Hitler Did Nothing Wrong

Right there, I managed to trigger your inner social justice warrior. I mean, how I could possibly say something so offensive and so absurd taking into consideration how much suffering humanity underwent under the particular ruler.

Much like in the survivor-ship bias effect where we tend to remember only the winners while putting the losers on the back of our mind. The Hitler-effect is much the same. For some reason we have come to a conclusion that the winners of WW2 were the heroes while the losers where the evil tyrants. We like this analogy much like we like the narratives of religion and Star Wars. It makes sense to our very primal instincts.

History is indeed written by winners and based on that, custom narratives can be build. There is no way one can know for sure how history came to be but one can at least speculate. For example, genetic engineering took place in American labs before even Hitler dreamed about them. Same applies about biological weapons. Do we acknowledged any of that? Ofcourse not. We eat McDonalds and buy Apple while watching American pop-culture on TV. Our truth is the collective opinion of the people. Get enough people to support a view and that view becomes reality. There is ofcourse evidence but we choose to label those who surface that evidence as crazies.

I could as easily begin this post with "Cleopatra did nothing wrong" or "Kengis Kan did nothing wrong" or "Alexander the Great did nothing wrong" but I would fail to capture your naive sense of political correctness. The brain-fuckery does not work as efficiently when we roll back in history a few hundred years back. Even though Hitler is ancient History for those being offended, the propaganda is still very real. It is revived and reminded with every chance we get, up to the point that there is even a logical fallacy after it "Ad-Hitlereum" pointing out the eventuality that after a certain point, every argument turns into a party accusing the other for being a Hitler.

Just last week a man was fined for training his dog to do a nazi salute. Once again, the established rule of political correctness draws the line and limits speech for something rather arbitrary. Most people getting offended by the nazi salute wouldn't even be able to name the places of concentration camps or address properly the events of WW2. They just know that they should get offended because something "really really bad" happened in conjunction with that person. Heck, public discussion about it is enough to make anyone uncomfortable, even more than any political or religious discussion. Now, why is that?

If our legal system is tied up emotional responses from democratic expression then we are fucked. In 300 years the things Hitler did will be indistinguishable to those the Allies did from those who study history. They will see that the winners of WW2 just established a narrative, a propaganda, much like Stalin and Kim Jong Il does. The killings are all justified sacrifices when we view them from the rulers perspective. Sending troops to get killed in Normandy is a more proper way to die rather than turning some others into soap. The hero narrative is more justified in our ears because, well, they told us so.

The only difference today is that we are living under the American Empire and we can't tell how bad it is. If Hitler had won, rest assured we would be supporting a much similar narrative, just from the opposing side. The slogan "Land of free" and American making a synonym of "freedom" has eluded us enough so we ignore its war machine and rather watch 24/7 through Netflix its entertainment substitute. And while we do that, we get deeply offended when someone trains their dog to make a salut that is related to a war that took place more than a century ago.

"How dare you say Hitler did nothing wrong you ignorant imbecile! "