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Old 03-14-2003, 03:52 PM   #21
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I'm finding AIG's argument of "don't think of them as individuals, think of them as a faceless evil society!" to be really creepy and highly disturbing.
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Old 03-14-2003, 04:39 PM   #22
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Didn't the Nazis use a very similar justification for genocide?
Exactly right.

They believed that Jews were collectively guilty of a variety of sins, like being crooked capitalists and loansharking bankers, inventing Communism, corrupting culture, and lusting after nice Nordic women.
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