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by LewisVerstappen 1384 days ago
In what universe is Steve Jobs in the same category as dictators who killed tens of millions of people?
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From the grandparent comment, "Steve, like any other human, is a shade of grey."

The category being human.

In a universe with too many terminally online doomscrollers who make politics their personality
Cursed user name lol
Better than TotoHorner
In NO way anyone is making a comparison of Steve Jobs to a dictator. The original post was claiming:

> It's a habit of the internet diaspora to label a person either good or bad

> Steve, like any other human, is a shade of grey.

i.e. the completely correct but also completely useless claim that there is no person who is absolutely evil or absolutely good . What the analogy is trying to do here is to say "OK, so you don't think Hitler is absolutely evil?", not "OK, so you don't think Steve Jobs is Hitler?".

something something modern slavery