Comments by "Pyromania101" (@pyromania1018) on "Biographics"
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Becomes less tragic in this case when most of the problems are self-inflicted. Hitler's woes, real and imagined, were brought about by his own laziness and massive ego. He spent his whole life being a parasite, thus, I don't pity him. He should have tried harder in school and he should have tried to get a job. His mother's pampering didn't help, but he made his choices. Had she been stricter with him, things might have turned out differently. Hell, he only got into the German Army because the file stating he was medically unfit got lost. Were it not for that, he would have eventually starved on the streets of Vienna (or Munich), which would have, again, been entirely his own fault due to his laziness and pride.
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After reading through all this, I might as well get some things off my chest. First, I voted for Trump both times, but I don't think that necessarily makes me a racist. Second, much as I hate to say it, I have some prejudices--everyone does, to a degree: I think Christian scientists are murderers, and I'm not too fond of Islam because of the sexism. That doesn't mean I think they should be butchered or anything like that, though I do think the children of Christian scientists should be put in foster care before their parents get them killed. Third, time to address some things here:
1. Yes, slavery existed in one form or another for millennia, but what people who preach that in an attempt to lessen how evil the CSA was tend to ignore is just how the system worked before then. In early days, one side enslaved the other because they won a war. In Rome, that principle applied, but laws were gradually passed to make it less unbearable, and they did not give a rat's ass about skin color. It was even expected to free a few slaves every now and then, and any children they had afterwards would have full citizenship. I'm not saying any of this excuses slavery as a system, but comparing slavery in the antebellum South to other forms of it misses the point. Honestly, the best comparison would be to the Jews enslaved by the Egyptians in the Book of Exodus, which really demonstrates the thorough hypocrisy that the South reveled in.
2. The North as a whole did not care about abolishing slavery (though some generals and politicians did, and tried to go further*), but the South DID care about maintaining and expanding it. It's a simple case of black-and-grey morality: the Northerners weren't trying to be heroes, but the Southerners were going out of their way to be villains. The right thing being done for less-than altruistic reasons is still the right thing being done. Just like in WWII: many Allied soldiers were anti-Semitic to a degree, but they were shocked by the death camps and didn't hesitate to liberate them.
3. I noticed Jan Brady pointing out that African Americans didn't complain about all those Confederate statues. To that, I say: do you really think they could've stopped those statues from being built? Do you think the cities gave a damn whether or not they felt insulted by the glorification of a "culture" that kept them in bondage? Of course not. They had no say, so if they complained, they'd have been beaten down.
4. The tearing down of those statues isn't erasing history: it's acknowledging that some bits of history should not be lionized.
* Men like Thaddeus Stevens and General Rufus Saxton were fervent abolitionists and civil rights activists; and one Union commander befriended Harriet Tubman and allowed her to accompany him on his campaign, during which he burned a Confederate city down after discovering how its residents treated their slaves.
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