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crepuscular-girlthing · 23 days ago

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can you believe that some people want to *gasp* kill Hitler??

i know people disagree with him on some issues, but really, it's just such a fundamental social breakdown when you can't have political discourse without threats of violence!

He has a family, and millions of people agree with him! Would you kill them too???

Besides, he could still be persuaded to make reparations to the families of the people who've been killed suffered under his leadership. Justice can't be done with violence.

#most Americans approved of Hitler and his policies before America joined the war #Nazis used American systems of institutional racism and genocide as templates for their ethnic cleansing and eugenics #this is all old news #the idea that violence is too absurd to consider as an option because it abandons moral action #because “all people are fundamentally the same”so anyone being harmed is identical to harming an innocent #is just a complete victory of reactionary rhetoric designed to guilt progressives into refusing to fight back #sometimes people are evil for complicated reasons #that doesn't mean you musn't act without an equally nuanced solution #“let me perfectly unmake all the things about you that make you undesirable”#a perfectly reasonable approach that's definitely worked before

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