• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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    Nonsense. Hitler is taboo in EU and US because of the atrocities he committed towards Europeans. Not because they “conquered democratic Europeans”. Americans have done and are doing the same and more towards latin america, asia and middle east without anything close to that condemnation. It’s not about the conquest, it’s about westerners being OK with imperialist atrocity as long as it’s done against the “other”.

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      1 year ago

      That’s bullshit and you should know it. No powerful nation reached its status without oppressing and exploiting the weak, no matter the direction of the compass you’re watching. And the more ambitious, the greater the horrors committed.

      You think the US isn’t being condemned? Have you been on the internet? It’s been and being condemned every day from the start. They just don’t give a fuck because they’re the foremost global military power.

      Please. Out of sight, out of mind is a general human condition. Don’t excuse all others by making it an exclusive trait of a certain group you happen to dislike.

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        1 year ago

        Not exactly. Hitler is taboo in EU because he did to the Europeans what they were doing to the rest of the world until then. But he’s certainly not taboo in a lot of the colonies, which see him as the unlikely anti-hero which pretty much destroyed the colonial powers which were oppressing them until then.

        And no, the US is not nearly as condemned as Nazi Germany, except by radical leftists which are the ones making memes like these.

        The point of this meme is to point out the European hypocrisy, and I don’t get your urgent need to discount that.

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          1 year ago

          Iranians greeted the german national team with the hitler salute. In 2004. Not because he “destroyed the colonial powers that oppressed them”. But because he killed people who werent Iranian. And half of them were Jewish.

          You know, the people werent considered to be European in the 40s and who still arent considered European by the right.

          Every continent, every region ignores the atrocities of those who did not kill them, lol.