One in five Americans do not think Hitler was all bad: Poll

Judging by the latest election, the number seams a lot higher, more like three in five

Fools never see evil until its at their door.

Hitler was nothing without the NSDAP and the fascist movement.

There were 915,000 Germans in the Waffen-SS.

In case you don't remember, what we're talking about here:

It's like watching a horror movie. You know the killer is in the basement, yet people go and have a look while the audience knows what's going to happen. A classic fuck around and find out.

Hitler had one good idea. Right at the end when he decided to shoot himself.

This is how hitler came to power.

That's not fair phrasing and will lead to high numbers.

Hitler wasn't "all" bad technically, he was just so bad that the good shouldn't matter at all. Pushing forward technology (VW Beetle, Autobahn) should is no way be justified by genocide (obviously).

A better question would have been something like "do you like Hitler overall?"

What a terrible question. He was an awful person but obviously nobody is all bad.

I sometimes fear that
people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
worn by grotesques and monsters
as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.

Fascism arrives as your friend.
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you...

It doesn't walk in saying,
"Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."

--Michael Rosen.

Ok, I get it, but we really should avoid looking at things/people like Adolfy as black or white - that just makes it a meme & loses actual historical/lecture value.

With Hitler being a one-dimensional idea/meme/brand instead of a human (supported by humans with rational human causes) I'm afraid we are doomed to repeat the same cycle of mistakes.

What I'm saying is that instead of education we have strong propaganda (after a specific date) that taught us this Hitler brand was just & only bad, like it was a spontaneous event. Instead of a full person & a nation (again full of actual people) with voting rights in irl situations.
And propaganda isn't free, it's financially fueled, which means it wants something in return.

Monsters are humans. We need to remember that, despite what we are preached.

We've got to stop talking about "if" and "when."

It's NOW. This is happening. We are watching the rise of the next Hitler, now, live, today. This isn't hypothetical anymore - yesterday just gave them carte blanche to go full stormtroopers.

At this point, all of our conversations need to be about how we stay safe in the wake.

We know, they just voted for him.

Definitely a lot more than that based on this election.

More than one in five apparently.

well, one thing i'll say in his favour: he did kill hitler.

(credit: jimmy carr)

Kind of a loaded question to include the word "all" but I understand the lack of faith or respect for the USA right about now.

Well now he's going to be president.

Related: we've all heard the stories of a time traveler going back to kill Hitler before his rise to power. One common theme in almost all those stories is that the attempt fails, that's why history is as we remember. This morning has me thinking that maybe time travel was involved in a couple of Trump assassination attempts.

He wasn't "all bad", he apparently was very good with animals, like his dog Blondie. He was a vegetarian. And that's probably everything which wasn't bad. For the rest it's all completely fucked up bad. No doubt about it.

Oh and I just remembered he was very good at giving directions. "were do I need to go?" "Take the third reich"

Apparently Hitler had a dog. So maybe reexamine your beliefs if you think dogs are good judges of character lol.

Obviously, Hitler even gave credit to Jim Crow policies as being an inspiration for his generic policies.

The dixiecrats aren't ashamed of that, game recognizes game.

I mean he did kill Hitler, that's got to count for something.

I'm completely against his policies and actions for obvious reasons. I hate Nazis.

Still, I could probably be convinced to say that he wasn't 100% bad in every possible way.

Even the most evil people are complex human beings. There may be something good inside them at some point to some person, etc.

"All" is a very powerful word.

23 percent of respondents said Hitler was a "good person or an equally good and bad person" or "a bad person who did some good things," data from YouGov showed.

What a bullshit poll. So basically anyone who recognizes he cared for a dog is seen as liking Hitler.

Anyone who said otherwise doesn't understand spectrums and is generally using black and white thinking, a sign of mental illness

After last night, you don't have to prove we're dumb bastards to me.

He did promise the masses a family land and a job. The same thing that every politician ever has promised.

I’m pretty sure we know now that that number is a lot more than we originally thought.

This is what happens when you start to dismantle the education system. We can thank Reagan and the Bushes for that.

It has just happened. The liberty aura surrounding America has been broken.

U.S. opinion on the Nazi dictator remains more negative that it was at the height of World War II, when 25 percent of Americans said his ideas were correct

That's pretty surprising, you'd think when they were fighting him they'd hate him most

Sure, Hitler passed some of the first anti-smoking laws.

That doesn’t excuse all the other awful awful things he did.

Also his anti smoking laws failed as the war went on longer and longer.

That's crazy wtf.

Say what want- I certainly do- Hitler did at least one good thing.

(he offed himself. )

(now if only the OrangeWish Fuhrer would do the same.)

And I'm guessing none of those Americans have had relatives who were actually living during WWII.

That's better than expected. Or is it that low because the rest thinks he was actually great?

He wasn't. He killed Hitler after all

I mean he was right about some things. Course extremely few people are wrong about those things but every now and then simple arithmetic trips people up

Pretty sure this election proves it's way more than one in five.

He lost the war, and died committing suicide in a bunker as his capital city was under siege being demolished.

Seems like we could just focus on those facts to show how going like Hitler ends up.

1 in 5 cant see that far behind them.

Yikes. Very troubling.

They're about to find out.

One in five Americans is the monster...mean it's more than that I guess but ugh

When you look into Hitler with a kind of Devil's Advocate-ish no pre-bias approach, certainly some good ideas. Was for workers, abortion, prostitution, national healthcare, good minimum wages, women's rights,... But there's just some... just a few... a handful, if you will, that were maybe...maaaybe what could be considered psychopathic monstrously batshit insane ideas.

But, hey, plenty of people love the Christian god, and Hitler is somewhere between that guy and a Powerpuff girl, so no surprises for me.

The power of charisma over those apathetic to self-thinking.

Edit: Apparently we have a lot of God-fearing neo-Nazis here! Sorry, it was a joke, I'll just leave. No need to try track me down.

hides under the floorboards They'll never look here!

He did great things.

The problem is that he only did them for people he liked. And he did TERRIBLE things to the people he didn't like.