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i bet they make good dick-takers
^ see what i did there
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Found this gem in the comments section.
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When you make a man a monster, you give his image power. When you say "this was the greatest evil to ever live", some people only hear that he was great, because good and evil are somewhat slippery, relative terms.
You can see the results of it. Neo-nazis claim to follow Hitler's ideas, principally because people still fear those ideas, and that means they fear those who would follow them. That gives some people a sense of importance, a sense of power. And if getting there requires warping their ethics, and not paying particularly close attention to what he actually did, so be it.
And those are just for the self-proclaimed followers. What of the self-proclaimed successors? The men who see how "famous" and "powerful" Hitler was, and seek to copy him so they too can be famous and powerful?
If you want to prevent another Hitler, you make a mockery of him. You humiliate his memory. You make it so that anyone even claiming to follow him is ashamed, a target for derision and laughter, not fear. Make him a cartoonish mustache-twirling villain, or a ludicrous ghost robot monster, or a weak-looking anime girl.
We were doing that before the war was even halfway over. Did you ever watch "Der Fuehrer's Face"? Or hear the song "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball"? We were making a buffoon out of Hitler years before the Normandy Landings. I doubt anyone is going to be offended by this.
Do you know what I find most terrifying about Hitler? It wasn't that he was a monster. He wasn't some military genius - he arguably did more to secure a German defeat than the Allies, simply through his own incompetence. He wasn't some hypnotic leader - he was just in the right place at the right time. Given the state of Germany at the time, what happened was almost inevitable. He wasn't some inhuman monster - he was a person. He liked dogs and Disney movies. He wanted to be a painter.
No, the really scary part of Hitler was precisely that he was *not* a monster. He was just a man. Just a human. Just a regular person. Which means that everything he *did*, we are each capable of. You may say that you aren't, that you could never do such a thing, but you're lying to yourself. You could. *I* could. Any of us *could*.
And you know what the second scariest part is? Hitler never thought he was being evil. I don't think anybody could do something that *they* think is truly evil (excluding, of course, "necessary evils", which are at best the lesser of two evils, and thus the closest to "good" you can get in such a situation). So you can live all your life thinking you are doing the Right Thing, that you're doing it all for Truth, Justice, or whatever ideal you believe in, and meanwhile do all kinds of unspeakable things, like, say, murder twenty million people for not meeting your ideas of purity.
That's the scary part of Hitler. And that is *precisely* why we should feel free to mock and humiliate even the memory of him. So that we can fear what he *did* and not fear the man himself.
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Found this gem in the comments section.
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People are fantastic aren't they? |
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I'd like to nail mussolini.
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Yes. so anyone gunna pick this up?
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