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Welcome... to the real world, Neo. (feddit.nl)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Grew up in a cult that refuses to do any military (JW), so at least one benefit I guess in that I was never brought up to venerate the military, or even any living person.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    For whatever their faults are, I have always liked that JWs refuse military service. I think they were some of the smaller groups that the Nazis persecuted in WW2, so they have a record of sacrificing themselves for a good principle.

    Edits: correct some grammar

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, they definitely make sure we know that being raised in it. Had a purple triangle mark to denote them and other pacifistic religions. They also were some of the earliest arrested due to their refusal to do the Hitler salute, which they also refuse nowadays to salute anyth*or say any allegiance pledges. While their reasons are religious based, I still refuse to do those too.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Huh, yeah that purple triangle. I remember that now. I went to the Holocaust museum in DC a long time ago and everyone in our group was given a passport-looking dossier of a victim. Most were Jews, some Roma, and mine was a JW woman.

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