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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes, he's from Germany. During the lives of his parents and grandparents, Germany had a couple decades uner a nazi regime. But saying that Schwab is a nazi is like saying he's male, or saying he is European. Gross generalizations help nobody and certainly don't shed light on things.

Pointedly, did the Scwab family take advantage of the political power structure in place in order to enrich themselves, and happen to do so during the nazi era, or are they ideologues? This awful article attempts to paint Schwab as an ideologue, and his parents with the same brush, while providing zero evidence of this. Instead the article states that his father and grandfather made big bucks during the nazi era. OK.

So, 25 years from now Jeff Bezos will be painted as a Trump supporter because he made tons of money during the Trump term? Bill Gates same thing? See where I'm going with this?

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think it's more the continuation of anti-human ideologies he has held which is the issue rather than the nazi links in particular.

In the 1990s the green party in the UK was full of exBNP people. It's because they kept the belief that people or too many are a problem which needs to be sold and just moved that to a different cause, from racial purity to saving the planet.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For once we agree on something. But the Nazis weren't anti-human. They were a force for GOOD against the Marxist and communist evil that we are seeing loose on the world today.