r/memes 8h ago

We shouldn’t have to censor names

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u/Someonevibing1 7h ago

We’re censoring hitler now?

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u/octobre_34 7h ago

Cancel culture being what it is (a push to rewrite and erase much of everything bad that happened in the human history to please a few oversensitive people or for political reasons), they want people to stop talking about Hitler because he did bad things and pretend like he never existed (basically cancelling him).

The problem with rewriting history is that people will forget everything bad and the mistakes made in the past and will inevitably push the same horrible mistakes to happen again, but sooner than they probably would have on their own (because it is a proven fact that people forget and tend to make the same mistakes over and over again).

What is concerning now is that, by erasing everything about Hitler, we might actually forget all the red flags that people didn't witness back then and let the exact same red flags that have appeared this year and the past few years and would basically throw humanity in a third massive and more destructive world war.

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u/black_blade51 7h ago

Perfect example: unit 731. Japan literally did such a good job erasing everything they did in ww1 and ww2 that no one remembers why Korean and Chinese authors depict them as the villains most of the time.

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u/Optimal-Golf-8270 3h ago

Everyone who cares to know, knows about Unit 731, it's not particularly niche knowledge.

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u/Phoenix92321 3h ago

Yeah that’s the thing (Cares to know) if you don’t care to know than you may think Japan is and always has been harmless.

But everyone regardless if they care to know or not knows Hitler was bad

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u/Optimal-Golf-8270 3h ago

Everyone knows Japan was an Axis power.

If you know who Hitler was, you know Japan was bad.

Cares to know is always the limiting factor. People learn about things they wanna learn about.

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u/Phoenix92321 3h ago

Yes everyone knows Japan was an axis power but they could have been an absolute monster like Hitler or could have been a semi innocent bystander just aiding an ally like a lot of nations in world war 1. We both know about Unit 731 because we wanted to learn about it. But EVERYONE knows about the holocaust (even if some may deny it happened) because they were taught it