This is als the same ridiculousness that Maoists pull - "hey, we haven't slaughtered a few million anytime recently and we don't mean to anyway and besides it's not as bad as historians say".
The only thing that mitigates the ability of Nazis and communists to brutalize the impure is the extent to which they don't have power. Every time either group gets power, the results are awful.
wew lad. Buckle up my dude's we're on a one way trip to locked thread land.
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Never claimed he did. Law and order and such. Doesn't mean I'm going to feel bad for the Nazi. In fact I may laugh a bit about it but I still fully expect the person doing the assault to receive the punishment.
Funy how the noe-nazi side seems the most reasonable and the less violent right now.
Oh I'm not denying those existed, and I am sure you can link up Trail of tears or other indian genocides to Liberalism at a stretch.
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Oh let's hope. I personally don't deny the Holocaust at all, but I think it's been "Anti-romanticized" to all hell and back and been turned into such a farce I can't take it seriously anymore.
The trail of tears resulted in ~5K deaths. It is, by any measure, an atrocity. It's also three orders of magnitude less than the Holocaust.
If the worst examples of atrocities committed by nominally liberal societies are so comparably small, it reinforces just how large the gap in morality is between these ideologies. More to the point, pretty much every modern liberal condemns these atrocities - the main problem neo-Nazis have with the Holocaust is that they didn't finish the job.
If you are gonna use historical facts to judge the people of today, why do we not acknowledge the 1500 years of aggressive
muslim warfare into Europe and Asia? Or the enslaving of Europeans by Islamist?
Do we forget the Armenians and greeks that lived where Turkey is today?
Do we forget southern Sudan?
Do we forget western New Guinea?
Do we forget East Timor?
By any reasonable measure, it's among the half worst horrors ever perpetrated by mankind. The only comparable atrocities have been those of 20th century communists, Imperial Japan, and Mongols. The specifics are as horrifying as anything that's ever happened (there are many horrors that don't bear comparing, but I'm probably most personally appalled by Pot's crimes).
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I don't think you'll find a lot of posts from me saying positive things about Islam.
- These estimates are not credible
- Wars aren't that similar to extermination
- All credible estimates of American killing of civilians are under 100K
Again, if a war (which wasn't initiated by Americans) is your best example of liberals committing something comparable to the Holocaust, you're making my point for me.
I haven't seen it discussed. ITT people think it is ok to harm other people because they have different ideologies and ignore the fact that communism has killed way more people than naziism. And that's just from a Eurocentric stance. Take into account communism in Asia and it has killed more than 20 times as many people.
So for those of us that aren't Nazis should we be doing our part and harming all unAmerican thought?