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Off Topic » in reply to of course, Larry - that's exactly what I've been saying all along. The Nazis are just the standard bearers for genocide, but not the only ones. I have said this over and over again.

re: of course, Larry - that's exactly what I've been saying all along. The Nazis are just the standard bearers for genocide, but not the only ones. I have said this over and over again.
Larry J — (archived)

And that's what Tom has been saying all along, too. No one here is disputing the blunt fact that the Nazis were mass murderers on a horrific scale. No one is defending them in the least. What Tom was pointing out is the historical fact that communist governments were also mass murderers on a horrific scale (Stalin murdered even more people than Hitler), but some are willing to give them a pass. Mass murder is mass murder, regardless of whether the government was fascist, communist, or something else. All should be condemned. If a college professor wrote favorable articles about Nazism, he would almost certainly find himself without a job. Why should it be any different if he'd written in favor of other ideologies that committed mass murder?

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