• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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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.