User blog comment:Jeremiah Garland/A Calm, Serious Request (Please no Fighting)/@comment-2158118-20120523140131/@comment-3112181-20120524012204

I have been to a Holocaust museum, several times. I've been to Germany thrice, have a few German friends, and am aware of the shame Germany still feels about their Nazi past. However, that is beside the point. The point is, Nazism, like so many other countries in history, is just another failed government infamously known for its mass murder count. However, (I'm not trying to make it sound like I'm supporting Hitler or anything, only proving a point), I've noticed that Americans tend to have a certain hate for Hitler, due to the two wars America has been involved in against Germany. Mao Zedong, for example, is responsible for the death of 60 million people in red China; about five times as many more deaths than Hitler is responsible for. Yet, how come nobody ever hates on Zedong because we've never been to war with China. I bet many people on this wiki have never even heard of him. Josef Stalin too; he's responsible for the death of about 22 million people in the USSR, but because we've never been to war with Russia, people tend to not give him as much infamousy as they do with Hitler. To further prove my point, most Americans share a dreaded hate for recent Midd Eastern leaders such as Osama bin Laden and Sadam Hussein. I realize that they have had a huge affect on the American population (especially with 9/11), but together, their overall murder count is suprisingly low. King Leopold II of Belgium is responsible for the death of 8 million, but where does his name come up in American society as an evil leader? But returning to the point, as Mikhail said, it is one thing to claim support and a profound love for Nazism, but simply talking about it and discussing it should be considered non-controversial, as it is just another failed government. The problem is, American propaganda tends to make citizens hate it more than other failed governments.