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Whitewashing The SS: The Attempt to Re-Write the History of Hitler’s Collaborators
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Is it really defacing to write the truth on an incorrectly marked monument?
It is more adding footnotes to historically inaccurate signage.
Whatever you call it, it's an improvement.
An improvement would be prosecution and hanged Nazis.
Something along the lines of truth and reconciliation for me, I'm not a fan of the carceral state (!abolition@slrpnk.net), and hanging octogenarians isn't a good look. You might be happy to know that Poland has requested extradition from Canada for the blighted heart that appeared in parliament, so his life is going to get a lot more complicated.
I'm glad his life is going to get more complicated. Depending on his actions during his time spent working as a Nazi, he might be deserving of punishment up to and including hanging. I'm all for the abolishment of the prison state, but that does not include Nazis. Intolerance has no place in society or society will eventually fall to those intolerant who gain power.
If he killed 100 civilians because they were Jewish or disabled or gay then moved to Canada with a clean slate do you think he should face no repercussions just because he got old?
I clearly did not say no repercussions. I agree we should be intolerant of intolerance, but Popper's dictum implies a de-escalation; calls for genocide should be responded to with censorship, perhaps violence, but not murder. Capital punishment has a finality that requires perfection of clearly imperfect human justice. Corpses don't reflect, regret, or reparate.
I'm merely asserting a position. I'm not that invested in the fate of a Nazi when people who have done less have received worse, nothing I say will have any effect on the outcome, and the source of your wrath is just.