing wrong with it AS LONG such dislikes are deserving, and do not violate the rights of those persons.
Hitler got it wrong because a) he disliked (actually murderously hated) the wrong categories of persons AND b) was determined to imprison and kill them all within and beyond the German borders. He was entitled to (wrongly) hate Jews, but he was not morally entitled to exile or kill them. Those in Germany had been a part of German citizenry, society and identity for over 10 centuries - their particular religion and mixed semitic genes were irrelevant.
Similarly, California Attorney General Earl Warren and Franklin Roosevelt were not entitled to put 70,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry in internment camps...even if they did not like "Japs".
However, EVERY nation on earth has the sovereign right to determine who it lets migrate into its nation. And they get to decide which criteria for entry they want to apply...including the pre and post WWII Germany. And I am suggesting that this criteria should be based on several factors: the minimal size of the base population, and the net benefit or loss to the base population in terms of economics and quality of life.
Some groups are a plus, some are a negative. To ignore that is, as Germany's does, is suicide for its population; it is on the road to the base populations harm and the harm and cultural demise of their posterity. Apparently they feel shame if they acknowledge that.
I find it both fascinating and alarming that people have misinterpreted Nazism as 'attacking Jews', and believe that this is the only danger against which we must guard to avoid a repeat of the horrors of the 1930s and '40s.
The Nazis attacked the Jews because they were identifiably different, and because they were there. They believed that the presence of people who are different dilutes and weakens a culture; and that the solution is for the dominant culture to stand up and exercise its strength and superiority to rid itself of the inferior people. Your posts in this thread fit right in with that discredited, ugly, and dangerous way of thinking.
So I guess the Japanese are on the road to death camps because of their dislike of the widespread immigration of foreign populations? Or maybe you think Norway and Denmark, also tough on immigrants, are building their own versions of Auschwitz? Or perhaps you think the Hungarians are on the verge of manufacturing Zyklon B?
Nonsense.