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Europe is quite unique in the scale of mass murder and secret police killings. Besides China, Europe dominates the statistics by two orders of magnitude.

• firesteelrain 1y ago
  Sideburns is arguing that it’s not just Europe. Not sure how far we take this back. Do we go back to the Huns? Anyways what we are all talking about is like a Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer. Not Nazi’s
  • ltbarcly3 1y ago
    So your argument is that sadistic sexual assults and murder are "different" when they happen in a camp vs a basement? Got it.
    • firesteelrain 1y ago
      That’s a clever soundbite, but it sidesteps the actual point: personal pathology and systemic violence aren’t the same thing. We don’t study Ted Bundy and Auschwitz guards in the same criminal justice textbooks for a reason. If you blur those lines, all you're doing is flattening history into a meme and not understanding it.
      • ltbarcly3 1y ago
        Textbooks are split for largely arbitrary reasons and convenience. Ted Bundy shared characteristics with many high ranking Gestapo leaders.
        • firesteelrain 1y ago
          Bundy may have shared traits with sadistic figures in regimes, but the systems enabling their violence weren’t the same. One acted independently, driven by compulsion. The others operated within state machinery built to normalize and industrialize killing. Lumping them together ignores scale, motive, and structure.