Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics.
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 3 hours agoI’m not really seeing any purpose other than trying to paint him as some sort of aberrant freak, and I don’t see any purpose in that beyond trying to absolve the greater social milieu (which included a great many Brits!) in what happened.
axont@hexbear.net 2 hours ago
There’s an obsession with painting Hitler as a unique figure whose rise to power and fascist crimes were the result of a confluence of personality disorders, family history, his experiences in WW1. It’s mainly a liberal thing because they really need the history of fascism to be the history of singular evil figures, rather than the result of imperialist capitalism eating itself. It would be very useful for the liberal world order to place blame on genetics or individual psychology for the machinations of history. Rather than the consequences of things like economic conditions, imperialism, class struggle, etc
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 2 hours ago
lathe-of-heaven “Huh weird, looks like all Palestinians and Chinese people have the Hitler gene. Well kiddo, I don’t like mass bombing either but it looks like we need to stop fascism once and for all.”