Post #593747
2026-03-09 05:24 UTC
Replies (3)
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@verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-03-09 05:28
Einstein and many other Jewish scientists famously fled Germany in droves to escape the Nazis. Seems a little gross to suggest that refugees will bring whatever tyrannies they’re fleeing along with them…
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@IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 2026-03-09 05:38
Oh I agree I was just trying to provide a contrast angle, to emphasize the point. Of course there were good, but clearly too many leaked through, and while the blanket answer is ‘corrupt power strives for power,’ I believe in a more nuanced kind of way. Obviously having Einstein was a boon, but what if he’d been the kinda shit we deal with today? White-Christian-nationalist Einstein sounds like a worst-case scenario. We got off lucky and that’s putting it nicely.
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@IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 2026-03-09 05:42
Don’t know where you got the idea that he was a nazi He was just an example of how the US was scooping up German scientists like Einstein. Learn your shit before you call others out.