Hannibal said:
Yeah, no shit.
Hollywood has probably killed more Nazis than WWII.
It's been a nonstop barrage of "you're either with us or you're Hitler" rhetoric. It's been hashed and rehashed so many times, there's even a law named after bringing up WWII (and Hitler) in an internet argument.
I'm so fucking sick of hearing the "so-and-so is literally Hitler" accusation. Why not spice it up a little bit? Why not use Genghis Khan, Hirohito, Mussolini, Sultan Abdulhamit, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Theodoric the Goth, Charles Martel, or any of the other historical figures you'd never know of because you were born after their time and you had to get that information from books, your grandparents, or the mass media?
It won't be long until no one alive was involved in WWII (or even remembers it as an event). Will the Hitler polemic go away then or will we get more care trolls pretending to have experienced the events through osmosis? How much time has to pass until people can shut up about the Holocaust? It seems like people already quit giving a shit about 9/11 and it's only been 15 years since that happened.
The irretrievable fact is, to the American psyche, the Nazis and everything they stand for the personification of evil, the synonym of everything that is bad and immoral and ugly in this world. They embody the holy trinity of SJW causes:
Racism,
sexism,
homophobia. That attitude is held far more religiously, ironically, than in the European lands that Nazi Germany actually affected; I would wager that a hullabaloo of this sort would
not exist were a group of students in the Netherlands — a country that
did come under German occupation — were seen to be playing this game. Much of the ire towards the Nazis in the rest of the English speaking world came as a result of US pop culture — much of our animosity was against Japan; to this day, many Australian POWs who did time in Asia will not buy a single Japanese product. To say nothing of Asia itself, where Japan killed more Chinese than Hitler killed Jews.
I can't really explain such strong feeling towards Nazism, which aren't logical — Germany didn't launch a single offensive operation against the American mainland, in fact both countries only went to war pretty late in the game, in 1941. I mean Japan did attack US soil, and committed far more atrocities against US POWs. But the Nazis still take first place.
But the fact is that despite the comparative body count that Genghis Khan or Attila boasted, their atrocities are far, far too lost in the midst of time to rate an iota of controversy in our feelings. And Stalin, Pol Pot? No-one can explain why the towering evils of Communism have just faded from our care.
Indeed,
Das Kapital,
The Communist Manifesto and
The Motorcycle Diaries are on the must-read list of students as a trendy badge of honour. Che Guevara may have been every bit a murderer as Heinrich Himmler was, yet the former's face proudly adorns the T-shirts of young progressives throughout the West — I will applaud your bravery if you survive walking through a college campus with a T-shirt bearing the image of the latter.
More to the point, the swastika, a symbol of luck and protection, has been irretrievably rendered taboo by That Most Evil Organisation. Despite in use not just in WW1 by the Allies:
But as the totem of my grandparents' religion for thousands of years:
There's
nothing that can be done to dislodge the repute of that ambassador of the extreme Right.
Live with it.
