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by TaXaZ 1597 days ago
Agree but I'm not sure, if my comment understood correctly.

1. I didn't talk about should, I describe the problem with parent comment i.e. immorality of normalization. I have heard such justification before which goes to similar next step. That next step was what the normalizers might say.

2. It's from the point of white washers not the moral stand point that you depicts

3. As a proof, just check the comment in this section by @dirtyid which describe the 'next' I talked about:

   > Behaving like a "savage" has very little to do with time but where countries are in their development.
~~(fun fact, I didn't saw it the first time and it was delightful seeing a proof in next step above)~~

Again, If it wasn't clear originally, What I liked to bring attention to is the white-washing (normalization) of tyrannies. It has been done for Nazis and it's currently being done in western journalists and lobbyist. Look at any sort of authoritarian atrocity and you'll see a white washer in NY or DC normalizing it.