We can ' t be the one making that decision for them either . We need to stop isolating them ourselves , they aren ' t outsiders . They are US . <| sep |> I know what I ' m gonna try after work . Edit My local WalMart was sold out . Life goes oooooon ~<| sep |> I ' m not American and I will not comment about the more U . S . related aspects of the post but the way in which the author compares the behaviour of academic institutions in Nazi Germany with the one of religions is gravely mistaken at best and blatantly dishonest at worst . Yes , some Catholics and , also , members of other denominations or religions have heroically opposed Nazism , and they deserve praise for this but let us not forget that many Christians have applauded Hitler ' s rise to power heck , there existed churches that were full of Nazi s y m b o l s t h e l a s tnazichurchintodaysberlin . The Catholic Church ' s attitude towards Nazism was . complicated , and less uniformly condemnatory that the author implies and let us not forget please let us not forget that Pope Pius XI acclaimed Mussolini as a man from Providence . Also , let us not fucking forget I do not swear often , but as a Catholic myself I must say that this is not the sort of thing that we should ever ever permit ourselves to forget that even if Hitler ' s antisemitism was not religiously motivated , the fact that there was antisemitism in Europe for him to exploit was largely due to 1000 years of Christian antisemitism , of which both Protestants and Catholics have been guilty heck , until not so long ago the Catholic Good Friday liturgy contained the words perfidious Jews , and of course we should also remember the antiJewish persecutions during the Middle Ages and Early Modern era the Reconquista was an especially disgusting case , of course , but there were also the Rhineland Massacres and several expulsions and of course Cum nimis absurdum , the bull with which Pope Paul IV revoked Jewish civil rights and forced Jews to live in ghettos . So perhaps maybe let us not preen ourselves too much about religion being a bulwark against tyranny and intolerance , alright ? Also , this post is growing too large already , but it is not at all true that German academics bowed to Hitler . Many of the German academics fled towards the U . S . , and some of the best German physicists even joined the Manhattan project despite the fact that the Atomic Bomb could have easily been used against their own home . Also , Kurt Huber one of the leaders of the White Rose was a professor , and many of the other components of the group were university students . TLDR the link ' s comparison of Christianity and Academia ' s reaction to Hitler ' s rise to power is incorrect at best and dishonest at worst .