I found this on my desktop searching for a reference for someone on BANG. Specifically, I was looking for the reference on allied soldiers preferring losing the war than ending segregation. I don't have a working link to that book, but I always like to have old stuff I’ve already written on hand on the web, so want to post this for future reference. Minimally edited, I probably posted this to plebbit ~2019
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Its always funny to hear leftists and plebbit in general talk about how great the Allies were for fighting the evil gnatzees. The comments you read from these people might lead an uneducated person to believe that the Allied powers fought Hitler in rainbow uniform for the sake of mass immigration, tranny bathrooms, and a black president. They are so deluded that can’t recognize the absurd irony of the things they say or think about WWII or the veterans themselves.
A post recently got +18.5k upvotes featuring this image with the title “Antifa class of 1945“ . Now, obviously this is just a meme I definitely don’t expect every leftist brainlet to know much about WWII (this poster didn’t even get the year right on the Normandy invasion) but I think the post and especially the upvotes it received perfectly encapsulate just how much the WWII narrative has been warped to corrupt the minds of typical people. The conflict has been completely retconned with the intent to indoctrinate and gaslight the population into supporting egalitarian and “progressive” ideals that stand in complete contradiction to what “The Allies’” real beliefs were. Even a large portion of right-leaning people buy into these falsehoods as take them as fact.
First, the first caption says “Anti-fascists disrupting a large gathering of white supremacists.” This is dumb because the Nazis were not white supremacists. The Nazis were German supremacists who believed in something called Aryanism. Proximity to the historic Aryan master race was the presence of a purportedly genetic “Nordic strain” with Germans having the greatest - and some other races like the Japanese - having an “Aryan/Nordic strain” as well. They also believed that Mediterraneans were of a genetically similar stock as Germans, even “regarding them as superior in the arts compared to Nordics and Germans” but “marginally inferior to the Nordic race.. The "Mediterranean" race was described in Nazi propaganda as brown-haired, brown-eyed, brownish-skinned, and short with dolichocephalic or mesocephalic skulls, and lean builds.” They also believed in the racial inferiority of Slavic peoples. So, ostensible Nazi beliefs on race are not compatible with the idea of a pan-European “”White” supremacy,” whatever that is supposed to mean.’
Leftists also love to conflate modern day racialists and intelligence experts with Nazis and the Nazis’ alleged views on intelligence. They claim that “scientific racism” – like racial gaps in brain size or IQ - were partly the justification for things like the Holocaust. Ironically, this is almost 180 degrees wrong. The Nazis actually rejected the utility of IQ tests and hardly used them at all. This "Race realists defeated Hitler, and now are being blamed for Hitler" story is best told by AltHype12 and this Medium post by Cremieux:
the Nazis vehemently opposed the Galton-Spearman tradition. They preferred a Jungian, typological and völkisch conception of intelligence, more akin to Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences or Sternberg’s Triarchic Abilities. In fact, the arguments of Gould, Lewontin, Rose, Kamin, Sternberg, and Gardner are hardly distinguishable from those made by prominent Nazis psychologists (few, if any, Nazis considered themselves to be concerned primarily with mental measurement; this was “bourgeois”).
..Erich Rudolph Jaensch and Friedrich Becker offer an excellent description of Nazis views towards intelligence and group differences. From their writing we can see that the Nazis believed intelligence research represented the victory of a “bourgeois spirit”; that intelligence measurement — especially with a predominant general factor a la Spearman — was an “instrument for Jewry” to “fortify its hegemony” over white Gentiles; that the use of intelligence testing in schools was “a system of examination of Jewish origin,” etc. Almost exactly like Sternberg (and more recently people like Nassim Taleb), the Nazis claimed that, because people differ and thus intelligence differs, there should be examinations not for “intellectualism,” but for “practical intelligence.”
The Nazis also believed much of the Jewish-Gentile difference to be the result of environments, not genes. The Nazis were typological thinkers when it came to anthropology, but types were often the result of the environment (certain types of education, they believed, would make Germans more like Jews)
In regards to racial Aryanism, anthropologists and racialists at the time rejected this, supporting a more traditional racialism (e.g. works of Carleton Coon, slightly anachronistic though) and even kicked them out of conferences to try and prevent the spread of the “aryanism” myth in academia.
In fact, “white supremacist” might be a better term to describe.. the Allies. Who was it who had invaded half the world for global dominance and economic exploitation, and who’s greatest expansionists “contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. I contend that every acre added to our territory means the birth of more of the English race who otherwise would not be brought into existence."” ? The Germans? What about the country that engaged in foreign imperialism under the auspices of “White mans burden?”? Oh wait, that was the US. Well, at least it was the Germans committed many alleged atrocities in the Congo during their occupation. Oh no – that was the Belgians. What about how Germans invaded and colonized the East Indies? No, that was the Dutch.
