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Originally Posted by Rydrallen
Do you know why there isn't a second Hitler after World War 2?
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I had to reply to this post.
To assume, there haven't been others like Hitler since World War 2 is a completely ignorant declaration. It's just too derivative.
Exactly what criteria are you using to make such a statement? One of the biggest problems I have with History in Western Education is the complete ignorance of other dictators since then. People conveniently choose to believe Hitler was the end all, be all of power abusing corrupt dictators.
If World War 2 really was the end, then we wouldn't have seen Stalin, Ceauşescu, Yahya Khan, Pinochet, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, Milošević, and, these are just the ones off of the top of my head. Oh yes, the current notorious one - Omar al-Bashir.
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Originally Posted by Charred Knight
because no one would elect a madman like that again?
Obviously their are people like Hitler, for example Osama Bin Laden.
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To assume Hitler and Osama Bin Laden are one and the same is a completely disparaging point of view. Hitler was a political leader. Osama Bin Laden is a religious fundamentalist. The former was a dictator. The latter is a terrorist.
If you assume madmen would not be elected, then Saddam Hussein wouldn't have come to power. Idi Amin wouldn't have come to power. Ayatollah Khomeini wouldn't have come to power. Slobodan Milošević wouldn't have come to power. Robert Mugabe wouldn't have come to power.
To assume that madmen will not be elected is a foolish and ignorant statement, and you're lying to yourself. Why don't you learn some post World War 2 history and then start commenting? World War 2 wasn't the end. Since then there have been many wars, dictators, and, yes, genocides.
Within World War 2, people only wish to focus on what happened in Nazi Germany, and that too only on the Jewish population's tragedy. Well guess what, the total number of victims goes all the way up to between 10 and 12 million, and, that too only through the best possible estimates. The other victims are conveniently forgotten as if they aren't worthy of remembrance. That itself is extremely discriminatory.
On top of that, the 20 million Chinese who were put into concentration camps and systematically killed by the Imperial Japanese Military after human experimentation and cannibalism (yes, you read that correctly) seem to have no mention whatsoever in history textbooks. People seem to know about Auschwitz, but, no one seems to have the faintest idea what Unit 731 is.
Since World War 2, there were many other genocides. Cambodia, Uganda, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), Iraq (Kurdish region), Serbia/Bosnia/Sarajevo, Rwanda/Burundi, Sudan (Darfur Region). Need I go on? There are plenty more.
The way media chooses to focus only on one as the end all, be all disgusts me, not to mention, Hollywood and Corporate America has already succeeded in making The Holocaust (specifically Ha'Shoa while conveniently refusing to acknowledge the Porajmos and other victims) into a brand. If we truly believed that World War 2 would end it all, then these other tragedies wouldn't have occurred.
Stop believing all the propaganda shoved down your throat and learn to use your own brain for a change. History has shown, that there will always be someone who'll come up to power and use it and abuse it without control and check, regardless of the measures and systems used in play to keep them from doing so.
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