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  • The most depraved thing is that he said that Anne Frank was loved for being a pacifist. Anne Frank was not a pacifist, she was a child. Ethan claimed that Anne Frank did not fight against Nazis because she was against violence and said that if she had fought against Nazis, then he wouldn’t have supported her message. Anne Frank was 15 years old.

    I didn’t think I’d hear a worse take about Anne Frank than the “Anne Frank was a colonizer” nonsense from Black Hammer.



  • I don’t know how it is for you down under, but here in burgerland the North Vietnamese “Vietcong” have, for as long as I’ve been alive to remember, been portrayed as sadistic beasts who would capture our God fearing corn fed warfighters, torture them, and keep them in captivity for decades after the war ended. It’s very common to see MIA/POW flags here.

    At most, it’s considered a war that was pointless and wasted thousands of American lives; next to no one cares about the many more Vietnamese lives that were lost (to say nothing about those who were bombed in surrounding countries).


  • Echoing Z_Poster’s response to your earlier comment, western chauvinism doesn’t necessarily manifest as a belief that the imperial core countries are better than (semi)peripheral countries: it can also be the projection of how bad the (in this case) US is to all of its enemies, or believing false or wildly distorted narratives spread by the US about those countries.

    Regarding the videos you saw, what platforms were you seeing them on? Are they being shared by others who have (usually unconscious) western chauvinist biases? These are things worth considering when looking at information about enemies of western civilization, especially considering how virtually all mainstream social media platforms are owned by US companies.