Legacies of 19th century expansionism aside, Hitler was definitely inspired by comments like those of Cecil Rhodes (like he drew inspiration from US eugenics programs) and Germany’s lack of participation in global colonization and the scramble for Africa could just be explained away by 18th- and 19th-century geopolitics. Surely, the leaders of Allied nations had seen the light by WWII and rejected this backwards racist ideology they had inherited and the Nazis now espoused?
In 1937, Winston Churchill told the Royal Palestine Commission that
"I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.**"
Not only did he have unambiguously supremacist views on race, but even held what we would call “anti-Semitic” views:
”It may be that, unwittingly, [Jews] are inviting persecution - that they have been partly responsible for the antagonism from which they suffer," it said. "There is the feeling that the Jew is an incorrigible alien, that his first loyalty will always be towards his own race."
And these sorts of attitudes permeated the entire Allied war effort. US forces were segregated throughout the entire war and FDR singed orders to incarcerate all Japanese in internment camps for its duration.
Perhaps it was only the military and political leadership of the Allies that retained such racialist and supremacist views, while the majority of the people were fervently anti-racist and egalitarian. Well, if the veterans were such pro-equality and anti-white supremacist in the 1940s, what kind of people were “Civil Rights” advocates fighting against in the 50s-60s? In fact, in the book Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century historian (((Cheryl Lynn Greenberg))) lamented finding that 90% of whites would've rather lost the war to Hitler than end segregation (p. 81) (I wish I still had a working link for this). Even Jesse Owens, American Olympic sprinter who took four golds in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, perfectly captured how 180 degrees wrong leftist conceptions of WWII-era societies of Germany and the US are:
.. It is often stated that Jesse Owens' four gold medals humiliated Hitler by proving to the world that Nazi claims of Aryan superiority were a lie. But Hitler and the Nazis were far from unhappy with the Olympic results. Not only did Germany win far more medals than any other country at the 1936 Olympics, but the Nazis had pulled off the huge public relations coup that Olympic opponents had predicted, casting Germany and the Nazis in a positive light. In the long run, Owens' victories turned out to be only a minor embarrassment for Nazi Germany.
In fact, Jesse Owens' reception by the German public and the spectators in the Olympic stadium was warm. There were German cheers of “Yesseh Oh-vens” or just “Oh-vens” from the crowd. Owens was a true celebrity in Berlin, mobbed by autograph seekers to the point that he complained about all the attention. He later claimed that his reception in Berlin was greater than any other he had ever experienced, and he was quite popular even before the Olympics.
“Hitler didn't snub me—it was [FDR] who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.” ~Jesse Owens, quoted in Triumph, a book about the 1936 Olympics by Jeremy Schaap.
Ironically, the real snubs of Owens came from his own president and his own country. Even after ticker-tape parades for Owens in New York City and Cleveland, President Franklin D. Roosevelt never publicly acknowledged Owens' achievements. Owens was never invited to the White House and never even received a letter of congratulations from the president. Almost two decades passed before another American president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, honored Owens by naming him “Ambassador of Sports” — in 1955.
Racial discrimination prevented Jesse Owens from enjoying anything close to the huge financial benefits that athletes can expect today. When Owens came home from his success in Nazi Germany, he received no Hollywood offers, no endorsement contracts, and no ad deals.
Despite these and so many other obvious contradictions, leftists have somehow been fooled into thinking that The Allies weren’t a coalition of colonialist, white supremacist powers but were actually fighting Hitler for the sake of mass immigration, gays pride events, transgender bathrooms, and a black president. Do we know if veterans even like the world leftist lunacy has created? Lets ask them:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229643/This-isnt-Britain-fought-say-unknown-warriors-WWII.html
What is extraordinary about the 150 replies he received, which he has now published as a book, is their vehement insistence that those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the war would now be turning in their graves.
'I sing no song for the once-proud country that spawned me,' wrote a sailor who fought the Japanese in the Far East, 'and I wonder why I ever tried.'
'My patriotism has gone out of the window,' said another ex-serviceman.
In the Mail this week, Gordon Brown wrote about 'our debt of dignity to the war generation'.
But the truth that emerges from these letters is that the survivors of that war generation have nothing but contempt for his government.
They feel, in a word that leaps out time and time again, 'betrayed'.
TL;DR, the left literally has to rewrite history to pretend the Allied powers agree with them, and they do so shamelessly
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