McFaul: "One difference between Putin and Hitler is that Hitler didn't kill ethnic Germans, German-speaking people. Putin slaughters the very people he said he has come to liberate." -@MaddowBlog (☑️)

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · edit-2 3 years ago

McFaul: "One difference between Putin and Hitler is that Hitler didn't kill ethnic Germans, German-speaking people. Putin slaughters the very people he said he has come to liberate." -@MaddowBlog (☑️)

loathsome dongeater · 3 years ago

For some reason a lot of people feel an irresistible but completely necessary urge to contextualize Hitler which I don’t understand.

Mystery_Man · 3 years ago

Hitler is the baseline for “evil” to a lot of people. So everything is a comparison to Hitler, and how evil he was. Therefore when they say “even Hitler didn’t do ‘that’” what they’re trying to say is this current action by such and such person is even more evil than Hitler, who is of course the most evil person they can imagine.

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · edit-2 3 years ago

Maddow’s guest who said this is Michael McFaul (US Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014).

And he’s actually doubling down on this take: https://nitter.net/McFaul/status/1502640208692617217

https://web.archive.org/web/20220312144654/https://nitter.net/McFaul

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · edit-2 3 years ago

@MaddowBlog deleted the tweet, 10 hours later. The text is on archive.org and the video here

T34 [they/them] · 3 years ago

Scratch a liberal…

McFaul: "One difference between Putin and Hitler is that Hitler didn't kill ethnic Germans, German-speaking people. Putin slaughters the very people he said he has come to liberate." -@MaddowBlog (☑️)

McFaul: "One difference between Putin and Hitler is that Hitler didn't kill ethnic Germans, German-speaking people. Putin slaughters the very people he said he has come to liberate." -@MaddowBlog (☑️)

Deleted Maddow Tweet of Michael McFaul saying Hitler didn't kill German speakers