Thread:Mesektet/@comment-24469175-20180305001935/@comment-3581997-20180601193819

I believe I do. You see Nazis have been programmed into everyone's heads as bad by media, Video-games, Film, Animation, Nazis bad. However since no one wants to talk about the really bad stuff they did, the Holocaust has become a background event. This has been happening more and more and more. This has lead to desensitization to the event as being important all - people remember now is Nazis bad, but since no-one who invokes the Nazi trope also invokes memories of people being rounded up and gassed, burned, operated on, processed like cows in a slaughterhouse, and instead the Nazis are associated with is just starting World War II. They have just become the edgy War soldier guys and so the really grimy bits of that whole experience either slip people's mind or lose their importance. I suspect, and I could be wrong here, you were just linking what you saw as something bad you heard about to a political view you had. Which happens, I get it. I will however correct that desensitization whenever I come across it.

Think of it like Sephiroth, he became a glam character to the point people are writing fan-fiction about how bad he had it growing up or how awesome he was or how he was just brainwashed by Jenova and he is really just a misunderstood anti-hero, and no one seems to remember, "hey, remember that time he burned a town down, or slaughtered man in-front of his daughter?". Same thing - media desensitization. This is actually how brainwashing works by the way, you overwhelm someone with slanted information about an event everyone should know, until that new slanted data becomes the reality. Whether it is history, videogames, the second amendment or even religion I would encourage you to every once and a while detach yourself from the preconceived talking points an go back to the original source material.