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by southernplaces7 1111 days ago
Just to be clear, one claiming (with an enormous amount evidence supporting the assertion) that the Nazis, history's most notorious white supremacist racists, were terrible and worse than anything that most of the allies represented (again excluding the USSR), makes one a white supremacist? Odd twist of already bad reasoning you've constructed.

Also worth noting that your book's highly debatable assertions cover a span of time stretching across 40 years and ending 20 years before the second world war even began. Compare these tenous arguments to the Nazis's well documented, direct responsibility for over 21 million deaths (including the 11 million killed in specific, targeted extermination campaigns), in just 5 years. Thus even if the book you reference were completely accurate, it would make the Nazis worse during the relevant time span.

None of these arguments have anything to do with me being a white supremacist. And idiotic ideological label now commonly assigned to anyone for absurd reasons because they don't agree with very specific agendas.

Your apparent overall spin on this strongly reminds of a general tendency among some people today to do everything possible to paint the western countries as the most terrible no matter the logical costs or the contortions of whataboutism that this involves. It's an old line of "reasoning" but one that has found fresh material with people making completely ridiculous arguments in defense of policies by countries like Russia and China, specifically because it means shitting on the west.