The Satanic Temple is going to be very busy. Maybe I should make a donation.

Nope. They were perfectly legal as they were ordered by the government.

In WW2, the concentration camps and the Holocaust didn’t break any German or international laws. This is the first case where the charge of crimes against humanity was used.

The funny thing is that the Nuremberg Trials were based on retroactive laws. Nothing the Nazis did was technically illegal, so they were prosecuted on the basis that their actions were decided to be crimes after the fact.

The thing about the north that I’ve learned that surprised me is how many abolitionists held that belief because they didn’t want black and white people living together. They wanted an ethnostate.

The show Silicon Valley seemed so absurd at the time. Now I know I was too normal if anything.

First of all, you are confusing ethnicity and race. Second, most of your examples are entirely caused by social factors.

This is what is known as scientific racism. The US has always been the world’s #1 producer or it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism

Stop nominating psycho con artists and we can talk.

It might be worth mentioning that Andrew Johnson signed the Department of Education into law in 1867. It was elevated to a cabinet position in 1979 by Carter from it’s previous position within the Department of Health, Education, And Welfare.

The idea that the government has a constitutional interest in fostering the education of the public is NOT a new thing contrary to what conservatives would have you believe. An educated populace is an essential function of a representative democracy.