balalaikaboss:

bitchitoldyouigottaste:

enigmaland:

littleselfia:

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

Not very funny, but it’s the truth.

http://american-sociopath.tumblr.com/

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

— George Bernard Shaw

Unfortunately, that’s so true. 

I would say that the most important thing studying history taught me is that anyone is capable of anything, given the right circumstances. 

Fun thing that happened: the guy who complained about being assigned a primary source because it was racist.

CAN YOU REALLY NOT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN A TEXT ASSIGNED YOU SO YOU COULD UNDERSTAND A TIME PERIOD AND A SINISTER RACIST AGENDA?

IS THIS THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN? 

Also the professor who may think I’m a Nazi sympathizer because I tried to communicate humanity’s capacity for evil and she interpreted “The Nazis were humans too” as opposed to “The Nazis were humans, so portraying them as inhuman monsters is far too flattering to humanity and defiles the memory of those they killed.”

The most important lesson to learn about the Nazis is their very humanity, and this is a lesson so few people learn. The tendency to paint them as inhuman and evil beyond comprehension misses the entire point. 

The whole point is to learn that humans are indeed capable of that industrial butchery. The Nazis were human beings who believed they were doing the right thing. It means that anyone could, again, perform the same butchery. Indeed, genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia suggests that yes, you don’t need a dramatic political ideology to massacre a people.