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Long dead Hitler and Goebbels are included too, but why stop there? Where's Joseph Stalin and Vlad the Impaler. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21083819
by gorwell 5y ago
Long dead Hitler and Goebbels are included too, but why stop there? Where's Joseph Stalin and Vlad the Impaler.
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- woodruffw 5y agoI'm guessing the list is based on political salience, not just how "bad" a person is. There probably aren't that many Vlad the Impaler apologists in the world, given that he's a functionally irrelevant person to be an apologist for. That's perhaps less the case for Stalin, but even Marxist-Leninists (seem) to make fewer excuses for Stalin-the-human than neo-Nazis do for Hitler-the-human.
- legostormtroopr 5y ago> There probably aren't that many Vlad the Impaler apologists in the world Literally the entire genre of Vampire literature disagrees.
- woodruffw 5y ago> Literally the entire genre of Vampire literature disagrees. I wasn't under the impression that there was any particular political message behind contemporary vampire fiction. Dracula itself is full of political messages, but probably not the ones you're thinking of[1]. [1]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3828327 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3828327
- lenkite 5y agoWhere is Mao ?
- adventured 5y agoExactly. Where's Che Guevara? Another of the monsters of the 20th century and still quite popular as an icon.
- petre 5y agoVlad the Impaler might have been overdoing things, but he did stuff that pretty much standard practice during the Middle Ages. Stalin on the other hand should totally be on that list.
- barbacoa 5y agoAnd don't get me started on the Romans. After the Romans captured Carthage they murdered 450,000 of its inhabitants. This makes Caesar's Place in Las Vegas very culturally problematic.
- andyxor 5y agoAnd how about the indigenous Inca & Maya people, nobody wants to see their human sacrifice culture celebrated on Facebook (Mel Gibson exposed the ugly truth in Apocalypto) And the Spanish Inquisition, Bluebeard, Ivan The Terrible, Robespierre, Lenin, Beelzebub and Donald J. Trump? The ban list is way too short.
- woodruffw 5y agoWith the exception of Lenin, I don't think contemporary political positions hold a great deal of water for any of these people. The list probably isn't an objective scale of atrocity, it's probably proportional to the volume of content that Facebook actually sees.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> And how about the indigenous Inca people, nobody wants to see their human sacrifice culture celebrated on Facebook (Mel Gibson exposed the ugly truth in Apocalypto) Apocalypto focussed on the Maya, who aren't even from the same continent as the Inca.
- andyxor 5y agoYou’re right I always mix them up, corrected
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- labster 5y agoHow does it make Caesar’s Palace problematic? The Punic Wars were long over by the time Julius Caesar was fighting Gauls. He literally overthrew the republic which caused that mass murder in Carthage a century earlier. Are you trying to be sarcastic? Satire is dead because no one can tell any more. The internet is so vast that at least a few people have your absurd opinion, possibly including you.
- robbedpeter 5y agoWhy not Marx and Mao? Could never understand why some murder memes are OK but others are not.