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>>21503713
>Wouldn't it make more sense for them to ally with them?

>>10300818
>but I thiiiink you're doing it only to paint the racists in a good light.

Literally every country in WW2, Allied and Axis aligned had openly racist policies. The Germans mistreated (and later murdered) the Jews and Gypsies. Britain and France ruled their colonial subjects with an iron fist. The Soviet Union murdered entire populations of Asians, Poles, and Germans (Germans who had lived in Russia for 200 years and had nothing to do with the Nazis) in NKVD mass operations or "labor columns". The United States had not only segregation, but was a leader in the Eugenics movement that Nazism was partially spawned from. The whole idea that racial supremacism and segregation were morally wrong only became prominent in the aftermath of World War II, when the excesses of those systems reached a level of cruelty and violence that not even the perpetrators could justify themselves.

TL;DR A hypothetical Confederate States fighting in WW2 on the side of the Allies would have been no more racist than its neighbor, the United States, or the British Empire, or the Soviet Union. The Allies weren't fighting the Axis Powers because they were racist (the US before the war, had more than content to mostly ignore the plight of Jews in German and totally ignore non-Russians in the USSR), the Allies were fighting because the Axis Powers had invaded them.