Not just see “a statue of Hitler” but “a statue of Hitler erected on the town square by decree of the town government”.
Wanna know the fundamental difference? We rounded up and executed a bunch of Nazis and made the word into a shorthand for “reprehensible bastard who can’t exist in society.”
Respect which is demanded or forced is NOT respect, it’s compliance. Nothing more.
Traditions including religion(!) do not automatically deserve our respect. Ever.
I literally feel dumber for having read that
It’s still crazy, also it’s a literal traitor to the country. Hitler analogy aside the fact that statues were built and protected of literal traitors is everything you need to know about Jan 6th and MAGA politics.
So what? History is a set of facts, not a pool of emotion and opinion. Put the Hitler statue next to MLK or whatever.
Easy: those people deny the holocaust existed.
As a Brit, the fact that America has Confederate statues baffles me, and I agree that they should all be toppled and melted down.
However, this is a bit of a false equivalence. The North Atlantic slave trade was a fucking horrible dark stain on human history but it was a terrible means to a pretty innocent ends, growing crops.
The holocaust was a continental scale genocide of an entire race. It was industrial death and destruction for the sake of death and destruction.
Not everything needs to be compared to the Nazis. Somethings are their own flavour of horrible.
Anyone who legitimately says the confederacy is their heritage is just adding another indictment of the American education system. They need to go read an actual history book. I’ve taken shits that lasted longer than the confederacy.
Please don’t give the AfD any ideas.
To all you woke mob out there, my town will never tear down its Hitler statue! It’s local flavor and part of our community!
There has never been an internet comment ever written that is worth reading that begins “let’s paint a picture” and that includes the late Bob Ross
But it’s not a racist country…. 🙄
Hell, about a third of the people in America would probably defend the Hitler statue too.
“ It’s not hate! It’s heritage!” Um, yeah. A heritage of hate!
The annoying orange lasted longer than the confederacy…… it’s not heritage.
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Not just see “a statue of Hitler” but “a statue of Hitler erected on the town square by decree of the town government”.
Wanna know the fundamental difference? We rounded up and executed a bunch of Nazis and made the word into a shorthand for “reprehensible bastard who can’t exist in society.”
Meanwhile, ~~ancestors~~ (edit: *descendents*; time still moves forward afaik) of slaveholders are today [the richest members of the US Congress.](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0308351)
Respect which is demanded or forced is NOT respect, it’s compliance. Nothing more.
Traditions including religion(!) do not automatically deserve our respect. Ever.
I literally feel dumber for having read that
It’s still crazy, also it’s a literal traitor to the country. Hitler analogy aside the fact that statues were built and protected of literal traitors is everything you need to know about Jan 6th and MAGA politics.
So what? History is a set of facts, not a pool of emotion and opinion. Put the Hitler statue next to MLK or whatever.
Easy: those people deny the holocaust existed.
As a Brit, the fact that America has Confederate statues baffles me, and I agree that they should all be toppled and melted down.
However, this is a bit of a false equivalence. The North Atlantic slave trade was a fucking horrible dark stain on human history but it was a terrible means to a pretty innocent ends, growing crops.
The holocaust was a continental scale genocide of an entire race. It was industrial death and destruction for the sake of death and destruction.
Not everything needs to be compared to the Nazis. Somethings are their own flavour of horrible.
Anyone who legitimately says the confederacy is their heritage is just adding another indictment of the American education system. They need to go read an actual history book. I’ve taken shits that lasted longer than the confederacy.
Please don’t give the AfD any ideas.
To all you woke mob out there, my town will never tear down its Hitler statue! It’s local flavor and part of our community!
There has never been an internet comment ever written that is worth reading that begins “let’s paint a picture” and that includes the late Bob Ross
But it’s not a racist country…. 🙄
Hell, about a third of the people in America would probably defend the Hitler statue too.
“ It’s not hate! It’s heritage!” Um, yeah. A heritage of hate!
The annoying orange lasted longer than the confederacy…… it’s not heritage.