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<blockquote data-quote="Dogbrain" data-source="post: 1561228" data-attributes="member: 14980">Actually, anti-German racism is still remarkably common in the USA to the present day.&nbsp; Whenever some political loony decides that he wants to portray all that is evil, he'll drop into a pseudo-German accent or start using pseudo-German spelling.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because the little politiloon is of the prejudice that &quot;German&quot; == &quot;Nazi&quot;.&nbsp; Having worked with several Germans, studied with several other Germans, and done a bit of looking at modern Germany, I'd say that this attitude is pretty much identical to any other form of racism.&nbsp; The best part is that it is done so very unquestioningly and casually by its perpetrators.&nbsp; It's a much more insidious and harmful form of racism than is the very open and very intentional sorts that we hear about on the news when a Klan rally has crudesced locally.Essentially, talking about &quot;Herr Busche&quot; and writing &quot;Amerika&quot; whenever they want to portray certain politicians and countries as &quot;fascist&quot; is very close to the sort of all-pervasive racism that one could find in the historical era in question, just substitute &quot;colored&quot; for &quot;German&quot; and &quot;lazy, shiftless, childlike&quot; for &quot;fascist/Nazi&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dogbrain, post: 1561228, member: 14980"] Actually, anti-German racism is still remarkably common in the USA to the present day. Whenever some political loony decides that he wants to portray all that is evil, he'll drop into a pseudo-German accent or start using pseudo-German spelling. Why? Because the little politiloon is of the prejudice that "German" == "Nazi". Having worked with several Germans, studied with several other Germans, and done a bit of looking at modern Germany, I'd say that this attitude is pretty much identical to any other form of racism. The best part is that it is done so very unquestioningly and casually by its perpetrators. It's a much more insidious and harmful form of racism than is the very open and very intentional sorts that we hear about on the news when a Klan rally has crudesced locally. Essentially, talking about "Herr Busche" and writing "Amerika" whenever they want to portray certain politicians and countries as "fascist" is very close to the sort of all-pervasive racism that one could find in the historical era in question, just substitute "colored" for "German" and "lazy, shiftless, childlike" for "fascist/Nazi". [/QUOTE]

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