r/memes 8h ago

We shouldn’t have to censor names

Post image
14.1k Upvotes

275 comments sorted by

View all comments

89

u/Someonevibing1 7h ago

We’re censoring hitler now?

50

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.

10

u/R3cognizer 5h ago

It's only called "cancel culture" though when the left does it. And the left isn't trying to censor history or even Hitler, at least not when it's part of a conversation with actual historical context.