Hitler Did No Good Things

Just a Quick Reminder

“You have to admit, Hitler did a few good things.”

No, I do not have to admit that. Hitler did some things that didn’t directly involve murdering millions of people, but even those things were in service of murdering millions of people. He made the trains run on time in order to kill millions of people efficiently. He invented Volkswagen in order to raise money to kill millions of people. He briefly decreased unemployment, putting folks to work killing millions of people. He built the autobahns to help invade countries in order to kill millions of people.

This post is apropos of nothing. Except that many of the conversation/arguments I’ve had with American conservatives (many of whom used to be dear friends) often featured some variation on this, and I think about it a lot during these times of ultra-Right ascendance. And while I’m at it, no, “some slaves” did not enjoy being slaves, which again, if you’ve had as many conversations with Right Wing Americans as I have you will know is also a thing out there, and is also a moral abdication to even say out loud. That nonsense is also rattling around in my head during these dark dystopian days, especially when talk of secession is thrown around by those on the Right AND the Left. I’m honestly not entirely sure the South would not try to enslave people again.*

If you meet anyone who leaks either one of these diarrhea ideas out of their face hole, send them to me.

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*see: the exception clause of the Thirteenth Amendment.

(Earlier versions of this post misspelled “secession” as “succession” because I’m dumb.