No, because Hitler started second world war which resulted in 60-70 million deaths.

Ah, that's why Napoleon is taboo. Because he killed mostly Europeans.

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This is a rare L; Hitler is mainstream taboo because he is one of the few figures of the few movements which is associated with industrialized genocide as its core cause.

There are a lot of genocidal shitheads who don't get the infamy they deserve in history, make no mistake, and some of them skirt by because of racism. But Hitler being Enemy #1 has much more to do with how and why than where.

... though, related to the trio mentioned, that Churchill is excluded from the likes of Leopold in the popular imagination is certainly a travesty. Four years of service does not redeem forty years of inhumanity.

Some of this I think comes down to documentation. We have so much documented evidence from every level of administration of the rise, crimes, and fall of the Third Reich.

Leopold and Rhodes I think enjoy the obscurity of the 19th century/pre-World War 1 world. Even with direct and clear connections to modern society or even WW2, they operated at a time when monarchies dominated Europe. It's just enough of a costume change to have them appear irrelevant.

How many King Leopold apologists have you met?

isnt the british empire seen as bad?

I feel like Leopold is definitely in the "absolutely massive cunt" gang. Right folks? Right?

Yeah.... Winston Churchill's initiatives killed plenty of Europeans. The main reason Hitler is demonized is because he lost the war, that's how history works.

And to be fair the main reason why Rhoades and especially Leopold aren't on the same level as Hitler is because most people don't really study history. I don't think I've ever seen anyone claim Leopold was a good dude, he was ostracized in his own lifetime once his crimes were made public.

I think it was the gas chambers

What a truly diumb-fuck take

I am unconvinced of the "because Hitler had European victims."

Everyone knows Pol Pot and he didn't kill any Europeans. Same with Mao Zedong and Stalin.

Also, the "Young Turks" kill Europeans. Everyone knows of the Armenian Genocide, but the Assyrian Genocide, the Greek Genocide, and the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon are often forgotten about.

Leopold II is on lists of the biggest death tolls by dictatorships

Going back to that one single list, and not all of the others that may list them differently, every know about numbers 1,2,3.

Anyway, all of this to say, there is only a very thin veil of civility to the world. We could die in the next.

it's Lemmy, talk about class war and you'll make friends.

talk about antiracism and they get their pitchforks.

JFC, talking about idiotic blurps that should not leave your mouth (or in this case, fingers)

What about Mao Zedong? He had a pretty ridiculous kill count as well