When people were sterilised and killed they were called subhuman, the people who began calling people subhuman were the ones who inspired those actions. The term originates with eugenicists to justify their murderous ideology.

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When people were sterilised and killed they were called subhuman

Yeah like this really highlights the projection though because isn't it really rich to go around killing and sterilizing people so you can destroy their society for your own gain, and then use the excuse that they are the "subhumans" for being different and/or suffering from the adverse effects of the colonization campaign you run? ("you" as in a western power like not implying you agree with that at all)

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I have spoken to people called subhuman and sterilised actually, many people have. They're still around you know. The last official governmentally sanctioned eugenics campaign named explicitly as such in Europe (Of which I am aware) ended in the 70s, unofficially later. This isn't ancient history man, and it isn't history that spared people "in the west". My dad tells stories of how they were told how to behave around potential escapees from the eugenics facility.

The words you want for what the nazis were is inhumane, cruel, evil, and a variety of other things. Not subhuman. No one is subhuman. We are all human, and allowing the possibility of removing humanity from others is how you get fascism.

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yep totally agree, thank you for your explanation, I did not know the history and just spread some nazi psyop. I'm sorry.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

You didn't know, now you do. We all learn and grow.