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People in the comments trying to make the case for the holocaust being somehow uniquely horrific are proving this person's point. You're all so painfully unaware of the vast suffering the western civilization has wrought upon the world over centuries.
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Hitler is viewed as being uniquely evil in Western history because he brought to Europe what Europeans had been doing to other people across the world for centuries.
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Anonymous 5w

The claim isn’t that the Holocaust was uniquely horrific, it was that Hitler and the Nazis were uniquely evil. The way they weaponized science, media, industry, etc. to rapidly and mechanically carry out torture and murder had never been conceived of before, and hopefully will never be replicated

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

And that isn’t to say no one else has ever been evil or been “as evil,” but Hitler and the Nazis certainly came up with new ways of carrying out their evilness that make them noteworthy

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

This sort of thinking is nonsense. There are millions of Americans today that support precisely that. There are prominent members of the federal government that would prefer to reduce the US population to about a third (and make it entirely white). Treating Nazism as a unique evil is a liberal delusion to pretend that it was an aberration, and not an inevitable result of certain conditions that are inevitable under capitalism.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

The weren't. We've done the same throughout history, that just happened to be the most recent time it happened on such a large scale.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

I’m not arguing with the existence of people who might think that way, and have thought that way throughout history. I’m saying that the Nazis’ methods of carrying out genocide were historically unique. The current administration is following their blueprint but I’m not going to equate “some guy said this” to “this guy was directly responsible for the murder of 11 million people”

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

What I’m saying isn’t mutually exclusive with the concept of other deeply evil people who were also unique in their methods

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

They weren’t. Treating it as an aberration makes it seem like it was this crazy fluke. It wasn’t. It’s not “some guy” it’s arguably the most influential member of the cabinet, Stephen Miller is probably more the president than trump at this point because Trump has no idea what’s going on

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